Congratulations to the Design Build Class of 2024 and Professor Daniel Winterbottom for receiving the 2025 ASLA Student Award of Excellence in Community Design. Their project, Stimulating the Senses: A Calming Retreat in a Skilled Nursing Setting, transformed the outdoor environment at Kline Galland Skilled Nursing Facility. Over two quarters, students engaged with staff and residents to design and build the Quint Family Sensory Garden- a restorative space centered on comfort, accessibility, and dignity.
Category: Design-Build
Landscape Architecture Students Design and Build Microhome
Population Tiny Home UW BLA students, Hanbeom Lee, Vasilisa Karp, and Jessica Liao, participated in the MICROHOME Tiny House Design Competition. During their research on the chosen topic of housing for individuals experiencing homelessness, they discovered the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) and decided to build a tiny house themselves in order to better understand how these houses are constructed in order to improve upon them. The trio of students were able to realize their thorough plans and create a…
Wapato Pond Opening at UW Farm
Overview of the new wapato pond at the UW Farm designed and built by MLA student Kove Janeski.
Kline Galland Quint Family Sensory Garden Celebration
On June 6th, 2024, Kline Galland community members and staff gathered with our 2024 UWLA Design Build students and families to dedicate the Quint Family Sensory Garden.
Camas ‘Baskets’ Installed in Burke Meadow
Urban environments pose a series of challenges to native habitat projects, such as heat from nearby hardscapes, trash and pollution, and disturbance from people visiting the site. The Burke Meadow project is no exception. One of the greatest challenges to the success of the meadow’s camas is grazing by feral urban rabbits, who often eat the shoots down to the ground in early spring.
BLA Design-Build featured on the Arboretum Foundation Website
Our Woodland Creek Design Build is featured in this season’s Arboretum Foundation newsletter. The graduating class of BLAs did an amazing job renovating the former drainage pipe. To read more great details about the students’ work, check out this article from the Arboretum Foundation website.
Summer Design Build 2022 in Traena, Norway
We welcome back some of our students who went to Traena, Norway to complete their Design/Build with Daniel Winterbottom and co-instructors Luka Jelusic and Mate Rupic! A group of 16 students, some matriculated at UW, left the US in the middle of June 2022 to work on a design/build project on a small island off the coast of Norway for five weeks. Students were asked to create a unique space that could be offered year-round to the local community as…
Spring Design Build and Celebration at Kline Galland
On June 7, 2022 Kline Galland celebrated the completion of this year’s Design Build with a dedication ceremony officiating the space as the Marty Bender Family Garden. Read more about this project.
Inaugural Landscape Architecture Furniture Studio
During Autumn 2021, the Furniture Studio, a legacy course in the Architecture department, was offered to Landscape Architecture students for the first time. While the focus on craft and material remained constant, the context of the work provided a unique scale and scope not previously used in furniture studios. Architecture faculty members Kimo Griggs and Steven M. Withycombe worked with 12 MLA and BLA students to design and fabricate landscape furniture. Students receive a primer on lumber dimensions and wood…
2018 Building New Global Connections | Croatia Design/Build
This story originally appeared on College of Built Environments website on October 23, 2019. You can see the original story here. The UW Landscape Architecture Croatia Design/Build program gives students the unique opportunity to make a lasting, physical impact in their host community. Professor Daniel Winterbottom, an expert in the creation of healing and therapeutic gardens, leads the program. With Professor Winterbottom as their guide, students explore the role of restorative landscapes in the built environment through hands-on learning. They…