Reclaim, Redress, Rewild

Dillon Marlow, Essay, Luca Viverito, No Density, Politics and economics, Urban Paradigms.

Biophilic, Community, Crisis, Essay, Health, Landscape, Safety, Seattle, Social consciousness, Sustainability, Transportation Systems, USA, Well-being.

Research by Luca Viverito and Dillon Marlow, developed during the SocioEcological Urgencies [time in the Anthropocene] studio at Pratt Institute.

The unhoused population of Seattle finds itself in the middle of convergent crises. Their position is the result of focused displacement and consistent administrative mental health neglect; and they stand to lose more as the climate crisis worsens – the most vulnerable being the most exposed. An architectural intervention here must be sensitive to the typological models the unhoused have already adopted, while providing a service function, empowering them to live more safely and sustainably. The simultaneous ecological recuperation of the site will redress the historical violence against the landscape and provide biophilic stimulus for the unhoused.