Colleen Sawyer

Major: B.A. Urban Planning and Sustainable Development

This is a City Hall Plaza I designed for the 2020 Urban Planning Proposals Master plan with Arlington Washington. The Arlington Art Strategic plan has an emphasis on site integrated art, such as including artistic designs in pavements. The proposed City Hall Plaza illustrates the integration of design with the application of brick patterns similar to the brick patterns used at Western Washington University’s Haskell Plaza, shown below in Figure 4.31. Where Haskell plaza utilizes yellow bricks to represent the San Juan Island marine currents, the proposed City Hall plaza shows the use of blue bricks to represent the Stillaguamish River.

This is an article I wrote, about the impacts of conventional burial and the rise of eco-friendly death care, for the Planet Magazine.