Day 01: Site visit and trip to Bainbridge

After a brief introduction to the studio and the project, we headed downtown to our site--which is on Marion Street between First Avenue and Alaskan Way. After missing out on the 3:00 pm ferry, we took a few minutes to check out the existing Marion Street Pedestrian Bridge (the redesign of which is our studio problem). We then caught the 3:50 ferry to Bainbridge Island, returning to Seattle on the 4:35 ferry back to Colman Dock Ferry Terminal. The weather was amazing, and gave us a chance to view Seattle from afar while thinking about the daily trek back and forth for many who live on Bainbridge Island and beyond and work in Seattle. We returned to Seattle just at the beginning of the evening rush hour heading back to the Island and this gave a decent sense of just how busy this pedestrian bridge can be at peak travel times. It was a great way to start the project and we will begin Wednesday studio looking at some initial design ideas while talking more generally about the larger framework of the new Seattle Waterfront Plan. 

urban (INFRA)structure studio