PROJECT DESCRIPTION
An interactive, graphic, spatial construct, an urban installation, and a space-making device that provides communal seating for both indoor and outdoor settings highlights the complexity posed by the superimposition of indigenous, settler and visitor cultures in Hawaiʻi.
COMMISSIONED FOR
Design Islands was commissioned for the inaugural Building Voices Festival. It was supported in part by the UHM School of Architecture Advancement Fund and the Haigo and Irene Shen Architecture Gallery.
IMPACT
AIA Honolulu Award 2017, Honorable Mention Institutional
Installed at: The Hawaiʻi State Capitol (04/22/17), the Hawaiʻi Convention Center for the Polynesian Voyaging Society, Hōkūleʻa welcome event (06/20/17), the UHM SoA for Building Voices Housing for All (09/30-10/01/19).
Presented at: The 2017 ACSA Fall Conference in Marfa, TX and the 2017 World Design Summit in Montreal, Canada.
Hawai‘i State Capitol Earth Day 2017
Design Islands welcomes the Hōkūleʻa after circumnavigating the globe at the Polynesian Voyaging Society Benefit Gala held at the Honolulu Convention Center. The Wishing Wall was sponsored by Hawaiian Airlines, June 20, 2017.
TEAM
Design Leads
Karla Sierralta, AIA
Brian Strawn, AIA
Construction Leads
Mike Poscablo
Marshall Prather
Fabrication Team
Crysta Alcantar, Keola Annino, Chloe Bennie, Josephine Briones, Calvin Bulan, Stephanie Cass, Austin Chun, Marcos Cruz-Ortiz, Kathleen Eagan, Tyler Francisco, Christopher Gaydosh, Celeste Guarin, Jason Hashimoto, Kristoffer Jugueta, Creesha Layaden, Jacob Marsicek, Shelby Mendes, Blair Muraoka, Melise Nekoba, Khoa Nguyen, James Noh, Rebecca Ogi, Katherine Pananganan, Jonathan Quach, Gladys Razos, Poutasi Seiuli, Siraj Sheri, Christopher Songvilay, Bryson Tabaniag, Ivy Tejada, My Tran, Morgan Wynne, Kristyn Yamamotoya , Noelle Yempuku, Han Ming Yu
Special Thanks to
Steve Hill, Cathi Ho Schar, Keala Monaco, UHM SoA Dean Daniel Friedman, and University of Hawaiʻi President David Lassner
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