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Enhancing Legacy | Engaging Process: Phytoremediation at Gas Works Park
This thesis proposes the use of plants to remove hazardous wastes from soil and water, a process known as phytoremediation, as a promising alternative to traditional methods of toxics clean-up. This project focuses ... -
Envisioning a Network for Pollinators in South Seattle
Bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, moths and beetles that pollinate plants are responsible for bringing us almost every bite of food. They also sustain our ecosystems and produce most of the natural resources by helping ... -
Ephemeral Design: Capturing Time and Ecological Processes along the Elwha River
(2013-11-14)There are many sites undergoing dramatic change as a result of decommissioned infrastructure and industry, or war and natural disaster. These sites, as degraded and disturbed landscapes, are in a state of dynamic flux ... -
Establishing a Framework for Landscape Narrative Exploration Within Seattle's Pioneer Square Historic District
Landscape narratives have the ability to transport a visitor into the intimate realm of place: kinesthetically, through immersion, or abounding with ethos. This thesis examines the application of landscape narratives as a ... -
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 ... -
Experiencing the Urban Water Cycle: SR 520 Stormwater Treatment Facility
(2013-02-25)The goal of this thesis is to explore design potentials of a stormwater treatment facility that can serve as a link to involve people in the urban water cycle. The site I examine is the proposed stormwater treatment facility ... -
Exploring Relationships Between Vector-Borne Diseases and Landscape Architecture: Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus and Landscape Architecture
Over half of the world’s population is at risk of contracting vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue The burden on global health has pandemic proportions, over 1 billion cases, and 1 million deaths annually. With ... -
Exploring the Potentials of Interdisciplinary Studios in the University of Washington College of Built Environments
Interdisciplinary collaboration has become a key strategy in the fields of the built environment to understand and address complex environmental and societal issues. The College of Built Environments at the University of ... -
FINDING COMMON GROUND - REIMAGINING A MEMORIAL MULTICULTURAL FOOD FOREST ON PIER 48 IN RESPONSE TO THE HISTORY OF CHINESE IMMIGRATION AND EXCLUSION IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
This thesis explores a systems thinking approach through speculative and creative storytelling in response to the history of Chinese immigration and exclusion in Seattle. I reimagine an inclusive future where a multicultural ... -
First, Let us Look Together. through forests, trees, wood, and building
Wood construction has grown out of the relationship between people and the landscapes they inhabit. Small diameter timber is a material that was once a key component of vernacular building around the world but is now ... -
Floating Wetlands in the Puget Lowlands: Design, Construction, and Viability
Floating wetlands are rafts that host wetland plants, supporting wildlife habitat and contributing to improved water quality. Floating wetlands have been developed and deployed worldwide to restore wetland structure and ... -
Floodable Urban Landscapes for a Resilient City: Potential for the City of Seattle
As a professional project for Seattle Public Utilities, this thesis explores the potential of the urban landscape to act as an integral component of the water infrastructure system as a climate adaptation strategy that ... -
Fresh Hill Behind: designing activities for learning food
Segregation of local food systems is becoming an issue to be discussed in the United States. Most people are only in touch with the retails and consumption parts of the whole food system. The disconnect with food production ... -
From the Flyway to Urban Landings
This thesis aims to study ecological design through the exploration of migratory bird habitat expansion in cities in the context of climate change. The thesis begins with a literature review of basic understanding of the ... -
Future Forests of Bainbridge Island; Climate Change Vulnerability and Continuing Progressive Management
Forests continue to be of immense significance to Bainbridge Island’s sense of place, as well as to supporting essential functions in this eco-region. This thesis process investigated, evaluated, and compiled conditions ... -
The Garden Unit: A Case Study Exploring Therapeutic Garden Design for Elderly with Dementia at the Jewish Home of San Francisco
(2013-07-25)This design thesis examines the significance of therapeutic gardens in long-term geriatric care facilities and advocates for thoughtfully designed "out-of-doors" spaces that support the highest quality of life for elderly ... -
GIS-Based Suitability Analysis and Planning of Green Infrastructure: A Case of the PPCOD, Capitol Hill
The combination of the population growth in cities and climate change at a global scale continually requires developed approaches and strategies for our built environments. In the city of Seattle, which is one of the fastest ... -
Give Me A Clean Death | Rethinking Our Modern Death-Care System
Thousands of tons of carcinogenic chemicals are interred in the ground every year by the modern death care industry in the United States alone. We, as a modern society, have also collectively chosen to relegate the spaces ... -
Grow, Thrive, Be: Building Healthy Communities and Preserving Culture through Designing Children's Outdoor Play
(2014-04-30)New Zealand is a unique island nation with a history of European colonization overlaying earlier Polynesian settlement which results in unprecedented cultural challenges and opportunities. Confronting issues of urbanization, ... -
Growing Climate Resilience: An Urban Forest Design Framework
Climate change promises many negative impacts on human physical, mental and community health in the Puget Sound region. Urban forests supply multiple cultural and ecological services, and because of these multiple benefits, ...