TABLE OF CONTENTS2-3 CRAFT

4-5 MUSIC

6-9 RURAL GARDEN DESIGNS

10-11 PHOTOGRAPHY

12-17 URBAN GARDEN DESIGN

18-19 FROM THE SKETCHBOOK

20-23 LARCH 300

24-25 GOOGLE SKETCHUP ART

26-29 PHOTOSHOP ART

30-33 ARCH 210

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View of an emptied Rattlesnake Lake bed near North Bend, revealing the corpses of trees.

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A collaboration with my father, Roger Cash, a skilled wood craftsman. We built my acoustic guitar by hand.

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BEFORE AFTER

Th is Page shows some experiments with stick

art (above), and the cleaning up and

re-purposing of an overgrown lake edge.

Th e trellis shown to the right was designed by

my mother, Judy Cash, who inspired me to

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Th is place in Woodinville, WA (on Cottage Lake) was my home for several years, where my passion for design originated and I began manipulating the world around me. Th is was also my fi rst experience with a community that shared a common space as there were fi ve residential structures on several acres. What I noticed was as the gardens took shape the community changed and the garden was the feature that attracted a new group of people to the environment. I found the act of imagination and design/build to be quite satisfying. Th is photo shows a fountain I designed and the “house of sod” fashioned from the sod removed to create the garden areas. Behind is a greenhouse I built which we used to grow plants for the gardens.

Where there once was a lawn, a garden emerges

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A Lake-House Garden Project

Woodinville, WA

A design in collaboration with my wife Kristen Cash

Photograph of forest in Elwa Washington summer 200910

Photograph of Happiness at the Olympic Sculpture Park

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ABOVE:A view down my implied river-bed

OPPOSITE:Several sketches from the initial stages of design,

that landed me the opportunity to work

on this project.

Th e Marwood Apartments in Capitol Hill (Seattle, WA) is where I currently call home. Th is project was my fi rst

experience with site analysis and craft ing a design with sketches to propose to the building owner. Th e owner

wanted a low maintenance solution, that has year round interest. Th ere were many design problems to address including poor soil, transient and pet intrusion, arid

conditions during the summer, low light exposure, a shoe string budget with limited choices for gaining materials

and limited time to work on the project consistently. Th e following pages show a progression through time. I amended the soil by sift ing through every square inch

of dirt by hand. I added nutrients and allowed the beds to lay fallow. I used my knowledge of building systems to design/

install a drip irrigation system. I craft ed an implied river bed with local rock materials. I installed a brick border and iron

fence, as well as trees and a scooped stone feature. Th en I began to fi ll the palette I created with plants.

ABOVE:ABOVE:A view down my A view down my implied river-bedimplied river-bed

OPPOSITE:OPPOSITE:Several sketches Several sketches from the initial from the initial stages of design, stages of design,

that landed me the that landed me the opportunity to work opportunity to work

on this project.on this project.

THE MARWOOD PROJECT

BEFORE

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AFTER In Process

AFTER

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A study of Francis D.K. Ching’s book “Architecture: Form Space and Order”.

A sketch from a concept project I am currently working on.

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I have a deep reverence for trees. This page from my sketchbook explores the diversity and

complexity of their various forms, and asks: what level of detail is necessary to convey the

individuality of a specific tree?

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LARCH 300 Assignment 3-D model of “Caring”.Front side depicting mother feeding her child.

Reverse side shows the sadness experienced with death of a loved one.

Th is page shows a sketch from myLARCH 300 design of Campus Parkway.Th is side view looks East towards campus at Brooklyn Ave. I imagine a future where the building roofs are an extension of the Earth below.

Th e following page shows the various models I tried out during my creative process, leading up to the fi nal design for the Campus Parkway project.

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FINAL DESIGN

What I learned

from this process is that many different

ideas need to be explored and imagined, without being

committed to a single design. Collaboration and re-invention is crucial.

With this model, I imagined a huge rooftop garden at the Brooklyn node connecting all dorm buildings.

This model investigates the scale of space between dorm buildings, and the possibilities of elevated planes.

This model elaborates on the idea of raising a pedestrian bridge to connect the dorms with campus.

My exploration of a tunnel and large covered roof over an elevated pedestrian walkway that extends from the four dorm buildings at Brooklyn and flows directly over the Henry Art Museum Roof.

In my final version, I incorporated the rooftops of the new dorm buildings. The roofs are a potential source of rain retention when connected to a bioswale underneath an elevated pathway. Supports could be water retention silos. Utilities and bus cabling could be incorporated into the support framework. The rain water could be re-used instead of running off towards Portage Bay.

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For the LARCH 300 fi nal design, I created this sketchup scene of Campus Parkway using my own forms and various elements already created and available in the sketchup warehouse.

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Photoshop is fascinating and so is endless tinkeringwith many different things, and settlinginto the dream

Th is is the result of an experiment using vector shapes and images I took from Volunteer Park and Th e Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle.

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One of my earliest compositions with mass/void, where I realized the value of negative space as a way of revealing form.

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Blind Contour Drawings

ARCH 210

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I took the advice of JoAnne Edwards and Julie Johnson, who encouraged me to challenge myself with ARCH 210. The investigations into spatial thinking, and introduction to the Adobe suite of software have been valuable tools to add to my understanding of communicating design.

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I’ve spent years preparing for this opportunity. My path has led me

here. I’m ready to jump in head fi rst and give everything I’ve got, so that I can be an asset to the University of

Washington and the world.

Gabriel Cash

From Seattle to Homer Alaska along the Cassiar Highway.

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2,728 mile adventure in the wild frontier.