The proposed 27,000 sf Campus Center provides dedicated, flexible spaces for athletics and covered gathering spaces for special events.  The building form is sensitive to the heritage of the campus and offers indoor-outdoor connected commons spaces that create new options for learning, meeting, and reflection. Designed to balance strong prevailing winds with naturally ventilated spaces, the building opens to the surrounding fields and landscape. The design adapts Parker School colors and roof forms and the new building helps to connect the variety of the campus’s existing styles and color palates.  Moments of informal interactions make Parker School’s Campus one that is conducive towards a setting that weaves together the various program sites on campus. Andrew Neuman served as design lead on the project. Architect of Record – Urban Works, Inc.

Vivistop is a non-profit engaged in the community through arts education and mentorships for local kids. As Vivistop’s first location in the US this facility is a much-needed creative center in the neighborhood hosting a maker-space, recording studio, film corner, dance studio, kitchen and flexible workspace. A soundproof recording studio is tucked inside the timber clad box featured prominently in the space, inspired by early transistor radios, with a small mezzanine and viewing platform above. The wood slats combined with an acoustic ceiling and wall panel array offer sound diffusion, surface absorption and reflection for the adjacent dance studio.

A single family residence nestled in the eucalyptus trees near the back of Palolo Valley marries the owner’s expectations for as a minimal and modern family home with the realities of a challenging site. The design resolution takes advantage of the steep slope and irregular lot as an opportunity for inspiration, creating a dynamic roof and large aperture facing the backdrop of Pukele Stream and the verdant east valley wall. The site plan layout, resulting massing, and building envelope are a direct result of transitional height setbacks and easement constraints downhill of the site. The concrete foundation and lower level bedrooms sit deep into the hillside while steel framing supports the living spaces that float nimbly above the ravine. The building footprint is reduced to maintain a significant portion of the existing riprap wall and site history.

The proposed 27,000 sf Campus Center provides dedicated, flexible spaces for athletics and covered gathering spaces for special events.  The building form is sensitive to the heritage of the campus and offers indoor-outdoor connected commons spaces that create new options for learning, meeting, and reflection. Designed to balance strong prevailing winds with naturally ventilated spaces, the building opens to the surrounding fields and landscape. The design adapts Parker School colors and roof forms and the new building helps to connect the variety of the campus’s existing styles and color palates.  Moments of informal interactions make Parker School’s Campus one that is conducive towards a setting that weaves together the various program sites on campus. Kevin Miyamura served as project architect on the project. Architect of Record – Urban Works, Inc. Photographs by Augie Salbosa.

MA`O Organic Farms exists to perpetuate sustainable agricultural practices and empower youth through mentorship and educational programs. A new organic-certified processing facility made possible by an EDA grant will allow the farm to significantly increase agricultural production in the Waianae Valley and expand food distribution to local grocers, markets, and restaurants. The structure includes a covered exterior root wash bay, automated and manual processing equipment, prep kitchen, refrigerated storage, administrative offices, and an expansive covered lanai for educational tours and observation. Large windows add natural ventilation connect to the exterior landscape and orchard. Water management is a primary goal of this project: Rain water is captured and stored; storm water is directed into bioretention swales; wash water is separated into a holding pond for irrigation; grey water and condensate are directed to grey water gardens and is naturally filtered; black water is treated on site and distributed into an absorption bed.

This 165,000sf mixed-use affordable housing development for artists in the heart of Kaka`ako received a warm welcome into a neighborhood largely defined by transition and full of creativity. Historically this area was home to early salt ponds, fishponds, fishing villages, a lively immigrant community, light industrial and commercial uses, and more recently has become a local arts district and housing development hub. Affordable rental units in a nine story structure with five levels of studio lofts, a double height level of townhouses with nineteen foot ceilings, and 7,000 sf of street level commercial space – home to a few local culture and arts, non-profit organizations. Affordable rental rates allow quality housing to become accessible for individuals and families earning thirty to sixty percent of the Area Median Income. The project was supported by a variety of local and state funding sources as well as housing tax credits, permitting and zoning exemptions. Units are arranged on two street frontages, creating a protected exterior courtyard for the residents with 10,000 sf of green space. Twelve rain water cisterns provide storm water catchment for more than fifty percent of the project footprint, feeding planter beds available to each resident. Andrew Neuman and Kevin Miyamura served as Project Architect and Design Principal. Architect of Record – Urban Works, Inc. Photographs by Andrew Richard Hara.

Kako’o ‘Oiwi is a non-profit community organization based in Windward Oahu stewarding the land management, restoration and cultivation of the Heʻeia wetlands. They seek to perpetuate Native Hawaiian cultural and agricultural practices through the restoration of the wetlands and its wildlife, the propagation of native plants, food production and security.  The new 4,000 sf poi mill, commercial kitchen and covered exterior education lanai is an essential element that supports their rigorous daily programming, serving as both an education space and processing facility supplying poi and fresh produce for local market. The form of the building was derived from a diagram of sustainability metrics and the local microclimate: prevailing trade winds & rain patterns, solar energy harvesting, natural ventilation and daylighting. The rhythm of the folded wood structure makes reference to and frames views of the Ko’olau mountains surrounding landscape.

This project was designed to be a multipurpose and multifunctional workspace and shelter for many intersecting users. This building is a community-centered resource, creating space for wood milling, woodworking, canoe building, gathering, cooking, resting, and sharing stories. The structure will be clad with invasive wood species harvested from the site through land restoration and management efforts. The wood screen creates large outdoor protected areas from the rain and interior areas stippled with diffused natural light. The roof acts as a rainwater collector with storage tanks located below the kitchen. The building and design is firmly rooted in place and community.