The document proposes activating levees along the Mississippi River as community assets. It discusses designing a set of patterns to apply throughout the levee system, with guiding principles of enhancing open spaces, embracing the river as an asset, and extending recreational paths to increase connectivity. Specifically, it presents connecting the 110-mile Levee Bike Trail to the 3000-mile Mississippi River Trail to provide over 100 miles of trails and tie into the MRT (Mississippi River Trail) for improved recreation and commuting options.

1. Rain Harvesting Rooftop
Activated Green Rooftop
Portfolio - Master Planning
James Ellingboe, ASLA
(3,127 gallons per 1/4” rainfall)
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accessible: mixed extensive & intensive roof gardens
inaccessible: existing buildings retro tted with solar & water catchment
terraced garden
Rain Harvesting Rooftop
(1,789 gallons per 1/4” rainfall)
Activated Green Rooftops
Green Rooftop
Fawcett Avenue
Tacoma Avenue
Market Street
Partial Plan of Ravine Hillclimb open space
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Scale: 1”=20’-0” hierarchy
primary open space
Building Footprint secondary open space
Context
Bird’s Eye
A Sustainable Campus Landscape Plan for UW Tacoma Site Design
Section B-B’ pedestrian
Scale: 1”=20’-0”
circulation
pedestrian route
ADA accessible route
external elevator
sky-bridge
street terraces
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A Sustainable Campus Landscape Plan for UW Tacoma Site Design
Graduate Design Studio - Landscape Urbanism
Concept: Campus plan emulates the morphology of a Puget Sound bluff.
Orientation of buildings so that they are perpendicular to the slope of the site
not only facilitates an optimal siting for passive cooling and heating, but also
S. 19th St.
provides an opportunity to explore the geomorphology of a Puget Sound bluff
particularly with respect to soil movement and erosion. In a sense, architecture
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becomes geology. The line between the natural world and built environment
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becomes blurred, especially in the realm of open space. Transitional spaces
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Fawcett
from terrace to terrace become abstract representations of bluff erosion
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morphologies. The vegetative palette in these spaces is purely regional in nature.
This native palette is juxtaposed to the identity-driven planting palette of the
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campus terraces. Essentially the plan is comprised of a bluff with native flora
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that has been overlayed with the urban fabric of Tacoma represented by a global