CAST architecture has three projects featured in Taunton’s new book on kitchen design. Thanks to Elizabeth and Clay, Bill and Natasha, and Ken and Marilyn for being great clients! Bon appetit!
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We had a fantastic turn out for the Sand Point Elementary Earth-day work party this past weekend. A special thanks to Loren Yaguchi and all the folks from Abbott Construction’s special projects group for donating materials, shop time, and a whole lot of can do to make the benches we designed become a fantastic kit of parts for the community to assemble!
30 new stacking benches for the outdoor classroom fully assembled – a testament to the prep of the folks a Abbott Construction and all the volunteers who turned out to work on our local public school!
Thank you to Carter Capps, pitcher for the Seattle Mariners and Taylor Graham, defender for the Sounders FC for signing autographs and helping with our projects!
Richard Swann author of “Our School Garden” putting the newly assembled benches for the outdoor classroom to good use!
CAST had a great 2012–a mixed use studio, our first prefab houses, a pioneering urban farm, some great residential projects and a fabulous cabin in Mazama are just some of the many projects that we worked on this past year.
In collaboration with Seattle Tilth, the Friends of R.B.U.F.W., and the Berger Partnership, CAST will be designing an urban farm in Seattle. The site is a former municipal nursery in Rainier Beach–10 acres of mostly wetland with some hoop houses at the north end. We’ll be undertaking the challenge to not only make a model for urban agriculture, we’ll also be greatly increasing the ecological function of the wetlands.
This project is in one of the most diverse zip codes in the nation, and we’ll be involving the community to shape the design, as well as creating facilities for small scale commercial farmers, entrepreneurs, and other programs such as Seattle Youth Garden Works. The hope is to make a community hub centered on growing and sharing food.
The first community design meeting is June 19th on site (time TBD). Please come and share your vision with us!
We helped out a great organization, Orphans to Ambassadors with a pro bono design and donation for a chicken coop to help feed 423 orphans at the Institute for Women’s Excellence in Rwanda. During the month of May, they build the coop, some rocket stoves, and some rainwater harvesting projects for this and other orphanages in the area. Great work!
Hopefully, we’ll have the chance to help out with more their future projects!
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Great News–We won the 2012 BEST SMALL HOUSE AWARD from Fine Homebuilding magazine. They did a very nice video (link) with interviews of our awesome clients. The Widner’s DADU has been covering in our blog before (here and here).
seattle center green at dusk--entry for Urban Intervention competition
In collaboration with the Berger Partnership ,Via Architecture, and Rushing, we put together a competition proposal for the replacement of Memorial Stadium and a new vision for the Center as a whole.
The design is an organic and topographic intervention that flows through the Center and surrounding neighborhoods, creating new connections, opportunities for new programs, and experiences at the Center. It creates a dense, flexible fabric stitched together with multi-modal transit to bring in new audiences, local/daily users, and new amenities for regional visitors.
'Center Grown'--a proposal for Seattle Center's Urban Intervention Competition
Some of the important features:
Seattle Center Urban Intervention
Soon we’ll be able to post our design concept for the revitalization of the Seattle Center, as part of the Urban Intervention competition, but here is a little sneak peak:
Urban Intervention design sketch--early design collage
Once they announce the finalists, we’ll be able to release the full content of our proposal, as well and give full credit to all the great collaborators we worked with.
2011 was good, but 2012 is going to be much better!
In December, Stefan and I asked Tim to become a full partner in CAST architecture. Tim has been with us since 2006, and has done some fantastic work, including the Artalejo-Lacas, Anderson and Bookloft residences.
Tim’s work has been influenced by his interest in traditional Japanese architecture, small space design and Urban density issues. His path has been fueled by an 18-month research scholarship to study urban housing in Japan while a graduate student. This interest has most recently manifested itself in his efforts advocating for the passage of the Seattle Backyard Cottage ordinance. He is currently engaged in the design of efficient and elegant homes and cottages in various Seattle neighborhoods.
Tim is a registered architect in the State of Washington. He received a master of Architecture from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Art and Design from Montana State University.