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During any given night of the year, there are more than 4500 people unsheltered, homeless in Seattle. In most cities across the US, homeless counts are declining, but not here. We have the 4th highest homeless population, and it’s only getting worse. The homeless problem is getting so out of control that the Mayor, Ed Murray, ...
Murin-an: Literary Descriptions and the Interpretation of Experiences in a Japanese Dwelling
The villa of Murin-an was commissioned by the statesman Yamagata Aritomo in 1894. The garden is considered a collaborative product of Yamagata's vision and the skill of the garden's designer, Ogawa Jihei VII. Although the garden is described as modern and different, an essay written by Yamagata about the villa reveals a ...
The Allegory of Site and the Resettling of Smith Cove
(2013-04-17)
This thesis takes a magical realist approach to unpack today's challenges and to inspire a subjective relationship to these matters. The primary motivation is to add to the dialogues of our times and to enhance architecture's normative approach for a-historical, pragmatic, short-term problem solving. Interbay is the industrial ...
Miami's Forgotten River: Redefining Waterfront Development to Sustain Community, Ecology and Industry
(2013-11-14)
The story of Miami, Florida is written in water. While the image of the city is dominated by the sea and oceanfront development, there is another body of water that has helped forge Miami into the cosmopolitan city it is today-- its' river. The Miami river was once a vital corridor connecting diverse landscapes, peoples, and ...
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 river once ran - found while studying in Oslo, Norway - was the seed for this thesis. I extrapolated from ...
Shifting Perceptions: A Systematic Approach to Urban Environmental Stewardship
We as a species face a fundamental disconnect with our surroundings that has created an existential threat to our continued survival on this planet. If we are to change we need to allow ourselves the opportunities to make deeper connections with our environment once again. The idea of nature is socially constructed. It is ...
Walkable Hydrology: Creating a New Public realm Ground-scape for New Orleans
The City of New Orleans and its response to water has been characterized by exclusion and separation. Currently climate change has made the exclusion of water from the city streetscape impossible, large rain events resulting in localized flooding have become a frequent occurrence. These events cause the public to be separated ...
Reclaiming Rocky Flats: Revealing Buried Cold War History
This thesis examines the reclamation of abandoned Cold War military infrastructure, where history has literally been buried by efforts to restore these sites to their original states. The contamination present at many of these obsolete military installations prevents true restoration from being possible, leading to a simulacrum ...
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, in maps that tend to over specify and oversimplify at the same time, placing its entangled histories and ...
Urban Ecological Architecture: An Integrated Approach to Environmental Health in the City
Urban Ecological Architecture is an integrated approach to sustainable architecture that accounts for the unification of ecological systems and human-made systems in an urban environment such as a large city. "Green" or "Sustainable" Buildings today are able to internalize natural forces into building systems, however the act ...