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Contour: Walk the historic landscape of Seattle’s only river delta
Within my academic studies in Urban Design & Planning and Landscape Architecture, I am interested in human-created landscapes, with a specific emphasis on mobility infrastructure and its impact on multi-species residents. ... -
Everyday Use of Emergency Spaces: A Park Design for Westport, Washington’s Proposed Vertical Evacuation Structure
This thesis explores the integration of hazard mitigation, placemaking, andresilient design in the small coastal town of Westport, Washington, as it confronts the challenges of preparing for a catastrophic tsunami while ... -
Small-Scale Manufacturing & Production of Place
The premise of this thesis is that small-scale manufacturing plays a critical role in revitalizing our industrial communities back into productive urban districts. This thesis explores a new phase of urban manufacturing ... -
Cultivating the Next Generation of Environmentally-conscious Citizens: Playful Public Education Design Framework
What kind of built environment can we create if we can equally love white storks and blue angel super hornets? How can we acknowledge and respect both the natural world and human aspirations, without compromising the two ... -
Radical Cannabis Ecologies: A Regenerative Approach to Cannabis Farms in The Emerald Triangle
Over the past 150 years, the forest ecosystems of California’s Northwestern Coast have been dramatically altered, first through a century of intensive logging followed by 50 years of illicit cannabis cultivation. Combined, ... -
Recommoning Ground: Community Land Trusts and Urban Commons
The most pressing problems facing cities are rooted in the relationship between people and commodified lands. Community Land Trusts (CLT) are models that have potential to not only address these issues, but also the urban ... -
STRIVING TOWARDS ZERO WASTE THROUGH LANDSCAPE DESIGNS AND PROGRAMS IN U DISTRICT
This thesis presents a research-based design for Seattle’s University District that aims to make the district cleaner, generate less waste, and reduce its ecological footprint. The key strategies proposed are based on an ... -
Refuse as Resource: Exploring a community benefiting and place-based approach to municipal solid waste management in Juneau, Alaska
The linear economy operates in a “take-make-dispose” model, which necessitates the continuous extraction, production, and disposal of goods to maximize profits. The end of the linear economy, the disposal phase, results ... -
Hydraulic Modeling to Quantify Benefits of Floodplain Restoration
In rural areas, flood management is often achieved with large civic projects such as dams and levees. In contrast, the restoration of floodplain processes is done as a remediation or seen as a separate end. Restoring ... -
Re-Entangling The Urban Habitat: Exploring Housing Through An Architecture of Biodiversity
The last century has seen a dramatic decline in species populations and diversity across the globe. Today's methods of constructing cities and inhabiting regional landscapes has overwhelmed the homeostasis of Earth's life ... -
In the Absence of Water: An Eco-Distopian Scenario in Mexico City
Mexico City’s water narratives are unique to its place, yet simultaneously speak to the ubiquity of climate challenges in the Anthropocene. This design research explores the reciprocal relationships between water and the ... -
Minecraft as a Tool for Investing Adolescents in Climate Adaptation: A Case Study in Westport Washington
Adolescents are often neglected or excluded from conversations about community environmental hazard adaptation in part because few community adaptation outreach strategies cater to their demographic. In the last decade, ... -
Coastal Forests as a Tsunami Mitigation Measure in Pacific Northwest Coastal Communities
The Pacific Northwest coast has tsunami risk in both non-local and local forms. Most significant is the tsunami risk that comes from the Cascadia subduction zone, and scientists predict that more major seismic events along ... -
Remaking Post-Industrial Aesthetics through Community Engagement
This thesis proposes the use of an aesthetic lens to understand the post-industrial landscape and public engagement on the site. Remediation is often the focused on the post-industrial landscape which rarely results in ... -
Remaking Post-Industrial Aesthetics through Community Engagement
This thesis proposes the use of an aesthetic lens to understand the post-industrial landscape and public engagement on the site. Remediation is often focused on the post-industrial landscape which rarely results in specific ... -
Terra Incognita: Speculative Landfill Futures
The amount of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) the world produces far exceeds our current infrastructural capacity. The things we throw away, while arguably benign individually, are dangerous once accumulated in large quantities. ... -
Reframing Farmworker Justice, Decolonizing Land Stewardship
The following work is a speculative design project about rethinking the future of our current industrialized agricultural system as a community-based, reciprocal system led by the very people who are currently exploited ... -
Vertical Landscapes: Learning From a Rock Climbing Perspective
Within the field of landscape architecture, verticality is predominantly defined as a design tool. The variety of applications for vertical elements within design, and the spatial role they can play is well documented. ... -
Strategizing Critical Habitat Restoration for Military Bases: An Exploration of Prairies on Joint Base Lewis-McChord
The decline of ecological habitats has led to the increased listing of endangered species (Haddad et al., 2015). U.S. military installations require complex environments to train soldiers for a variety of missions, and ... -
Acknowledging Landscape: Walking Paths Towards Indigenous Urbanism
In North America, all cities have beneath them Indigenous land and are set within Indigenous landscapes, and yet this connection is rarely explicit in the physical environment. Much of urban development has been constructed ...