Reports

July 30, 2014

2024 CSI SDF IS in WA Report

August 1, 2022

2022 SDF Research Report Visiting Professor Master Studio in Architecture

Migration into the world’s major cities around the globe continues to grow. The United Nations predicts that 68% of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050, a 13% jump from today’s 55%. By 2050 approximately 2.5 billion people will need to find housing in our cities where housing availability is already scarce. Our challenge is to find ways to accommodate ever more people in our cities while improving living condions and dramatically reducing our carbon emissions.

August 1, 2022

2022 Bellingham’s New Waterfront: Proposals for a Model Climate District

The 2022 Scan Design Foundation Master Studio in Urban Design and Landscape Architecture spent Fall 2022 imagining new futures for the Bellingham Waterfront, a post industrial brownfield site at the mouth of Whatcom Creek.

October 1, 2021

Bellingham's New Waterfront Proposals for a Model Climate District

Bellingham’s former Georgia-Pacific industrial waterfront site presents an unparalleled opportunity to explore how cities can become part of the solution to the climate crisis. By designating this waterfront area a “Climate District,” students in the 2021 Scan Design Interdisciplinary Studio were able to maintain focus on solutions for both accelerating climate protection (mitigation) as well as for adapting to projected impacts by planning for inevitable, though variable, future conditions

October 1, 2020

2020 Design Visions for Heron Meadow

The 2020 Scan Design Foundation Master Studio worked with the Vashon Nature Center and Vashon Center for the Arts (VCA) to envision the Heron Meadow on Vashon Island as a space for community gathering, art, science, habitat restoration and nature play. The studio explored the question: How can a small, former agricultural meadow elegantly function in multiple ways, to best provide an inspiring venue for learning, community and the arts?

August 1, 2020

Studio 2020

During the autumn of 2020, Dan Stubbergaard, founder and creative director of COBE Architects in Copenhagen, was the Scan Design Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. In that role Stubbergaard taught a graduate-level master studio in the Department of Architecture with Associate Professor Peter Cohan. The topic of the studio, CITY FACTORY, asked the students to design a production facility for the fabrication and assembly of large scale building components for Nordhavn, a new neighborhood for 40,000 inhabitants being developed at the site of an old maritime industrial harbor.