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1. Create a place that embodies the many meanings of longhouse in Native American cultures 2. Create a place that expresses the essential cultural values of welcome and hospitality, community, and learning of the Willamette Valley Native American communities and the Native American communities of Oregon 3. Create a place that references the historic form, structure, and organizational patterns in dwellings of Native Americans of the Willamette Valley and the Northwest Coast 4. Provide the university with an exemplary facility, diverse in uses and spaces, which meets the functional and programmatic requirements, is efficient and cost effective, is responsive to existing and future campus development patterns, and which promotes active interaction between the University of Oregon community, the Eugene community, the Native American community, and indigenous peoples of many cultures |
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From meetings, conversations, and research we have attempted to
identify and organize essential Native American cultural values
and activities that bring form and name to the longhouse spaces.
These are organized into three areas. 
Within traditional West Coast Native American communities, the
core of relationships is the concept of welcome and hospitality.
Welcome honors another. Welcome presents hospitality in all matters.
The idea of welcoming is the substance of belonging. 
Of paramount importance to the Native People is community. Community
is active participation and sharing in large groups of people.
Community expresses who native people are and celebrates life
lessons in dance, song and storytelling, food, games, and spirituality
with others. From infants to elders, each individual's special
qualities contribute to the community. 
From study, mentoring, and teaching comes learning, and there
is strength in knowledge. With the resource of knowledge, learning
is put to work to serve the community, to preserve the culture.
The design principles of the cultural values and patterns of native
historic dwellings were used to establish the following project
goals: