Landscape Architecture Landscape Architecture 1 2 Landscape Architecture AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE OVERALL VISION. We design spaces that are an extension of the built COMMERCIAL OFFICE MID-RISE / MIXED-USE environment, broadening HIGH RISE the connection to nature as PARKS / OPEN SPACES part of the daily experience. PLANTING DESIGN When there is a seamless SUSTAINABLE CERTIFICATION transition from room to STORMWATER MANAGEMENT roof deck, from lobby to MASTER PLANNING streetscape the distinction GREEN ROOFS of these spaces is blurred. SPECIAL PROJECTS PUBLIC MEETING FACILITATION DATA 1 3 4 Featured Services COMMERCIAL OFFICE ..................4–15 MID-RISE / MIXED-USE ............. 16–35 HIGH RISE ................................ 36–57 1 LeMay Sculpture Garden 2 Meet the team Rachael Meyer PLA, GRP, LEED® AP LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PRINCIPAL Rachael has over 15 years experience in commercial, residential, and public projects. She is passionate about green roofs, urban agriculture and sustainable strategies, and integrates these passions into many of her designs. Rachael brings an expertise in integrated design, and elevates projects by maximizing the impact landscapes can have on the urban fabric. Rachael has been a leader in pushing the opportunities for landscape in our urban environment through research and public engagement. She regularly speaks and writes about her research, which ranges from water management practices to living landscapes. Burton K. Yuen LEED® AP BD+C ASSOCIATE, LANDSCAPE DESIGNER Burton is a crucial member of Weber Thompson’s Landscape Architecture Studio with his extensive experience crafting thoughtful and innovative designs. With over 20 years of experience in Idaho and Seattle, he’s worked on a wide variety of project types ranging from high rise towers to office campuses. Ken Gifford ASLA LANDSCAPE DESIGNER Ken has always been intrigued by the graphic nature of the design process. His formative experiences include private residential work, particularly design-build. These immersive projects allowed him to sink his teeth into all phases of design – from early design and client interaction to securing permits and construction administration. Shoshanah Haberman LANDSCAPE DESIGNER After gaining years of experience working hands on with residential clients in Seattle, Shoshanah joined the Weber Thompson Landscape Architecture studio in the spring of 2019. At WT she is able to dive back into solving design challenges that come with tight, difficult urban spaces. 3 DATA 1 4 Commercial Office IT’S ALL ABOUT THE WORK / LIFE BALANCE. Commercial and mixed-use are becoming ever more integrated, creating communities that embrace the idea of balance. This increases the opportunities for people to live a more sustainable, walkable life, where work, home and play can all be reached without the need for cars. 5 Images: Kilograph 6 Kilograph Image: Image: Watershed SEATTLE, WA Under Seattle’s Living Building Pilot’s third version, this commercial office building in the Fremont neighborhood will be visionary in its Over 200,000 gallons of roof material selection, response to the environment and urban context water collected and reused on with supplemental energy, water, and stormwater reduction targets. site The project’s two frontages include vibrant pedestrian environments Over 400,000 gallons of runoff as well as treatment of stormwater from the historic Aurora Bridge from streetscapes, including the in stepped bioretention planting. A mix of grasses, shrubs and Aurora Bridge, are diverted and perennials transform the expanded Troll Avenue right of way to cleaned before entering Lake support pollinators and connect people with nature. Union Metal details trace the pathway of stormwater through the site, beginning with metal wier walls, steel scuppers embedded within SERVICES gabion retaining walls, cast iron grating to expand bioretention areas Architecture and steel blade signage describing the story of water on the site. Landscape Architecture 7 8 Ballard Blocks II SEATTLE, WA Building on the destination retail provided by the adjacent Ballard Blocks I Retail Center, Ballard Blocks II expands the neighborhood’s Mixed-Use project on a former identity into a shopping and human services district anchored by industrial site in Ballard’s both local and national tenants. Comprised of three distinct industrial neighborhood buildings linked by pedestrian plazas and pass-throughs, the development brings additional retail, grocery, child care and marine Project will contain a grocery sales to the neighborhood. store, a marine retailer, small restaurants and retail, childcare BBII’s design echoes the historic maritime and forestry industry of and commercial office the neighborhood. Pedestrian