Grace Peck Terrace

The renovation of Grace Peck Terrace not only improved conditions in the building and reduced operating costs but also enhanced the livability for residents, ensuring it can remain an affordable housing community for years to come.

Project Details

Location

Portland, OR

Client

Home Forward

Year Completed

2024

Project Size

71,170 sq. ft.
95 units

Land Recognition

We have a responsibility to not only acknowledge but also elevate Native communities and their needs. This project sits in the area currently known as Portland, which encompasses the traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River.

Educating ourselves is an important action. We encourage you to explore the stories of these communities through Native-led resources like David G. Lewis, PhD’s The Quartux Journal and Leading with Tradition.

Reinvigorating Affordable Housing Across Portland

Holst has worked with Home Forward on renovating and preserving its portfolio of existing affordable housing buildings, with a particular focus on those serving our community’s most vulnerable populations. Grace Peck Terrace, Holst’s fifth renovation, provides 95 units of affordable housing to people 62 and over and people with disabilities.

Essential Improvements

Grace Peck Terrace is a six-story building located in Portland’s historic Irvington neighborhood. The building needed to be renovated to address significant maintenance issues in addition to aesthetic upgrades. Holst carefully selected beautiful and durable materials that would complement the surrounding neighborhood and ensure the building’s longevity. Improvements were also made to entries, the community space, and units.

A New Neighborhood Face

Cool, calming colors are layered vertically into the façade, combining with the long ribbon windows to weave a design complementary to the historic neighborhood. A playful combination of glass, concrete, and vibrant blue metal panels is balanced by large monolithic end walls which host their own intrinsic pattern and color variation.

Enhanced Community Spaces

The renovated lobby opens up to the community room, which features a variety of seating options, activities, and a coffee bar for residents. Outside seating areas provide access to nature and additional space for residents to gather and connect.

Green Space

Lush landscaping roots the building in its context and provided a framework for arranging the outdoor seating zones.

Grace Peck Terrace | Front exterior before the renovation
Grace Peck Terrace | Main entrance before the renovation
Grace Peck Terrace | Main entrance after the renovation
Grace Peck Terrace | Lobby before the renovation
Grace Peck Terrace | Lobby after the renovation
Grace Peck Terrace | View from the lobby looking to the community room before the renovation
Grace Peck Terrace | View from the lobby looking to the community room after the renovation
Grace Peck Terrace | Community room before the renovation
Grace Peck Terrace | Community room after the renovation
Grace Peck Terrace | Communal kitchen before the renovation
Grace Peck Terrace | Communal kitchen after renovation
Grace Peck Terrace | Unit kitchen before renovation
Grace Peck Terrace | Unit kitchen after the renovation
Grace Peck Terrace | Back exterior before the renovation
Grace Peck Terrace | Back exterior before the renovation

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