The Foundation for Youth Resiliency and Engagement (FYRE) is an innovative grassroots organization serving young people 12-24 across Okanogan County, Washington. FYRE’s services include educational advocacy, supporting young parents, increasing accessibility to whole-person health services, and providing referrals and resources to youth experiencing homelessness and exploitation.

CAST is designing a residential shelter providing emergency and transitional housing for homeless youth. Located adjacent to FYRE’s existing building, the facility will also include various support functions such as shared cooking and social spaces, and intake/counseling offices. FYRE’s Village will serve several populations, such as expecting mothers and LGBTQ+ individuals. The design must accommodate complex security and licensing requirements, given the wide age range served by FYRE (ages 12-24) and length of stay (overnight to 24 months).

FYRE Village is designed to Washington’s Evergreen Sustainable Design Standard (ESDS).

TEAM
Foundation for Youth Resiliency and Engagement (FYRE) – owner www.okfyre.org
Office of Rural & Farmworker Housing – developer
CAST – architect
RLB – cost estimating
NCW Land Surveying – survey

Collaborating with Berger Partnership, we built on a vision to redevelop this underutilized park to take advantage of its spectacular location and transform it into a regional asset.

The intent was to revamp a few dilapidated baseball fields with additional features to encourage use by a wider audience. The big move is an overlook deck that stretches towards the Chelan dam, gorge, and surrounding mountains and offers elevated views back towards the baseball diamonds.

An overlook was designed to provide a view of the dam and the surrounding mountains that had been unavailable to the public. We combined functions whenever possible, with the deck also serving as a roof to the gathering space below, stacked basalt seating relating to the surrounding geology, and finally, a sloping lawn that adds minor league stadium-style seating looking over the baseball fields. The roofs of the dugouts and central concession station also perform double duty as extended shade platforms to provide weather protection to visitors.

Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe’s Hatchery & Beach Shelter Construction Progress

Kingston, Washington

The new building will house office and utility space for the @portgamblesklallams salmon hatchery program and a separate open-air structure used by the Tribe’s commercial fishing operations.

Salmon hatchery operations require a constant flow of clean streamwater. The project includes a new earthen dam and water intake structure in the adjacent ravine that provides reliable flow at a constant pressure. Downstream, equipment housed within the building filters the water and regulates its oxygen content before supplying it to the indoor incubation tanks and outdoor fish runs.

Salmon fishing is central to the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe’s traditional identity and its contemporary outlook. This project seeks to recognize the cultural importance of both the place—a focal point of their history—and the program, while providing solutions to allow these activities to flourish in the 21st century. 

Learn more about the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe.

TEAM
Architect: CAST architecture
Contractor: www.paccivil.com
Geo-tech: Robinson Noble
Structural: SSF
MEP: Glumac
Civil: Cannon
Landscape Architect: Pacific Landscape Architecture
Archeologist: Willamette Cultural Resources
Survey: AES Consultants
Intake System Engineer: Kleinschmidt Group
Specifications: Applied Building Information
Windows: @jeldwenusa  www.dahlglass.com

See more about the Hatchery project here.