Kaluaopalena is a community garden site for the adjacent housing project and surrounding community, and requested a small outdoor structure. The Hoʻolaʻa Hale Kuʻikahi was designed was to provide shade and security on a tight budget, while maintaining covered and flexible space for various groups to use. The design utilizes distributes lateral and gravity loads onto an old existing slab to minimize new foundation work. Raised planting beds integrated into the structure will grow cultural vegetables and medicinal plants that will eventually cover the structure.
