Sustainable Design for Washington State Ferry System

The WSF project will focus on the sustainable design of four ferry terminals in the Puget Sound.  The goals for the project will be creating a sustainable plan for stormwater and transportation.  This project is a collaborative effort with the Washington State Ferry (WSF) system and Washington State University.

 

Biomass supply chain BioFuels Production

The Biofuels project will focus on the biomass supply chain used in the production of BioFuels for aviation.  The project will focus on the Clearwater Basin in Northern Idaho, specifically the reuse of an abandoned plywood fabrication facility in an attempt to support the supply chain and improve the local communities.

 

Stormwater Design in Urban Environments

The AUBURN project will propose innovative and integrated design ideas for an urban built enviornment organized around water and stormwater resources.  The two semester project is a partnership between WSU and the City of Auburn to create a vision of healthy urban ecologies, economies, and societies that address water infrastructure at every physical and virtual scale of an urban center. 

Sensored Organic Farming in the Palouse

The design of the smartFARM will encompass the built and natural environments at local, regional, and global scales.  It will influence policy and outline a new blueprint for the production and consumption of food, energy, and water by engaging social networks and sensored environments that respond and perhaps predict climatic and human occupancy changes.    It will be a smart environment from building to field, wired with ubiquitous control systems.  Yet, it will achieve a design simplicity  that realizes an environmental and economic efficiency over conventional methods.

 

  

Mid-Rise Wood Building Typologies

The TALLtimber Project is coordinated research effort between design studios of engineering and architecture to propose new wood structural systems, methods, and policies to achieve buildings with greater density and higher durability using engineered wood walls.