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Join Mithun, Skanska and the Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth (CDHY) for a tour of the new Washington School for the Deaf K-12 campus expansion! Experience how mass timber and DeafSpace guidelines come together to amplify ASL-English communication and learning. Mithun’s?JoAnn Hindmarsh Wilcox, AIA LEED AP,?Seamus Kelly?and?Chip Hammer, along with partners from Skanska and CDHY, will co-present this remarkable campus tour. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e3P9WJiY As the only residential ASL-English bilingual school in the state, CDHY offers a holistic approach focused on fostering linguistic, cognitive, social and emotional development, while also promoting the maintenance and study of American Sign Language (ASL) and English. Deaf-led workshops activated a robust curve of user engagement throughout the design-build process, informing a design that contributes to campus connectivity, transparency and sense of belonging. #MassTimber #DesignBuild #InclusiveDesign #DesignforPositiveChange

The San Francisco Bay Area is taking a proactive approach to sea level rise that represents an exciting standard for the state and country. Mithun has led a team of consultants assisting the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) to develop the Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan (RSAP), setting a region-wide vision for adaptation that supports cross-jurisdictional collaboration and equitable processes to address sea level rise. ? PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD IS OPEN THROUGH FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18TH! Learn more about the project, review the RSAP Draft, and share your input at https://lnkd.in/gtbNs586 A public hearing will be held on October 17 at 1pm, with in-person and virtual participation options. Share your thoughts! ? The RSAP project team includes Eastern Research Group, Inc. (ERG), Environmental Science Associates (ESA), and Greenbelt Alliance. #BayAreaAdaptation #SeaLevelRise

Attending Autodesk University 2024? Join Mithun computational designer Md Shariful Alam and e-verse CEO Valentin Noves for "Design Smarter, Not Harder: AI-Driven Comparison and Optimization with LLMs and Autodesk Forma," to unlock the full potential of AI in transforming your design process! This session will explore how integrating OpenAI’s large language models (LLMs) with Autodesk Forma can streamline early-stage design decisions, predict performance and offer real-time insights to enhance design sustainability. Attendees will learn how to make data-driven decisions, while analyzing functionality, aesthetics, environmental factors and more. We hope to see you there! https://lnkd.in/gmxWRx2e Anik is representing Mithun’s coLAB, a dynamic space within our practice where emerging technologies and design thinking converge to drive innovation. Since its creation in the late 2000s, coLAB has empowered designers across disciplines to experiment with cutting-edge tools and collaborative strategies. At its core, coLAB continues to drive forward new ideas, empowering the next generation of leaders in architecture and design. #computationaldesign #DesignforPositiveChange #MithunCoLAB #AU2024

Mithun partner and Stewardship Partners board member Dakota J. Keene was interviewed by KUOW Public Radio to discuss innovative stormwater treatment systems around the Salish Sea, featuring the "adopt-a-downspout" pilot project located under the Interstate 5's Ship Canal Bridge. This mobile, scalable, inexpensive solution effectively filters pollutants such as 6 PPDQ, a newly discovered toxin known to kill Coho salmon at low concentrations. Read the full article to learn about stormwater treatment solutions and persistent challenges in two of America’s biggest estuaries: https://lnkd.in/g3z8qgkn

Mithun partners Lynn Mcbride and Brendan Connolly recently spoke with Patrick Sisson about the student housing affordability crisis in California, and key design strategies to expand capacity and serve the needs of today’s students. The resulting article in Fast Company features our current work with UCLA on Gayley Towers, a new urban infill project for undergraduates that leverages a co-housing model with efficient living units coupled with generously sized gathering spaces and community kitchens to enable food preparation as an alternative to campus meal plans. Another example is just up the coast at Ventura College, which is incorporating prefabricated systems in their first campus housing to support affordability and a compressed construction timeline. ? Learn more about the campus context and design responses via Fast Company: https://lnkd.in/gKY_uZXh Images of UCLA Gayley Towers by Brick Visual for Mithun #DesignforPositiveChange #studenthousing

Join us at the American Society of Landscape Architects Conference on Landscape Architecture in Washington DC for “Climate Action Planning (The Verb): Promising Practices for Climate-positive Work.” This session explores approaches and highlights from climate action plans at three firms of differing sizes and geographies. Come hear lessons learned from Mithun partner Dorothy Faris, SWA associate Sarah Fitzgerald and SWT Design managing partner Bonnie Roy. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gVXskG3P #DesignforPositiveChange

