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Technocraft: Community Fabrication in Rainier Beach
(2013-02-25)The shift toward personal digital fabrication is rooted in access and technology. As access has grown, a movement has formed using digital fabrication technologies to "hack" or modify mass produced goods, which has united ... -
Temporal Belonging
This thesis explores the potential relationship between temporary architecture and belonging. It poses the question of whether design can accept the transient nature of humans and their surrounding environment while ... -
Terminal Vacancies in the Industrial Void : A Combined District Heating Power Plant and Public Bath in the Port of Tacoma
This thesis contends that industrial infrastructure can transcend its prescribed function as raw utility and offer the extension of a public amenity for the city. The working waterfront is a celebrated ideal by the city ... -
TERMINAL VACANCIES IN THE INDUSTRIAL VOID : A Combined District Heating Power Plant and Public Bath in the Port of Tacoma
This thesis contends that industrial infrastructure can transcend its prescribed function as raw utility and offer the extension of a public amenity for the city. The working waterfront is a celebrated ideal by the city ... -
Textiles and Architecture | Woven into Dimensions of Temporality, Craft, Drapery, and Technology
Textiles play an important, but often unacknowledged role in architecture. They have been closely associated with flexibility, texture, weaving, impermanence, moldability, mobility, lightness, and wrapping. However, textiles ... -
THE 8TH KINGDOM: Biomimicry as a systems lens for organic architecture in Methow Valley, Washington
Thinking outside of the (literal) box, would our world look like if the design of the built environment was predicated upon the assumption that a building is a living thing? We say it has bones and a skin. It consumes, ... -
The Architecture of Human Composting
University of Washington Abstract The Architecture of Human Composting Will Devault-Weaver Chairs of the Supervisory Committee: Bob Mugerauer Tyler Sprague Architecture The much-anticipated arrival of the new funerary ... -
The Carcass and The Balloon: Reinterpreting the Hanford Landscape through Mapping and Measure.
As a unique geography of irradiated space, the Hanford Reach in Washington State has been measured in every way conceived by modern science and bureaucracy. This former military site has been mapped in a variety of ways, ... -
THE CONNECTING LINE: Re-Imagining the Train's Identity in Montana's Historic Railroad Towns
This thesis proposes that Montana towns need to establish new, healthier relationships between the railroad corridors and the communities they divide. Once the primary mode of transportation for goods and people, the ... -
The Contemporary Public Market: A Sustainable Design Approach to Low-Cost Operating Public Markets in Oman
Attempts to design public markets in Oman failed to capture the social and cultural essence of historical markets in the region. The versatility of use and utilization of site resources in public markets diminished due to ... -
The Convergent Workplace: A Bamboo Factory in Aberdeen, Washington
Since the Industrial Revolution, the relationship between human and work, landscape and production, has shifted immensely. The factory has reflected this shift in practice and in built form. The theorist Hannah Arendt ... -
The Dove Project: Architecture for Activism
Freedom of expression is fundamental to our daily lives because the act of it awakens people who participate and witness it. It has the power to create positive change because of the message it delivers. Many countries are ... -
The Fluid City | The Integration of Architecture and Urban Design to Reconnect the City of Erie to its Post-Industrial Waterfront and the Temporal Environment Beyond
As a physical edge, urban waterfronts have historically provided both margins and thresholds between cities and nature. As the foundation of transportation, trade, and industry, America’s ports led to growth and prosperity ... -
The Forest Classroom: An Integrated Re-Imagining of Restorative Elementary School Environments in the Pacific Northwest.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the unpreparedness of most elementary schools in the United States to cope with major climate, health, and wellness crises. The pandemic has heightened stress levels among educators and ... -
The Futures of Flight
This thesis contends that imagination and visions of the future have been present throughout the history of human flight. Events of the past have continuously changed perceptions of possibility in flight and have subsequently ... -
The Impact of Biophilia in Elementary Schools: A Study of Student Health and Well-being
This design research thesis explores questions in design methodology, provides insights on how to conduct design research, and ultimately serves to ignite a productive conversation between designers, teachers, administrators, ... -
The Lie that Tells a Truth
The thesis begins by establishing a historical context for discourse surrounding Truth in architecture; highlighting, specifically, a reliance on vision. Vision, through its insistence on objectivity, creates the expectation ... -
The Ruin: History as a Labyrinth
As one of the oldest European cities, Berlin has many historically significant buildings. Due to heavy bombardment during World War II, many of those historical architectural remains are present in ruined condition today. ... -
The Sanctuary of the Mind
University of Washington Abstract The Sanctuary of the Mind Pardis Moinzadeh Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Affiliate Assistant Professor, David Strauss A contemplative environment at the University of Washington ... -
The Seattle Public Bathhouse
As the city’s population grows and densifies, it is increasingly important to preserve public space. Seattle and its surrounding context are rich with waterfront views and access potential. Sited on the shoreline of inner ...