TreeHouse is a 7-story multi-family apartment building on Marquam Hill adjacent to the consolidated 15,000 employee medical campus of Oregon Health & Science University, VA Medical Center, and Shriner’s Hospital. The inspiration for the project draws from the area’s rich heritage as a man-made environment of second growth trees envisioned as an acropolis on the hill above the City. TreeHouse is intended to live within the natural environment and is focused on the surrounding forest and connections to the existing trails and pedestrian networks. Its configuration provides an unbiased building orientation embedded in the forest - where residents are a part of the heart and energy of the medical complex but find respite in nature.