The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) attracts over 400,000 visitors annually who attend award-winning plays and productions. The Bricks courtyard is the first impression for guests travelling to Ashland as they enjoy outdoor “Green Show” performances, collect tickets, and interact with other patrons and performers. The redesign, sparked by accessibility issues, provides universal accessibility with areas for wheelchairs to seamlessly integrate with performance seating. Ashland’s logging origins served as design inspiration for the new plaza with log seating columns that collide and cascade to frame the sloped landscape. When not hosting performances, the Bricks functions as an urban park.

Work completed at Walker Macy while Derek Hoetmer was employed as a landscape designer.

©Oregon Shakespeare Festival ©Walker Macy ©Built Work Photography

LOCATION / Ashland, OR

CLIENT / Oregon Shakespeare Festival

DATE / 2016

TEAM / Hacker Architects

PRESS

“Oregon Shakespeare Festival Courtyard, General Design Award,” wasla.org. 2021.

“Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s New Green Show Courtyard and Stage,” Janet Eastman. OregonLive.com. 16 June 2017.

“Oregon Shakespeare Festival Redesigns Hazardous Brick Courtyard,” David Stabler. OregonLive.com. 8 January 2015.