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, cross-laminated timber in their first campus housing to generate biophilic benefits for students along with a compressed construction timeline to control costs (and thus rental rates). 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
Mithun
Architecture and Planning
Seattle, WA 12,541 followers
Mithun is an integrated design firm dedicated to creating positive change in people’s lives.
About us
Mithun is an integrated design firm dedicated to creating positive change in people’s lives. As a national practice with offices in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, we are a unified design studio with an open and collaborative spirit founded on a process of inquiry and listening. Our team of Architects, Landscape Architects, Interior Designers, Urban Designers and Planners creates seamless experiences that are unique expressions of each client, community and place. We work in a wide range of typologies and scales – with a focus on urban environments and places where people live, work, and learn. Mithun is an internationally recognized leader in sustainability, combining exemplary design with a focus on building and site performance, human health and social equity. Since the inception of the practice in 1949, our work has been recognized with hundreds of peer and industry awards including six AIA Committee on the Environment Top Ten project honors as well as ranking among the nation’s top design firms.
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http://mithun.com
External link for Mithun
- Industry
- Architecture and Planning
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Seattle, WA
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 1949
- Specialties
- architecture, planning, landscape architecture, interior design, urban planning, master planning, integrated design, and sustainable architecture
Locations
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Primary
1201 Alaskan Way
#200
Seattle, WA 98101, US
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660 Market Street
#300
San Francisco, CA 94104, US
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5837 Adams Blvd
Culver City, California 90232, US
Employees at Mithun
Updates
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We’re thrilled to celebrate the grand opening of the Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth campus expansion at Washington School for the Deaf! The new Divine Academic Building, Hunter Gymnasium and fully accessible Despo’s Playground present an innovative model for learning environments tailored to enhance American Sign Language (ASL)-English bilingual instructional practices, facilitate communication and extend the sensory reach of WSD’s empowered students and educators. DeafSpace design principles are incorporated throughout the campus with the use of mass timber and vibration-friendly flooring, expansive low-glare windows for abundant natural light while avoiding eye strain, wider hallways and low-slope stairs for active ASL communication, and extensive visual connectivity between spaces. Yesterday’s ribbon cutting ceremony with Governor Jay Inslee was a landmark occasion for the K-12 school, Deaf and hard of hearing community, Washington state educational system and project contributors. Congratulations to all! Project team members include: Washington State Department of Enterprise Services, project management; Skanska, progressive design-build team leader and general contractor; Mithun, architecture, interior design and landscape architecture; DeafSpace experts Hansel Bauman and Robert T. Sirvage; PCS Structural Solutions, structural engineer; Harper Houf Peterson Righellis Inc., civil engineer; Glumac and JH Kelly, LLC, design-build MEP; A3 Acoustics, LLP, acoustics; Dark Light Design, lighting; Halliday Associates Inc., food service; Mayer/Reed, Inc., environmental graphics signage; O'Brien360, LEED consultant; Säzän Group Inc., Commissioning Agent; The Avidcraft PLLC, specifications; and Qualified Enclosure Consultants, envelope consulting. Learn more about the project: https://lnkd.in/grG_fk2Y #designforpositivechange
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Come tour the building that San Francisco mayor London Breed dubbed ‘Housing Done Right’! Kapuso at the Upper Yard includes transit-adjacent affordable housing, childcare, and new public open space in a community-driven, 2030 Challenge-compliant design that demonstrates housing as infrastructure for decarbonization, wellness, equity, livability and social justice. Presenters from Mithun's integrated team include Anne Torney (architecture), Iveanette Santiago Rivera (architecture), Annie Rummelhoff (interior design), Alyssa Olson . PLA . ASLA (landscape) and Mariel Steiner (landscape). Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gMJDABxX #ArchandCity #DesignforPositiveChange
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UCI Verano 8 Graduate Student Housing is a 2024 Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) National Award of Merit - Educational Facilities Winner! The University of California, Irvine’s new graduate student housing was designed to provide unique student-centered residences that addressed critical priorities for UCI’s graduate students, specifically affordability, community, inclusive design, sustainability and privacy. The LEED Platinum and Fitwel certified project strives to optimize health benefits from detailed material selection to the neighborhood scale. Well-being is supported throughout the community with active stairs, biophilic design strategies, community gardens and interspersed lounge spaces for planned and spontaneous gatherings to foster social connection. Congratulations to our incredible Mithun (architecture, interior design, landscape architecture) HENSEL PHELPS (general contractor) design-build project team and many other collaborators! Glumac, Michael Wall Engineering, Atlas Mechanical Inc, Bergelectric, HPS Mechanical, Inc.
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Join us for a guided tour of and presentation about the University of Washington Haring Center educational and research facility, to learn about their specialized mission and the comprehensive design-build renovation that transformed all aspects of the building’s systems, from seismic upgrades to improved site circulation and play areas. Mithun principal Evan Bourquard, AIA will co-present this session with Haring Center director of research Kathleen Artman Meeker. We hope to see you there! https://lnkd.in/dX4e6VmB The Haring Center has been a long-time leader in early childhood learning as an interdisciplinary hub for direct education, professional development, and research. The Experimental Education Unit (EEU) serves children of all abilities from birth to kindergarten, including those on the autism spectrum, and other families not served in mainstream education. Throughout its history, Haring Center researchers have conducted critical work in teaching practices for children with developmental disabilities that have shaped the fields of special education and inclusive education. #A4LE #InclusiveDesign #DesignforPositiveChange