Indigo Place
Location: Eugene, OR | Completion Date: 2008
Indigo Place is a four-story housing project near the University of Oregon. It contains six two-story units, arranged by stacking three five-bedroom units over three four-bedroom units. Key features include balconies, high ceilings and durable finishes, intended to create a desirable, upscale, urban-living experience for students.
The highly articulated exterior is clad with durable, low-maintenance materials that use their unique color and texture to form a balanced composition. With amenities such as private balconies and entrances, vaulted ceilings, and skillfully crafted public spaces flooded with natural light, Indigo Place is an excellent example of a high-density infill housing project that serves as a local model for sustainable multi-family housing.
Located on a corner lot, the building has large windows that allow daylight to penetrate deep into all of the units, minimizing the need for electric lighting and providing a strong connection to the outdoors. Indigo Place has achieved the Silver Level in the Earth Advantage Program, administered locally by the Eugene Water and Electric Board. Earth Advantage is a rigorous program that ensures that buildings are built with rapidly renewable, recycled and recyclable materials, run efficiently, and do not release harmful gasses to inhabitants.
In September 2009, Indigo Place was awarded the Colleague’s Choice First Place Award for Multi-family Architecture by the AIA Southwest Oregon Chapter.