CONNECTING WITH THE ALA WAI PROJECT TEAM
This year-long studio was aimed to engage local communities in Honolulu’s Ala Wai watershed to develop a water infrastructure design that focuses on the indigenous practices in contrast to common westernized watershed interventions. We explored landscape architecture and design with an emphasis on the urban landscape where ecology plays a significant role in the design interventions. Coursework for this studio included a literature review, design research, community engagement, conceptual design, and presentations by faculty and students. Eventually, this interdisciplinary studio will develop a site-specific design to showcase how our community engaged water system design can bring the “water is life” concept by the winners of the 2016 Make the Ala Wai Awesome challenge into fruition.
Matthew Favazzo
Ren Anders
B.S.L.A. Canidate 2019 Matthew has focused his landscape design studies on environmental justice and sustainable communities. Upon graduating, he hopes to use his design experience to empower underserved communities, influence public policy, and create more sustainable landscapes.
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B.S. sustainability MLA Candidate 2020 Born and raised in the desert, Ren Andres has a deep affinity for her home’s unique environment and is driven by making nature and its healing benefits accessible to all in the city.
Victor Habib Soudani
Zhuyi Yue
B.S.L.A MLA Candidate 2020 Mary wants to use landscape design methods to make a connection between people and nature. Hopefully, the landscape could change humans behavior in the future.
B.S., ASLA MLA Candidate 2020 Victor’s approach to landscape architecture and urban design is rooted in a respect for the natural ecology of the site, combined with sensibilities to the human experience. Inspired by his Pacific Islander wife and daughter, as well as by his own diverse ethnic background, Victor’s priority is to respect all cultures through design work that is resilient, functional and timeless.
Brian Rojas
Yumeng Xie
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BA, MFA PHD Candidate A 2nd year PhD student in Design, Environment and the Arts of ASU. Before coming to ASU, she had interdisciplinary work experience in China. Currently, her PhD research interests are Transdisciplinarity in Design Education, Sustainability, Environmental Design, Culture Identity. Yumeng Xie plans to back to China to be a faculty in university when she gets her PhD degree.
B.SB.M, MARC PHD Candidate Currently a PhD student at the Herberger School for Design and the Arts, Brian’s area of research is about design for sustainable development focusing on integrating principles of ecological design with practical applications in architecture, construction and urban land-use development.
Case Studies
Literature Review
Tanner Springs Park Portland, OR Scale: 0.92 acre Year of Completion: 2010 Designer: Atelier Dreiseitl and Green Works
The park’s design draws inspiration from the area’s original natural state, before it became an industrial site and marshalling yard. Its wetland character was restored in an urban setting by including water features, reintroducing groundwater and planting suitable vegetation.
Yanweizhou Park, Jinhua, China
Scale: 62.4acre Designer: Turenscape Year of Completion: 2014
The Aloha+ Challenge is a statewide commitment to achieve 6 interconnected sustainability goals for 2030, and is recognized as a localized framework for the global United 1.CLEAN ENERGY
3.NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
70% clean energy : 40% from renewables & 30% from efficiency
This park now features great islands of terraced plants which slow flooding down and absorb water. In doing so, the water feeds nutrient-rich silt to the plant life which then grows stronger, elaborating networks of root structures which hold the ground below in place.
Napa River Flood Protection Project Napa, CA
2.LOCAL FOOD
Scale: 1,011 acres Designer: MIG, Inc. Year of Completion: Expected 2015
5.SMART SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Reverse the trend of natural resource loss MAUKA to MAKAI by increasing freshwater security, watershed protection, comunity-based marine management, invasive species control and restoration of native species.
increase livability and resilience in the built enviroment through planning and implementation at the state and county levels
4.SOLID WASTE REDUCTION
6.GREEN WORKFORCE AND EDUCATION
reduce the solid waste stream prior to disposal by 70% through source reduction, recycling, bioconversion and landfill diversion methods
atleast double local food production: 20-30% of food consumed is grown locally
increase local green jobs and education to implement these goals
The Napa River Flood Control Project restored 1,011 acres of floodplain, wetlands, and riparian habitats through terracing, the breaching of old dikes and levees along 3.5 miles of river, and the installation of over 1,700 feet of floodwalls in the downtown Napa reach.
L.I.D. TOOL KIT
SITE LOCATION
GREEN STREET VEGITATED SWALE BIORETENTION PERMIABLE PAVING CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS
RAINFALL INTENSITY
INFULTRATION & UNDERDRAINS
LAND DIVISION
GREENROOFS LANDSCAPEING LOW IMPCT DEVELOPMENT TOOLKIT PROPAIRD FOR THE CITY OF MESA AZ, BY LOGAN SIMPSON AND DIBBLE ENGINERING
AHUPUA’A
TRADITIONAL AHUPUA’A LOCATION MARKERS
A MODEL FOR A SUSTAINABLE STEWARDSHIP
The ancient ahupua`a, the basic self-sustaining unit, extended elements of Hawaiian spirituality into the natural landscape. Amidst a belief system that emphasized the interrelationship of elements and beings, the ahupua`a contained those interrelationships in the activities of daily and seasonal life.
