Womens shelter design

Oregon has the second highest rate of homelessness in the country. To help address this, Rose Haven — Portland’s only community day shelter for women and children — was in need of a larger facility to better serve the unhoused in the community. Gensler donated its services to design Rose Haven’s new 10,500-square-foot space, a facility three times the size of its previous footprint, that comprises its day shelter and community center.

- by Dana Johnson

“This project creates a domestic environment with architecture that is sympathetic and very thoughtful in terms of daylighting, proportional scale, and materiality.”— Christiana Moss, FAIA Location AustinClient City of AustinArchitect...

In Seattle, Amazon is now sharing an eight-story building with a homeless shelter serving 200 people. [Photo: courtesy Mary’s Place]

One of the design proposals put forth for the CrossRoads House Homeless Shelter stipulated the use of surplus cargo containers as the main structural and spatial elements. Modular, readily available on the seacoast, cost efficient, and exceptionally quick…

A new generation of shelters is changing the way women and children recover from abusive environments.

Image 6 of 12 from gallery of Design for Homeless Shelter in San Luis Obispo Awarded. © Gwynne Pugh Urban Studio & garcia architecture + design

Completed in 2022 in Loni [B.K.], India. Images by Hemant Patil. Thought: An idea to build a place to accommodate destitute and women in need under a shelter will help them to grow and nurture with pride and...

Putting plants to soil has an expansive tradition in our region, one of the world's most fertile valleys.

Stones and books are obsessions for Pedro Reyes. And both feature prominently in what this internationally acclaimed artist affectionately calls his “1980’s monstrosity,” a brutalist-inspired Mexico City house that he and his wife, fashion designer Carla Fernández, renovated for themselves and their two young children.