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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 function to degraded urban aquatic environments. Informed by river and wetland structure and function, as ...
Recapturing a Cultural Landscape: The Past and Future Character of the Haller Gardens
ABSTRACT Recapturing a Cultural Landscape: The Past and Future Character of the Haller Gardens Doris J. McMahon Cultural landscapes are vital community repositories because they provide opportunities for learning about history of a place and cultural heritage of the people. Today (2016), visitors to cultural landscapes are ...
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, they are often cited as a tool for building urban resilience to the effects of climate change. Urban ...
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 specifically on designing phytoremediation for Gas Works Park, a beloved city park and former manufactured gas ...
On the Edge
Although edges are often dismissed as a simple boundary or fringe aspect of design, their true nature is much more complex and richer. Their power lies in the fact they are neither separators or unifiers, describers of form or of space, but all, and at the same time. However, their dynamism is often neglected by designers, ...
Native Cultural Design: Exploring Design to Address Historical Trauma and Assist with Village Relocation on the Quinault Indian Nation in Taholah, WA
Native American communities are in need of improvement, which I attribute to historical trauma from the deplorable acts that Native American communities have gone through. Historical trauma creates difficulties for the planning and design professionals who seek to work with Native communities. Through new creative processes ...
The Power of Participation: Documenting and evaluating a community build project in Pongro Senchey, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
This thesis documents and evaluates a community build project with the residents of Pongro Senchey. The community is located in the urban periphery of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The central question of this thesis is, “How should this project be assessed for its effectiveness, and what larger lessons for community design-build ...
Cultivating the Campus: Productive Strategies for the University of Washington's Educational Landscape
With the urban population forecasted to continue expanding, simultaneously distancing individuals from the environmental impacts of their consumption, two fundamental priorities are becoming clear: how will we sustainably provide for ourselves, and how will we educate each other? This thesis explores what a campus-wide ...
Therapeutic Streetscapes: A New Bell Street Designed to Accommodate Those on the Autism Spectrum
The rate of children and adults being diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is rapidly rising throughout the United States. The CDC now estimates that 1 in 68 children are on the autism spectrum. At the same time cities across the United States are in a period of growth not seen since before World War Two. As more and ...
Rewilding Ballard | Growing Small-Scale Community Habitat
The current magnitude of global environmental challenges, including climate change and mass species extinctions demands an intensely greater level of integration between human and natural systems. This design thesis explores the incorporation of urban wildlife habitat into the built environment as one important approach for ...