walk paths recall Ballard’s original wood plank streets, and the project’s massing mimics the shaping of the waterfront. Pops of bright yellow-greens and rusty reds seen Full block development totals in the mottled metal surfaces brought on by Ballard’s century of more than 100,000 square feet boat traffic and marine life are threaded throughout the project as wayfinding elements. SERVICES Architecture The project borders The Burke Gilman Trail with a structure that Landscape Architecture will serve as an east gateway into the site and will be reserved for either a local brewery, bike-shop or café. Extensive surface water mitigation and lush vegetation will offset the many hard surfaces of the surrounding sites and activate a neighborhood typically accessed by cars. 9 10 DATA 1 Office SEATTLE, WA Weber Thompson was approached to design a highly sustainable office project in Seattle’s self-proclaimed ‘Center of the Universe.’ Highly sustainable commercial The site and program offered many opportunities to create a office project on the cutting edge handsome building that embraces high performance building design. of building performance Along the east edge of the project site, the Aurora Bridge empties LEED Gold certified and Salmon stormwater runoff directly onto Troll Avenue. This water typically Safe certified flows downhill into dedicated storm drains that discharge into Lake Union without ever being treated. The project redirects this runoff into a series of deep bioretention cells running alongside the building. AWARDS These planters integrate soil and vegetation that naturally scrubs WASLA – General Design Award stormwater, allowing dissolved pollutants to settle before the water of Merit, 2018 – much cleaner than before – is diverted back into Lake Union. Seattle 2030 District – Vision Award for Water, 2017 Adjacent to these planters, a stair climb and new sidewalk uses signage to educate the public about this voluntary altruistic feature SERVICES and lead pedestrians up the slope of Troll Avenue, a frequent path Architecture for neighbors and tourists climbing to see the Troll sculpture Landscape Architecture dwelling beneath the bridge. Interpretive Signage 11 12 Fremont NorthShore Building SEATTLE, WA Fremont NorthShore is a commercial building that takes advantage of its assets. Jaw dropping views of Lake Union and downtown 3-story building with 7,000 sf of Seattle are maximized with floor to ceiling glass and a large rooftop ground-floor retail and 30,000 sf terrace. A dramatic two story mews connects the building and of commercial office space shoreline beyond with the adjacent Burke-Gilman Trail, providing walkers and bikers direct access, along with extensive in-building Pass-thru mews connects N bicycle parking and showers. Northlake Way to Burke-Gilman Trail This three story, minimalist building strengthens the neighborhood’s geographic connections and improves the pedestrian experience on both sides of the building through landscape and safety SERVICES improvements to the bike trail, and by adding sidewalks, angled Architecture parking and landscaping to Northlake Way North streetscape. Landscape Architecture Sustainable strategies are found throughout the building, with quality daylighting, and operable windows offering tenants fresh air. An extensive storm water mitigation strategy is found top to bottom, from a full coverage green roof to lushly planted biofiltration planters along the sidewalk. 13 14 Cedar Speedster SEATTLE, WA In Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, an urban renaissance is quietly taking place. In the mix is a proposed three-story office building at Three story timber building in the 36th & Phinney on the site of the beloved Korean street food Fremont neighborhood of Seattle restaurant, Revel. When it opens in 2019, it will contain not only a new home for Revel, but also 4,600 sf of additional ground level 22,000 sf of commercial office retail and office space, two upper levels of office and one level of with 10,000 sf of underground below-grade parking. parking This new structure will pay homage to the neighborhood’s industrial, lumber and saw mill history with heavy timber 5,000 sf retail, 2,100 sf of which construction, exposed wood car decking ceilings and exterior will be occupied by Revel cedar cladding. The exposed building structure will celebrate the unparalleled character that only natural materials and time-tested SERVICES construction techniques can create. Architecture Interior Design Energy modeling was utilized early in the design process to identify Landscape Architecture areas posing glare and heat gain issues; from those exercises, covered decks were added on upper levels and glazing was minimized on south and west facades. 15 Radius SLU 16 Mid-Rise / Mixed-Use WE KNOW MIXED-USE.