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    Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon is a busy public space that serves as the city's living room. It hosts over 300 programmed events each year in its central red brick amphitheater and surrounding areas, attracting a diverse range of people. Although designed for events, the square also functions as a comfortable public space for sitting, meeting, and eating with walls, stairs and planters incorporated to provide additional informal seating. The infrastructure for events is built directly into the square's design.

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    Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon is a busy public space that serves as the city's living room. It hosts over 300 programmed events each year in its central red brick amphitheater and surrounding areas, attracting a diverse range of people. Although designed for events, the square also functions as a comfortable public space for sitting, meeting, and eating with walls, stairs and planters incorporated to provide additional informal seating. The infrastructure for events is built directly into the square's design.

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    Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon is a busy public space that serves as the city's living room. It hosts over 300 programmed events each year in its central red brick amphitheater and surrounding areas, attracting a diverse range of people. Although designed for events, the square also functions as a comfortable public space for sitting, meeting, and eating with walls, stairs and planters incorporated to provide additional informal seating. The infrastructure for events is built directly into the square's design.

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    temporality: seasonal

    ACTIVITY ASPECTS
    One of his specific suggestions was to have loose seating as
    Bryant Park
    well as fixed benches,

    Pioneer Courthouse Square -Portland- A retractable or temporary stage

    temporality : based on activity


    referred to as a city’s living room’ has evidently found a TEMPORALITY ASPECTS
    successful recipe for programming and activation. Similar to
    the living room in a family home, Pioneer Courthouse Square indulging different variation in a daily aspect
    provides Portlanders with a place to gather, celebrate, socialize MANEK CHOWK
    functions as a vegetable market in the morning and a
    or relax. This diversity of activity is what makes the jewellery market in the afternoon and food stalls that start to
    emerge around 9:30 in the evening and continue till late
    Square a place of pride and a hub of community night, with various local street snacks
    programming. Pioneer Courthouse Square is a busy and CASE STUDIES
    bustling place. According to

    It is activated by more than 300 programmed event days diversity of uses such as walking, resting (sitting on a bench),
    every year by a diverse roster of events, organizations and Emir Abd El Kader square eating, playing, lingering (standing and admiring), meeting
    activities. and foot traffic
    The red brick amphitheatre
    provides ample seating with perfect points for any
    entertainment or events that might be occurring in the central
    square. In this sense, the infrastructure for events is built
    right into the square itself.
    DESIGN ASPECTS
    Although the Square was designed to accommodate a wide
    variety of public events, it also functions as a comfortable
    place to sit, meet friends, or enjoy an outdoor lunch. Walls,
    stairs, planters, and public art that are installed in the square
    are all designed to provide additional seating. Sunset Triangle Plaza - Los Angeles, CA

    The most striking feature of the public plaza is the bright


    green and yellow polka dot pattern painted onto the street.
    The 11,000

    square-foot space includes cafe tables, chairs and umbrellas.


    The furnishings were made deliberately movable to allow
    people to customize and maximize the utility of the plaza.

    Bicycle parking racks have been installed at the east end of


    the plaza, with basketball hoops positioned on the west side.
    The perimeter of the plaza is lined with potted planters, which
    act as bollards to demarcate the pedestrian space

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