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Brundlund Slotspark: A Proposal for a Culture Park in Aabenraa, Denmark
This thesis proposes a culture park in Aabenraa, a small city in the south of Denmark. Today Aabenraa faces many challenges: a high relocation rate, competition from big cities, and cultural institutions that need to be ... -
Building as a Pedagogy, Rural School on Ridge of Loess Plateau
New schools in rural China often-time are driven by blind pursuit of modernity and executed by methods that diminish human dignity, erode human well-being, disconnect human with nature, local community and cultural tradition. ... -
Building Better Schools: A New Model for Autism Inclusion in Seattle
A growing number of children in the United States are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and receive education within mainstream public schools. While research indicates that most special education classrooms ... -
Building Community, Building Capacity: Revitalization Through Reuse
(2012-09-13)This thesis proposes the redevelopment of a supermarket site at the center of the Rainier Beach Urban Village at the intersection of Rainier Avenue South and South Henderson Street in Seattle Washington, reusing the existing ... -
Building Futures: Framework for the Contemporary Native School
Building Futures is a response to the social, cultural, and environmental challenges facing Native tribes of the Southwest, with the goal of addressing adverse impacts on Native youth and their schools. The proposal argues ... -
Building in Craft: A Community Founded and Sustained with Industry
This thesis integrates research of factory-based production and design and building with heavy-timber into the composition of a production facility that serves as a generator and resource for a neighborhood. The “factory”, ... -
Building Language: A Traditional Andean Language Center In Ollantaytambo, Cuzco, Peru
(2014-02-24)This thesis conceives of language as the foundation of culture, and explores the creation of a Native Andean Language Center in Cuzco, Peru, as a means of combatting homogenization, pastiche, and social denigration in ... -
Building Out of Place
The Skagit River Delta is defined by agrarian culture and farming’s relationship to the land. However, history shows the recurrence of extreme flooding, and campaigns of consolidation have embedded a pattern of separation: ... -
Built Lens: Designing Environmental Engagement on Flathead Lake
(2014-04-30)This thesis explores the capacity of the built environment to serve as a lens in mediating man's relationship with the relatively un-built environment at a site located on Flathead Lake. Our presence on Flathead Lake in ... -
Burning Village: Deployable, Scalable, Open Source Camp Infrastructure for Burning Man
Burning Man Camps are wildly variable, highly unpredictable, and extremely individualized, temporary autonomous communities existing within the larger decentralized network that is Burning Man. However, this chaotic network ... -
(by)Metrics (by)Design: Building for Endurance
(2013-04-17)University of Washington Master's Thesis Abstract (by)Metrics (by)Design: Building for Endurance David Ronald Fish Chair of Supervisory Committee: Asst. Professor Kathrina Simonen, Chair Department of Architecture College ... -
Castles In Air - A Burke Avenue Story
In the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, dwelling, a state of peace in one’s surrounding, is not simply facilitated by, but rather, contingent on architecture itself. Heidegger, though, plainly states that not all architecture ... -
Catalytic Parking: Creating new possibilities in an integrated suburban parking garage
Parking garages are ubiquitous and indispensable to modern suburban life, yet they are one of the most unpopular and criticized building types. Though important places of arrival and departure, movement and transition, ... -
Catalytic Urbanism: Encouraging Urban Vitality in Spokane, Washington Through Modular Development
(2013-04-17)By the early 1960's Spokane, Washington's downtown, which had ballooned rapidly with railroad expansion, was faced with a downtown core that was underutilized, dilapidated, and blighted. In a citywide effort to restore the ... -
Cathedrals of Power: Re-energizing Historic Power Systems
By providing a regional resource, electric power systems have provided urban environments unprecedented means for growth and expansion from the late 1800’s to 1930’s, as discussed by Thomas Hughes, in Networks of Power. ... -
CENTER FOR BIRD REHABILITATION AND PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE UNION BAY NATURAL AREA
Bird populations around the Puget Sound are increasingly threatened by habitat loss due to the urban development and growth of Seattle. Urban development not only destroys natural habitats, but also creates a new, lethal ... -
Changing Habits: a think tank for Catholic women religious
(2013-04-17)Part think tank, part headquarters, part social, and part political, this thesis exemplifies the evolving position of the church in today's fluctuating society. Many religious and lay people alike are not only open to ... -
Chimera Obscura: wayfinding vestiges in rural Iceland
University of Washington Abstract Chimera Obscura: wayfinding vestiges in rural Iceland Jena Maureen Restad Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Kimo Griggs, Associate Professor Architecture As tourists, we travel to learn, ... -
Choreographing Urban Habitation: Strategies for Enhancing Public Space in the City
The basis of this thesis is the perceived need for more spaces that generate human scale and facilitate opportunities for individual reflection and social interaction in the public realm of the city. It proposes the design ... -
Chronotopia: A Festival for a Pluralist Public Realm
As cities continue to densify and are driven by late capitalist motivations, the public realm is shrinking. In areas of the urban realm where privatization has historically made its marks, an exploration of permanent and ...