Ż LIVING IN SYNC: A RE-WILDED CEMETERY Cemeteries occupy some of the most promising and productive lands in North America. A rewilded cemetery bridges the gap between life and death, providing opportunity for green burials, natural grief and profound connection and interaction with our more than human kin. -Brandon Halkitis
Ź MAKING NORTHGATE FROM GREY TO GREEN Implementing green roofs serves to combat climate change, offer shade, extract heat from the air, decrease temperatures of both the roof surface and the surrounding atmosphere, and facilitate rainwater harvesting. - Joe Yan
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Ż THE PLAY LAYER A toolkit for enhancing urban spaces through design for movement play on foot, bikes, and skates. -Colin MacDonald
Ź $ 1257+*$7( /$1' 75867 COOPERATIVE Envisioning a community organization that ties housing density to new public green space development and stewardship. -Kove Janeski
Ż THORNTON CREEK WETLAND DESIGN The project aims to find a sensible solution to this dilemma between animals and humans. An integrated space for humans and birds will be adjusted according to natural water levels, creating an ecological recovery period. -Roxie He
ŹSYMBIOSIS WITH STORM WATER Water serves as the connecting element between Licton Spring Park, Green Lake and Ravenna Park in Seattle. This facilitates the construction of a sponge city to enhance stormwater management, addressing the challenges posed by frequent rainfall and extreme climate events such as floods and droughts. - Lu He
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Ÿ Map of capstone studio design focus areas.
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Faculty: Julie Johnson
The UW 2024 Master of Landscape Architecture Capstone Studio explored and created design visions in response to this query: Given palpable and increasing climate disruptions, how may we design more equitable, biodiverse, and regenerative landscapes, such that humans and other beings may adapt and even thrive? Seattle’s Northgate Urban Center served as the focus area – with the recent Sound Transit Station at the METRO bus hub, Mall redevelopment, affordable housing agenda, evolving hospital campus, and potentials for North Seattle College campus and Thornton Creek as key contexts. The studio’s nine MLA students collaboratively analyzed Northgate and its larger context. Each student scoped design goals and selected where to test and develop their design visions. This map illustrates site locations, with colors corresponding to the student’s project title and description. The color blocks are embedded with a live link to each student’s project on Issuu. We invite you to visit all these climate-informed design visions of more equitable, biodiverse, and regenerative futures. University Of Washington Department of Landscape Architecture
Ż &22/,1* )8785( The project introduces the cooling trail, starting near the link and bus station in Northgate, offering an immediate escape from urban heat. This trail will blend green, blue and grey infrastructures, not only help to cooling the air but enrich the community’s connection to nature. -Jessie Lin
Ź/,9( :,7+ /2:(5 &$5%21 &$0386 Considering future North Seattle College under a carbon sequestration sustainable design mode. It will guide the effective reduction of greenhouse gas emissions development in the Northgate area and the improvement of the hot living environment in the future. -Hannah (Yuqing) Huang
Ż+,6725< /,1(6 Identifying historically significant indigenous sites in Northeast Seattle and weaving them together as a network of spaces that project a radically reimagined future of re-indigenized urban ecologies. - Darryl Vallejos
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