AIA Award of Merit 2024
The MAILE is a conceptual design for the University of Hawaii at Mānoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR), an outreach and research lab located on the Magoon research site at the north end of the Mānoa campus. The proposed design aims to embody the ethic of CTAHR’s mission to conserve, restore and produce agricultural resources beyond the larger Magoon site and University community, and experientially communicate the institution’s stewardship of the natural world. The elemental components of the project (roof, enclosure, base) find their analogs in the agricultural and natural world (plants, soil, sun, water.) Each element visually and experientially describes its functional stewardship of each site resource (orientation, light, water, food) to raise awareness of CTAHR and the University’s role in resource management, continuing to educate students, public, and/or the agriculture community. The AMA team worked in collaboration with Sasaki & Roth Ecological. Renderings in collaboration with Epic Inspired.