Kanu o ka ʻĀina Learning ʻOhana
Architects & Firms
Waimea, Hawaii
Design concept and solution: KALO needed a campus that would serve its unique educational program, modeled on the traditions of native Hawaiian families. Teachers, who are thought of as aunts and uncles, guide multiage classes through month-long projects in which students contribute to the group at their own level. The school also wanted a master plan simple enough to complete on a small budget. Flansburgh struck a residential profile with a sequence of modular, cement-board-clad, glued-laminated timber structures with alternating shed roofs that face either the Mauna Kea volcano to the southeast or the Kohala Mountains to the northwest. Each module consists of one pair of alternating roofs. The modules combine into gently curving wedges that, as new buildings are added, will form a serpentine pattern around a “piko,” or central open space—the organizing principle of Hawaiian. As KALO grows, the school can reuse Flansburgh’s design and weave additional modules around the piko, shaping the buildings’ curves to follow the topography. Inside, the architects needed to devise a flexible classroom arrangement, since KALO dispensed with grade levels and, with them, predictable class sizes. The team designed the module interiors to repeat the piko concept, so that a pair of modules forms a large central classroom surrounded by smaller classrooms and the occasional office. With folding glass walls and glass doors dividing the spaces, the interior is more akin to an open, porch-like home than to the linear layout of a typical school corridor. The classrooms on the south and west facades open onto lanais, or verandas, that are supported by ohia wood structural columns resembling tree trunks. Red cedar sunscreens and ohia windscreens complete the school’s natural palette.
PeopleClient: Kanu o ka 'Aina Learning 'Ohana Owner: Kanu o ka 'Aina Learning 'Ohana
Architect:
Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Interior designer: Bruce Danzinger
Engineers Structural: Walter Vorfeld & Associates Electrical: Moss Engineering Civil: Ken Nagai Consulting Services
Consultant(s): Proect Manager: Ken Melrose, Pa'ahana Enterprises General contractor: Quality Builders
Photographer(s): Gross square footage: 15,300 square feet Total construction cost: $6,858,656 Completion date: August 2012 |
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Structural system Exterior cladding: James Hardie Fiber Cement Siding Metal/glass storefront: Kawneer Storefront 451T, Breezeway Sliding Alumnum Doors Wood: Douglas Fir Panel Screens Curtain wall/Storefront: Kawneer Storefront 451T Other cladding unique to this project: Native Ironwood Windscreens
Roofing Windows: Altair Jalousie Louvers
Glazing Skylights: Solatube
Doors Sliding doors: FleetwoodSliding Glass Doors Special doors:Cookson Coiling Overhead Doors
Hardware Closers: Glynn-Johnson Closers
Interior finishes Suspension grid: Tectum Ceiling Panels Paints and stains: Sherwin Williams Wall coverings: Guildford of Maine Fabric Panel Covering Paneling: Gypsum Wallboard Floor and wall tile: DAL Tile in toilet rooms Carpet: Interface Stroll Series Carpeting
Lighting Downlights: Lightolier Calculite LED Pathways: Phoenix Turtle Bollard Parking Area: Visionaire Lighting Exit Signs: Lucenta Photoluminescent Exit Signs
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