This studio focuses particularly on the 24th Avenue NW street end and the adjacent Seattle Public Utilities pump station site, a small but strategic piece of publicly owned land along Salmon Bay. While primarily known today as infrastructure, the site also represents a rare point of potential access to the water in a stretch of shoreline largely defined by maritime industry. Students were asked to consider how this location could function as a catalyst: a place where infrastructure, ecology, and public life might intersect to demonstrate new possibilities for the Ballard waterfront.
Working across multiple time horizons, students developed long-term planning frameworks, mid-term site and park designs, and near-term urban activations capable of testing ideas in the present. These proposals explored how public access, habitat restoration, and maritime activity might coexist along the shoreline, and how relatively modest interventions could help initiate broader transformations over time.
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