PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE
American Institute of Architects: Conference on Architecture & Design
Holistic Housing Design Toolkit
Hawai‘i Housing Lab’s Holistic Housing Design Toolkit will be presented at the 2024 AIA National Conference on Architecture and Design, which will be held June 5-8 in Washington, DC.
June 5, 2024
HOUSING SYMPOSIUM
Housing Works: Turning Research to Action for Equitable Housing
Hawai‘i Housing Lab
Hawai‘i Housing Lab was invited to share its efforts during the “Enabling Equitable Housing: Examples from the Field” presentations and panel discussion event at the “Housing Works: Turning Research to Action for Equitable Housing Winter Symposium” at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Panelists included Dana Cuff of cityLAB, UCLA, and Martha Galvez of Housing Solutions Lab, NYU Furman Center with a keynote by Karen Chapple, Director of the School of Cities at the University of Toronto.
March 11, 2024
ACADEMIC COLLABORATION
Cal Poly Pomona
Carbon Neutral Design Studio
A collaboration with the Carbon-Neutral Design Studio taught at Cal Poly Pomona’s College of Environmental Design by Professor Pablo La Roche, PhD was held during the Fall 2023 semester. Karla Sierralta served as advisor for the studio which explored housing solutions for mid-density projects on three Hawaiian islands centered on the Holistic Housing Design Toolkit.
Fall 2023
TRAVELING EXHIBITION
Density Alphabet
Holistic Housing Design Toolkit
The Density Alphabet traveling exhibit was piloted at the Campus Design Lab at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa for the Executive Director of the Hawai’i Public Housing Authority, Hakim Ouansafi. Composed of an array of twenty-six models, the massing variations visualize density possibilities from low to high rise for rural to urban locations.
Summer 2023
AWARD
ACSA Architectural Education Awards
Future of Hawai'i’s Housing
The Future of Hawai‘i’s Housing project is recognized with the Collaborative Practice Award at the 2022 ACSA Architectural Education Awards. “Established in 1997 by Thomas Dutton and Anthony Schuman to recognize ACSA’s commitment to community partnerships in which faculty, students and neighborhood citizens are valued equally and that aim to address issues of social injustice through design.”
Announcement →
January 27, 2022
DESIGN AWARD
AIA Honolulu Award
Lawn Loungers
Lawn Loungers was awarded the 2020 AIA Honolulu Award - Honorable Mention, Institutional. These portable spaces for community engagement allow citizens to slow down and interact with one another while sharing their thoughts on the future of housing in Hawai‘i.
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November 2-6, 2020
PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE
EPIC 2019: Agency
Future of Hawai‘i’s Housing
A three-part toolkit was presented to and tested on attendees to the annual Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, in Providence, Rhode Island at the Rhode Island School of Design.
November 9-12, 2019
PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM
2019 Building Voices
Housing for All
Building Voices: Housing for All assembled talented individuals, work and discussions under the research focus of affordable housing. Karla Sierralta, Brian Strawn, and Cathi Ho Schar co-curated two days of conversations for the third iteration of Building Voices with thought leaders that culminated in a round table discussion gathering government agency representatives, designers, developers, and community partners to talk about the tools needed to advance the next generation of housing in Hawai‘i.
September 30-October 1, 2019
POP-UP EVENT
Honolulu Parking Day
Future of Hawai‘i’s Housing
A prototype for the digital/physical research platform and toolkit for community engagement was deployed during Parking Day at SALT in Kaka‘ako.
September 20, 2019
PUBLIC LECTURE & POP-UP EXHIBITION
Sakamaki Lecture Series
Allison Arieff: Density Done Right
Allison Arieff spotlights people, projects, ideas, and technologies that will help us get to “Density Done Right” in Hawai‘i, as part of the 2019 Sakamaki Extraordinary Lecture Series, co-curated by Brian Strawn. The lecture series and pop-up exhibit were presented in collaboration with the Outreach College at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
May 2, 2019