Vancouvercenter is a mixed-use project in the heart of downtown Vancouver, Washington housing retail, office space, and for-sale condos. Vancouvercenter sits on a public underground garage that spans the two city blocks connecting a major public park to the primary transit center. The garage roof accommodates a public plaza, a promenade, and two private gardens and is divided into three zones. The north garden has a formal architectural structure and uses the landscape in a free form planting pattern. The plaza is at the midpoint of the promenade serves as the ‘living room’ of the project. The south garden has informal structures using natural rock outcroppings as the architectural elements. The stadium steps and granite benches provide formal seating in the public areas while lawns and raised planting bed walls provide informal seating areas in the private gardens. The “bubbler fountain” creates quiet ambient noise to mask the street traffic as well as adding visual interested and a summer cooling effect.

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