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| By 1988, the 20 year playground in Seattle's Historic Volunteer Park had become dilapidated and dangerous.
A community group formed to work with Seattle's Department of Parks and Recreation to redesign, fund raise and
build a new play yard, with Debrah Walker as the Design Committee Chairperson. She played a major role in all
public meetings and fund raising efforts, and in 1990 was contracted by the Department of Parks and Recreation as
the project's architect to complete the architectural design, drawings and construction observation for the project.
The design successfully met the complex challenges of changing a dark, damp and sloping site into a series of
terraces with diverse play and socializing opportunities, opening the site up for better light and visibility, creating a
timeless setting and structure for the historic trees and play equipment, and respecting the Olmstedian tradition of space
and materials.
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