University of Hawai'i at Mānoa School of Architecture

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Congratulations again to Karla Sierralta, Brian Strawn, and their entire team for receiving a 2022 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award for the Future of Hawaii’s Housing research project. Incredibly happy to see them receive this well-deserved recognition in-person at the ACSA annual meeting and awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

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Career Fair at School of Architecture Courtyard -4pm today! Stop by to meet and learn about the architecture firms here today!

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We are so fortunate that our Hawaii climate ☀️🌴 allows us to interact comfortably outdoors in the winter!
This semester’s ARCH 743 urban design studio “Nature-based Climate Adaptation Design for Waikiki”, which brings grad students in architecture and landscape architecture together, kicked things off in the courtyard on Monday—before migrating to Zoom until the Omicron situation improves. Fingers crossed this spike will subside quickly and we can move to in-person studio instruction soon! 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

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As the year comes to an end, please join us in taking a look back at one of our online exhibitions: Crossing Boundaries: Spatial Overlap in Far Eastern Art and American Architecture. This exhibit also features an interview series with several notable architects, artists, historians, and their notions about crossing boundaries.

Link is in bio!
https://uhsoashengallery.com/Crossing-Boundaries

We would like to give a heartfelt congratulations to our 2021 Bachelor of Environmental Design and Doctor of Architecture Graduates!

Students in our special topics ARCH 490 course taught by Bundit Kanisthakhon presented their proposals for a revitalized Palama Settlement located in the Kalihi-Palama area.

The projects aimed to integrate the community with existing site programs while also providing accessible areas for gathering, play, and socialization.

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Impressions from our second-year ARCH 761 Ecology, Community, and Design studio presentations: “Kapi'olani Park: Towards a Plural Picturesque.”

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Some initial Zoom screenshot impressions from Monday’s final presentation in ARCH 651 Fundamentals of Landscape Design taught by , which started our studio review week. Students in this first-semester MLA I course have explored conceptual site design opportunities for the open space surrounding the Ossipoff Cabin in Pālehua.

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Zoom screenshots from this afternoon’s ARCH 763 studio presentation. In their project, and Camilla B. studied opportunities to introduce green stormwater infrastructure elements along the UH Manoa campus’ central east-west axis while simultaneously addressing circulation and placemaking considerations.

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‼️Calling all UHM Architecture Students‼️

We will be hosting a tutorial for Photoshop and Indesign run by Kris Jugueta! .jugueta

Event is Dec, 7 @ 6pm

Please come and attend!

Zoom link was sent via email.

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If interested in learning more about our degrees and Fall 2022 admissions, please SAVE THE DATE and plan to join us for our December 3, 2021 Virtual Open House. The event will start at 3:00 PM HST. Feel free to DM for the Zoom meeting registration link. 😊🌱
 

Congratulations to alumnus on his 2021 HI ASLA Student Honor Award! Mahalo, and chapter members.

Student: Matthew Higa, MLA ’21

Course: Spring 2021 ARCH 764 Capstone Studio: Research & Design

Capstone committee: Judith Stilgenbauer (chair) ; Phoebe White ; Priyam Das

Traditional Native Hawaiian land management practices developed deceptively simple, naturalized biocultural technologies. This project investigates the terraforming system known as loʻi wai (stormwater redistribution system.) The loʻi wai irrigated loʻi kalo (taro pond fields), which supported large-scale food forests, enhanced watershed performance, created synanthropic ecosystems, and connected people to each other and their local natural resources.

Kuauna, earthen embankments, facilitated the organization and dispersal of stormwater, wai, throughout the loʻi wai system. Additionally, kuauna provided crop windbreaks, expanded growing areas, and connected communities.

Today, ca. 90% of Hawaiʻi’s consumable goods are imported and only approx. 400 acres of loʻi kalo systems remain statewide. Climate change is projected to increase severe stormwater events and native habitat degradation. Hawaiʻiʻs urbanization decreases opportunities for groundwater recharge. This applied design research project investigates the multifaceted ways in which loʻi wai and kuauna can be interpreted to improve Hawaiʻiʻs climate change resilience.

This project was inspired by and a beneficiary of the stewardship and ʻike kūpuna of Kākoʻo ʻŌiwi, a non-profit organization that manages 405 acres of wetland in Heʻeia, Oʻahu.

