KIRKLAND
Kirkland / Totem Lake HOV Walls
2005-2007, Kirkland, WA
Vicki Scuri SiteWorks with WSDOT
Sponsored by Sound Transit, WSDOT and City of Kirkland
Kirkland, known as the city of trees, defines its downtown core
with maple trees. Totem Lake, a suburban enclave north of the core is
best known for its historic marsh, open space and naturalistic environs.
This project celebrates the maple seed as if it is blown across land and
water in a musical cadence to transform MSE HOV lane walls that mark
the Totem Lake neighborhood along Interstate 405. The project includes
30,000 sq. feet of poured-in-place concrete and precast concrete MSE
panels. The walls rise from 5-feet to 25-feet creating a crescendo of
geometry and pattern work celebrating the landscape and transforming
the infrastructure.
Inspired by Henry David Thoreau's last manuscript, The
Dispersion of Seeds, suggesting that the growth of communities is like
the dispersion of seeds, creating great potential and diversity, a forest of
possibilities.
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