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Land and Water: Ecological Education Center at Seattle Waterfront
Since the mid-21st century, the urban waterfronts have become a fertile land for mixeduse development. Being the front porch of the city, these waterfronts are often sites of urban spectacles that have sought to reactivate ... -
Landscapes of Fulfillment: Re-examining Infrastructures for E-Commerce Distribution in Los Angeles
The logistical infrastructures supporting the transport and distribution of consumer goods has created a disjuncture in the urban landscape, severing the local space of the city from the space of global product flows. ... -
Landscapes of Light: An Investigation of Light-driven Forms in Northern Climates and Cultures
This is a study of light: an investigation into the ability of light to not only illuminate, but also to awaken a deeper sense of the existence of the natural world. Universally, light is an essential aspect of life: it ... -
Latent Realities: Uncovering the Unseen at the Top of Denmark
The difficulty in relating architecture to place lies in the necessity to respond comprehensively to place in spite of the fact that the nature of place is never completely apparent to the observer. There exist certain ... -
Layers of Accumulation: Reusing a Contaminated Industrial Waterfront on Rock Bay, B.C.
In the process of reusing urban industrial waterfronts, large remediation efforts are almost always necessary because of the high content of toxic material produced through industrial processes. These post-industrial sites ... -
Learn to Work: A Job Corps Magnet Program in Seattle
The United States is dealing with a skilled labor shortage. Many factors contribute this but ultimately, the conclusion is that it stems from three main factors: the lack of ready to work skills from current graduates, ... -
Liberating Rivers
Holistic approaches suggest that a resilient way to manage rivers is by giving them enough room to fulfill their hydrogeomorphological processes. In the Pacific Northwest, a major barrier to the implementation of holistic ... -
Lightbox: Dynamic Daylighting in a Portable Gallery System
(2012-05-31)This thesis explores the qualities of daylight in a portable gallery environment by suggesting alternatives for how light interacts with art. Daylight is manipulated through a dynamic shading system to generate multiple ... -
Lily Pad Urbanism: Reimagining Seattle's Floating Home Community
Today Seattle’s floating home community’s hinder public water access, and are regarded as a non-preferred use of shoreline environments. This urban condition has caused decline of the floating community during the late ... -
Lineages: An inter-generational approach to the urban environment
(2014-04-30)Waste of the material and social environments defines North America's urban centers, promoting a monoculture of buildings and people. Neighborhoods are steadily homogenized; urban residents represent a narrow segment of ... -
Liquidated Urbanism: Found Condition and Exploited Conflict
This thesis hypothesizes that large-scale commercial sites throughout the world are well-positioned to be assets for cities and communities in the future. The condition of a large-scale commercial space standing where a ... -
little House on the Alley: Seeking an Ethic of Development for DADUs in Seattle
(2014-02-24)This thesis explores ways in which Detached Accessory Dwelling Units (DADUs) can help transform residential alleyways into vibrant sub-places by following an ethic of development that promotes socially engaging, economically ... -
Live I Work I Grow: Integrating Food Production into a Cooperative Housing Project
With the continued growth of the world’s urban population, the demand for accessible food sources increases significantly. Over half of the global population now lives in urban areas, and projected to increase exponentially. ... -
Live-work/Live-Learn/Live-Play: An Urban Village for Musicians Across Generations
In the 21st century, increasing costs of higher education and costs of living in cities yields a tumultuous landscape for young Americans trying to find their way. While formal education was once the backbone of the ... -
Living in the City through Female Fashion
This thesis analyzes an initial urban visit throughout the iconic French city of Paris, and uses the methodology of graphical collage to further unravel the individually derived “living” experience accumulated within the ... -
Living Laboratory: A circular framework for North Seattle Community College
This thesis proposes North Seattle College as a living laboratory to explore the future of sustainable development at the district scale. Incorporating principles of circular cities, regenerative design, and the Water-Food-Energy ... -
LIVING ON THE GO / a dwelling solution for nomadic workers
Despite being freed from physical ownership due to the development of the internet, our lifestyles are still housed in the same typology of housing and workplace. If our lifestyles have shifted, should we rethink our ... -
Locus Sacer & Nordic Archetypes: architectural experiences through an existential, collective memory
This thesis explores various Nordic archetypes in the architectural and landscape designs of Swedish modernists, such as Sigurd Lewerentz, Erik Gunnar Asplund, and Peter Celsing. Applying the ideas of existentialist and ... -
Lost Lake Park: Perceiving Site History through a Recreation Landscape on Lake Union
(2012-05-31)This thesis project is an adaptation of a site on one of Seattle's former working waterfronts, Lake Union. Located on the lake's eastern shore, the site was recently vacated, providing an opportunity to create a path and ...