How do you build a climbing gym inside a bank? The Seattle Times explores the Bouldering Project’s latest location, opening this fall in Seattle's University District. This adaptive reuse of the 112-year-old University National Bank Building makes the most of the historic structure’s expansive windows and architectural details. The gym features about 7,000 sf of bouldering terrain with two floors of 14- to 17-foot walls, a yoga studio, fitness space, coworking space, cold plunges and a sauna inside a converted bank vault. Read the story: https://lnkd.in/g7qevhqK It’s been a fun collaboration, and our sixth built location with The Bouldering Project. Kudos to the entire team! Seattle Bouldering Project, client and climbing environments design-builder Mithun, architecture Swenson Say Faget, structural engineer Dunham, mechanical and electrical engineer Metropolitan Construction, general contractor

Join us at the Advancing Mass Timber Conference in Nashville for “Utilizing Mass Timber to Revolutionize the K-12 Market Sector.” Mithun partner Craig Curtis, FAIA will examine domestic and international case studies that demonstrate the myriad advantages of #masstimber construction for school districts, staff and students. Featured case studies include the recently completed Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth’s Washington School for the Deaf campus expansion, and findings from Mithun’s Building Better Schools R+D study. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g45S5mGx #AdvancingMassTimber #DesignforPositiveChange

Join us for Park(ing) Day, a global, public, participatory project where people across the world temporarily repurpose curbside parking spaces and convert them into public parks and social spaces to advocate for safer, greener and more equitable streets for people. It began as a guerilla art project and act of design activism in a single parking space, and has grown into a global movement, inspiring the creation of “parklets” and COVID-era “streeteries” in cities across the United States and beyond. SEPTEMBER 19th: “Nature in the City” in San Francisco, CA This exhibit offers free activities, seating areas to enjoy the city and opportunities to learn more about the Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly habitat. Hosted by Mithun (Yao Lu, AICP, Mariel Steiner, Srusti Shah, Kristian Elizes, Zoe Kasperzyk, Alyssa Olson . PLA . ASLA, Sneha Moorthy, Anna Evans) with plants donated by Devil Mountain Wholesale Nursery. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/gZXfW_6x SEPTEMBER 20th: “Roll With Us: Access in Action” in Seattle, WA This installation explores mobility options and accessible transit around Seattle. See how an actual Access bus works and learn more about pilot programs to improve the accessibility of downtown sidewalks and seating areas in designated pick up and drop off areas. A collaboration by Mithun (Erin Christensen Ishizaki, Sandra Girgis, Koushik Srinath, Aditi Shreedhar), HNTB (Shikha Chauhan, PLA, ASLA, Ayako Nakagawa, Emily Perchlik), Sound Transit (Daren Crabill, MBA PLA) and King County Metro (Jordan Hoover). Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gwybvXAa “An Oasis Future” in Los Angeles, CA This exhibit offers interactive activities and opportunities to learn more about cooling the urban heat island. Hosted by Mithun (Devin Koba, Stacie Anne Escario Yniguez) Learn More: https://lnkd.in/gbbR8CxZ “Are We There Yet?” in Seattle, WA This installation offers free interactive games, seating areas to enjoy the city and opportunities to learn more about transit and mobility options around town.e Hosted by Mithun (Sandra Girgis, Koushik Srinath, Monserratt Cortes Macias and Aditi Shreedhar) Learn More: https://lnkd.in/g88KZaWg #parkingday2024 #reclaimthestreets #DesignforPositiveChange

What if you could hear sounds from the past, present and future all at once? For this year's Seattle Design Festival (SDF), our team at Mithun, in collaboration with Lease Crutcher Lewis (build partner) and Arup (audio-visual), drew inspiration from the history and profound influence of water in the Puget Sound region. We created a vessel for listening—an original immersive soundscape featuring ancient, modern and digital sounds that encapsulate the power and fragility of our relationship with water. During the event it was great to see visitors explore and linger beneath the pair of floating spherical shells comprised of FSorb Acoustic Panels made from waste plastics and polyester. The panels are designed to be reused and recycled, reflecting our commitment to zero waste from this installation and enhancing the Pacific Northwest recycling network to keep plastics out of our waters. Special thanks to our Sound & Place project and coordination team: Md Shariful Alam, Alexander Ayala, Uwe Bergk, Carl Dominguez, AIA LEED AP BD and C, Evan Fleming, Ka Kit Chiu and Veronica Macalinao, AIA If you haven’t seen it, check out Alex Ayala’s?feature on the SDF Blog: https://lnkd.in/giTUrQj6 We’re already looking forward to next year! #SeattleDesignFestival