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Architecture & Engineering


Design
Perspectives
 By Clair Enlow
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February 15, 2006

Design Perspectives: How to design with nature, not against it

  • As the world's shorelines are rising from global warming, architects and planners are studying what lies underneath the surface of land and water.
    • By CLAIR ENLOW
    Special to the Journal

    At the University of Washington's Gould Hall last week, Meriwether Wilson pointed to a colorful map as tall as herself and in the shape of West Seattle.

    The shadows of the ridges, ravines and bluffs are sharp and hyper-real — as if people had not been building roads and houses here for more than a century. But the slopes don't stop at the shoreline. They continue in the blue of the underwater landscape, revealing a seamless natural world.


     
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