Top Three Sites at Yellowstone National Park. Lamar Valley (#3), known for an abundance of wildlife, relates back to the site at Lava Lake Trailhead. Nearly half (42%) of all visitors to Yellowstone National Park pass the Lava Lake Trailhead on their way to the park.

PROBLEM:
Yellowstone National Park struggles every year with negative interactions between visitors and nature; from putting bison calves in cars to damaging sulfuric springs by walking out onto them.
THESIS:
Many of the problems that national parks face involving human-nature interactions would not occur if those visiting the parks were educated on how to interact with nature.
STRATEGY:
By capturing tourists on their way to Yellowstone National Park, the Lava Lake Wilderness Trail aims to redesign how visitors interact with nature. For those visiting the trail, every activity has an associated benefit to nature. By exposing those benefits, visitors become aware and better informed on how their actions impact the natural world.
Daylighting Studies: maximize diffused natural lighting in the visitor center and office with roof slope and direction
Material: cordwood construction sourced from the site works as fire mitigation strategy for trailhead while calling back to the area's history
DAYLIGHTING STUDIES
MATERIAL
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