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The University of Hawai 'i Community Design Center is assisting the Agribusiness Development Corporation (ADC) with continued planning and design process for an agricultural Food Hub in the Whitmore area.

Please join us on Friday, November 19, 2021 anytime between 4:00 - 6:30pm at the Whitmore Community Park Gym. We will have informational stations set up to discuss the project goals, proposed uses, community benefits, and to gather community feedback, questions, and concerns.

ARCH 101 students mapping boundaries on the site located in the Kaka'ako district. This semester the "Interconnected Environments" exercise of the first year studio is focusing on imagining small urban interventions that enhance public spaces along the future rail in collaboration with the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation.

Congratulations to student Emily Sobolewski Knight on her 2021 HI ASLA Student Merit Award! Mahalo to and its members for supporting our MLA students.

Project: Flowing into the Bishop

Student: Emily Sobolewski Knight, MLA Candidate

Course: Spring 2021 ARCH 652 Site Design Studio

Instructor: Simon Bussiere, ASLA

This first-year MLA site design studio project focuses on the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum’s campus. The guiding design principle is to create a new entrance that is transitional, sequential, and multi-functional. The proposed entrance is broken up into three zones: a pollinator garden, a dry upland garden, and a native cultural garden.

The design integrates shaded seating areas that are framed by native plantings and undulating berms, and that allow for pop-up exhibitions. The new entrance path blends into the surrounding planted spaces and grass berms, allowing for extended spaces of pause, while blurring the hard boundary between public and private. It becomes a gathering space for the adjacent community.

Congratulations to alumnus Jay Moorman on his 2021 HI ASLA Student Honor Award! Mahalo, and chapter members for your continued support of our students.

Project: What It Means To Be A Stream: resurrecting channelized streams, community, and resiliency on Oahu

Student: Jay Moorman, DArch, MLA

Course: Spring 2021 ARCH 764 Capstone Studio: Research & Design

Capstone committee: Simon Bussiere (chair), Phoebe White, Karla Sierralta

This project is a two-part consideration of a current challenge. Through research and design, Jay Moorman sought to answer the question: “How do we optimize stream geomorphology, hydrology, and ecology to stimulate community and resiliency in the face of climate change and sea level rise?”

The core principles of the project are streams, community, and resiliency. Streams of Oahu, once valued as a life-sustaining resource, have been conscripted for storm water conveyance and mutilated to increase land available for development and to protect property. Resurrecting channelized, urban streams will re-invigorate community connection to fresh water resources and foster resiliency.

This design research project studied a specific community, Hauula, through outreach and mapping to validate conclusions. In his work, Jay envisions a stream-centric community common to replace the concrete-lined scar disconnected from people and place. He considered individual stakeholders and mini sites, and designed interventions that resurrect Waipuhi Stream and increase its capacity to absorb climate change-related shock events and sea level rise-related chronic flooding.

Congratulations to student Delphine Homerowski on her 2021 HI ASLA Student Merit Award! Mahalo, and chapter members for your continued support of our students.

Project: Site Design Studio—Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum

Student: Delphine Homerowski, MLA Candidate

Course: Spring 2021 ARCH 652 Site Design Studio

Instructor: Simon Bussiere, ASLA

Delphine Homerowski’s proposed design is inspired by a conversation in which the Bishop Museum leadership expressed their desire to create a site that would put an emphasis on community, outdoor use, and enhancing native stories. The project focuses on the great lawn—the primary gathering center on the campus—incorporating five main design principles: extension, pause, socializing, ecology and light.
Four large terraces span across the great lawn, paired with a culturally sensitive plant palette to support educational and cultural events at the museum, and to provide additional shade. Two swales, integrated on either side of the lawn, direct excess rainwater into a loʻi patch at the site’s low point. A gentle slope on the left of the lawn guides visitors.

Overall, the proposed design aims to create opportune conditions for gathering and for the museum experience to be brought to the outdoors, in a culturally relevant vegetated landscape that accounts for the existing hydrology of the site, while allowing for flexibility and functionality.

ARCH 101 students exploring geometry, space and order with two and three dimensional compositions.

Congratulations to alumnus Shun Ishimine on his 2021 HI ASLA Student Honor Award! Mahalo, and chapter members for your continuing support of our students.

