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Scan Design Master Studio

An interdisciplinary graduate design studio through the University of Washington's College of Built Environments

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    • 2021 Bellingham’s New Waterfront: Proposals for a Model Climate District
    • 2020 Design Visions for Heron Meadow
    • 2019 Porous Public Space: Climate Adaptation through Public Space Design
    • 2018 Continuity and Change: Urban Transitions, Public Life for 15th Ave. E.
    • 2017 City / Nature for Urban Resilience: Greener Belltown, Bluer Sound
    • 2016 PSPL – Porous Public Space: Urban Nature for Climate Adaptation
    • 2015 PSPL – Cultivating the Community Commons: Climate, Culture, Craft
    • 2014 PSPL – Seattle Waterfront: Blue Urbanism
    • 2013 PSPL – University District: Urban Play
    • 2012 PSPL – University District West of 15th
    • 2011 PSPL – Seattle’s Central Waterfront
    • 2010 PSPL – Seattle Waterfront
    • 2010 PSPL – Mount Baker
    • 2008 PSPL – Downtown Seattle
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Autumn 2014 Studio Resources

Syllabus  |  Schedule  |  Final Studio Publication

Assignments
Assignment 1: Analysis
Assignment 2: Precedent Studies
Assignment 3: Napkin Diagrams and Laundry Lists
Assignment 3B: District Framework Concepts
Assignment 4: Site Analysis, Program, and Concept

Resources
Washington State Climate Change Element of the 2008 Comprehensive Plan
The President’s Climate Action Plan (White House)
Copenhagen Climate Action Plan
President Obama addresses climate change
Rethinking Streets

Links
Videos of street design in process
Olafur Eliasson exhibit at Louisiana Museum (design boom)
9 Cities That Are Hacking Their Urban Waterfronts (architizer)
New BIG-Designed Neighborhood to Activate Aarhus’ Waterfront (arch daily)
Cutting it close: Seattle agreement not yet finalized as waterfront closure nears (crosscut)
Elliott Bay Seawall Construction Update (9/25/2014)
Waterfront park design needs a dose of reality (crosscut)

Food for Thought
Copenhagen – a city of kids (COBE)
“The wall is a communication tool”
1947 Finger Plan – “The Hand is becoming obese” (Rune, COBE)
Stormwater Boulevards (Lykke Leonardsen, City of Copenhagen)
Nature Value = the value that nature creates (Tredje Natur)
Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change (mentioned by Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson in Malmö)
Figure out who your heroes are and learn their lessons. (Jim, Eastern Cemetery – Östra kyrkogården, Malmö)

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