Our studio project aims to create better health outcomes for the community by increasing density, promoting passive fitness, and creating more public gathering spaces. Capitol Hill Housing Authority has begun executing this goal at a larger urban scale. The CHHA has termed EcoDistricts as communities that enable residents to become healthier through better opportunities for physical activity, cleaner air and water, access to fresh foods, civic engagement, and a culture that supports health promotion. Seattle became a perfect opportunity for an EcoDistrict intervention, as they were already working on adding six light rail stations. CHHA partnered with GGLO Design to begin the EcoDistrict.
The EcoDesign Vision:
Better design will increase physical activity,
Reduce environmental pollution,
Improve access to healthier foods,
Connect residents with each other and the outdoors
Design facilitating physical activity and residents connecting with each other and the outdoors are two key principals to our studio project. EcoDesign also sets transportation goals like increasing all active transportation trips (biking, walking, etc.) and cutting vehicular transportation in half.
Other goals include:
Lower obesity rate
Increase the amount of locally grown food donated to food banks
Build new affordable housing near transit stations
Design all new buildings to be LEED Gold Certified or Living Building Challenge Certified by 2030
These transportation goals forced me to reflect on our decision to develop a one-site solution for Lawndale. Through the goals that EcoDistricts set, I think that a transportation hub is a key attribute necessary to create the dense pedestrian community we hope to achieve.
Rendering by GGLO Desgin
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