Project: Restoring Symbiotic Aquaculture
Student: Shun Ishimine, MLA’21 ()
Course: Spring 2021 ARCH 764 Capstone Studio: Research & Design
Capstone committee: Phoebe White, ASLA (chair) , Simon Bussiere, ASLA

This project investigates shoreline adaptation to upcoming climate and environmental changes. Restoring Symbiotic Aquaculture explores the contemporary ecological design potentials of traditional Hawaiian aquaculture and fishponds. With the steep decline in fishpond numbers, Oahu and the state lost important high performing nature-based infrastructure elements. In light of ongoing and projected climate and environmental threats, Hawaiian fishpond performance has to be reevaluated from various perspectives. Contemporary interpretations and design applications of traditional Hawaiian aquaculture systems, such as fishponds, have the potential to become catalysts for sea level rise adaptation and restore symbiotic relationships between people and ecology.

Congratulations to student Lynn Mayekawa on her 2021 HI ASLA Student Merit Award! Mahalo, and chapter members for your continuing support of our students.

Project: Living Edge: Waikīkī Memorial Park
Student: Lynn Mayekawa, MLA Candidate ()
Course: Spring 2020 ARCH 652 Site Design Studio
Instructor: Phoebe White, ASLA ()

Waikīkī War Memorial Complex is most recognizable for the Natatorium’s beaux arts arches. While indicative of the zeitgeist at inception, it is now an indelible feature of Waikīkī’s shoreline. The Natatorium as living memorial is not static but a public space the community redefines and owns. More importantly, even a deteriorated Natatorium gives life to a beloved beach: Kaimana. This project recognizes the existing war memorial and memorial park as well as an imbued memorialization of life rooted in the ocean. Living Edge: Waikīkī Memorial Park incorporates the symbolism and impact of this saltwater pool into a new memorial: where Waikīkī relies on the constructed sea wall to maintain its shoreline, Kaimana relies on the Natatorium’s sea wall to maintain its beach. The newly designed Kahanamoku Living Memorial flows, forming a naturalistic sea wall to maintain the beach and an intertidal zone to seed corals, mollusks and bivalves that support healthier oceans. This makes way for a circular deck to mimic the formality of the arches and return a contemplative aspect to the Natatorium.

In the UH News, Keli’i Kapali was recognized for her DArch project “Indigenizing Urban Spaces,” which “proposed an innovative planning and design framework to rethink urban spaces through an Indigenous lens and a whole systems approach.”

Thank you to the DArch committee Karla Sierralta (chair), Konia Freitas, and Kuhaʻo Zane, for guiding Keli’i on her project!

Please check out the article at https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2021/10/26/indigenous-design-architecture/

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Learn about topics for spring electives and studios in this Friday’s All-School Meeting! Zoom info and password was sent via email.

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Thank you all for coming out to our first event of the semester! We’re so lucky we can gather comfortably outdoors, and please extend another thank you to for his amazing presentation! And stay tuned for our next event coming up soon 👀

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Please consider registering for this year's triennial Hawaii ASLA design awards presentation to be held virtually on October 29 at 5 PM HST!
This’ll be a great opportunity to network, see recent, award-winning student & professional landscape architecture work in the state, and support your , , , and peers who will be recognized during the event (https://www.hawaiiasla.org/events).

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Dr. Andy Kaufman’s ARCH 634/ TPSS 634 Landscape Plants: Identification and Use class, which brings and
students together, utilizing our beautiful as an outdoor learning laboratory for plant walks. Check out the awe-inspiring baobab tree located near the building! 🌳🌴🌱







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Please join us in congratulating and her team of and research/design staff & graduate students on their Hawaii Chapter of the 2021 Urban Design Award!

The State of Hawaii Office of Planning and Sustainable Development has served as the client for this two-year, state-funded applied research, analysis, and proof-of-concept design project, which investigates public waterfront access and nature-based climate adaptation solutions for the urban center of Honolulu.

South Shore project team credits:
Principal Investigator: Judith Stilgenbauer, Professor
Project Manager: Hayley Diamond, Senior Research Associate
Project Designers: Diane Moore, Research Associate; Ariel Dungca, Research Associate
Student Project Assistants: Jonathan Quach, Valerie Ribao, Calvin Bulan, Jay Moorman, Matthew Higa, Gabrielle Lapinig