WATER FLOWS FORM MAUKA TO MAKAI LAND AND RESOURCES HELD IN THE COMMONS AND COLLECTIVELY MANAGED COMMUNITY BASED FOOD SYSTEM THAT IS SELF SUFICENT AND RESILANT NATURALLY ALL FOOD CONSUMED IN HAWAII IS PRODUCED LOCALLY
MATTHEW FAVAZZO
Aloha – Welcome and pay respect to the presence of water in the landscape.
B.S.L.A. CANDIDATE 2019
This design concept is based on a sequence called Aloha – Ola – Mahalo. Aloha is the Hawaiian word for hello or welcome. The aloha spirit is about welcoming others and sharing a mutual respect, when we apply this spirit to storm water management, we welcome water into our landscapes and respect its presence. Ola translates to life. In a landscape, water is the source that gives life to all plants and animals. Through design, we can show that we cherish the life that water gives us and manage water in a way that enhances and nourishes all life. In the final stage, Mahalo, we give thanks to the water and express our g ratitude through the landscape. We do this by celebrating and acknowledging the importance of water, then allowing it to flow through its natural cycle.
Ola – Manage water responsibly to allow it to enhance and nourish all life.
Mahalo – Give thanks to the water and celebrate its importance in the landscape.
MARY YUE
REN ANDRES
M.L.A. CANDIDATE 2020
M.L.A. CANDIDATE 2020
The most significant idea about this concept is used stormwater catchment system to clean water and reduce the flooding issue. People in Hawaii like to plant taro in farmland, and the catchment system could clean the water before flows to the ponds. Kids can have an outside activity here to learn how to plant taro with farmers. Students can have experiments here to use a test tube to test the water quality and learn water conservation. Three benefits from this concept are land use multifunction; kids education and taro planting.
VICTOR SOUDANI
MAUKA TO MAKAI
M.L.A. CANDIDATE 2020
FROM RIDGE TO REEF
My conceptual design is inspired by the kanaka Hawaiian Ahupua’a system of land management and resource division. 1st part is where we welcome the water on site. 2nd we celebrate the wealth the water provides. 3rd we celebrate water for all the life it has given us. In my design I have focused around these principles, 1st to capture and contain, 2nd filtration and infiltration, 3rd the reintroduction of indigenous vegetation.When weconnect the Spirituality of the Hawaiian people with the techniques of the low impact development tool kit we can properly address the watershed isues.
FOCUS ON THE 3 THINGS
THE HAWAIIAN AHUPUA’A
FORESTZONE
AGRICULTURE ZONE
These conceptual principles were inspired by the tour we took of a LOI’ at the University of Hawaii Manoa metaphorical connection between the diversion and flow of live-giving water through a LOI’ and the diversion and flow of water through a green infrastructure system. Divert, flow, and nourish are all principles extracted from this phenomenon that occurs in both LOI’ and green infrastructure systems. Upon a closer look, the kalo itself in its cultivation bed is rich with metaphor and representation of Hawaiian values. These metaphorical connections themselves are also being extracted as design principles. Each part of the kalo plant represents a component of the Hawaiian culture and values that we learned about during our field trip. The life-giving, photosynthesizing, protective leaves represent generation. The stem represents connection, a crucial step that enables collaboration and true progress to be made. Connected to the stem is the kalo corm, representing nourishment of the Big Brother to the Hawaiian people and healing. And growing out from the kalo corm are the roots, which represent the indigenous heritage of Hawaii that the people respect and consult with such reverence.
LIVING ZONE
- CAPTURE & CONTAINMENT
4. AERATION USING A WATERFALL TO AERATE THE WATER = MORE OXYGEN IN THE WATER
- FILTER / INFILTRATION - INDIGONOUS VEGITATION
WATTER IS LIFE
TRADITIONAL HAWAIIAN LOOKING DRY STACKED WALLS TO AERATE AND OXYGENATE
5. BIOREMEDIATION THE USE OF EITHER NATURALLY OCCURING OR DELIBERATLY INTRODUCING MICROORGANISMS OR OTHER FORMS OF LIFE TO CONSUME AND BREAKDOWN ENVIROMENTAL POLLUTANTS, IN ORDER TO CLEAN UP A POLLUTED SITE.
THE USE OF PLANTS TO FILTER AND HELP INFILTRATION
3. 1ST STAGE OF FILTRATION 1. COLLECTION
ACUMULATOR PLANTS
HEAVY METAL’S
2. SEDIMANT SEPERATION - CATCH BASINS 6. INDIGENOUS VEGETATION - CHANELS / RUNNELS
AEROBIC
- USE THE CLEAN FILTERED WATER TO CREATE A INDIGENOUS GARDEN
PUMP
- CURB CUTS - EZ CHANELS - SWALES
MOVEMENT OF WATER
PLAY
THE SITE MUST HAVE A COMPONENT FOR THE KIDS TO PLAY = EDUCATIONAL PLAY
TRANSPORTATION OF RESOURCES
MOVEMENT OF LIFE
RETENTION TO INFILTRATION
7. RETENTION
THE LAST STAGE OF FILTRATION IS A RETENTION BASIN = INFILTRATION AND REDISTRBUTION TO THE WATERSHED
CLEAN WATER REINTRODUCED TO WATERSHED/ STREAM/ STORM WATER SYSTEM
LDE 521: Fall 2018 Collaborative Landscape Architecture Design Studio
Student: K. Andres, M. Favaz, B. Rojas, V. Soudani, Y. Xie, Z. Yue Instructor: Chingwen Cheng