WATER IS LIFE FROM RIDGE TO REEF Indigenous Hawaiians understood water is a source of life and treated it as such. Currently, water is treated as an inconvenience, nuisance, and danger. It is channeled, contained, controlled. Regenerating the Ala Wai Ahupua’a requires treating water as a valued source of life.
RATIONALE Private rights have public responsibilities
Privatization of watershed
Watershed determined life
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Indigenous Practices
Industrial Development
Contemporary Ahupua’a Waterhoods
Degenerative
Responsive
Regenerative
By using indigenous Hawaiian knowledge and practices that were implemented to create prosperous, vital, responsive Ahupua’a systems, current degenerative industrial practices can be transformed into those of a contemporary Ahupua’a to be prosperous, vital, and regenerative.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES The Ala Wai Ahupua’a was a prosperity system for all life that, through spirituality and the resulting values and actions of reciprocity and responsibility, perpetuated vitality throughout the system and fostered regeneration of the system as a whole. Spirituality: the awareness and experience of belonging to the larger, interconnected
community of life, of the purpose and meaning of life within this context, and the development of personal and community values and actions out of these Reciprocity: mutual exchange, dependence, action, or influence Responsibility: the state or act of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one’s power, control, or management Vitality: life force and capacity to live and develop with meaning and purpose Prosperity: the condition of thriving, growing and developing vigorously These principles form the core of our approach to ecosystem restoration; flood
mitigation; community education and engagement, cultural connections; community access, mobility, and recreation; and economic health and resilience.
URBANIZATION 1898
Current
1934
CHALLENGES Pollution: The Ala Wai Canal is currently the most polluted body of water in the state. It concentrates storm water from the watershed above. Flooding: A 1% chance storm in the Ala Wai Watershed will flood Waikiki. Fragmentation: Current environmental efforts within the Ala Wai Watershed address disparate environmental problems. DESIGN STRATEGIES We propose 4 key design strategies: planning can begin within 12 months:
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Waterwalk: Boardwalk + passive flood protection = amenity armament (12 - 48 months)
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Watercourse: Golf course + wetland = recreational ecology (48 - 72 months)
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Waterview: Retention + development = infrastructure fund (48 - 72 months)
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Waterhoods: Storm-watershed + neighborhood = distributed watershed management (12 months - ongoing)
Each of these strategies engages indigenous knowledge to create the foundation of a regenerative, contemporary ahupua’a where private rights have public responsibilities.
1 WATERWALK - Floating walkway connects people to water and nature, provides recreational space, actuates a floating stormwall - Wetland and floating vegetation improve water quality and create habitat - Bioswales with native vegetation capture and clean stormwater and connect users to Hawai’i’s ecocultural roots - Creates economic and so cial value for local businesses and community - Platform for community engagement in ecocultural and scientific education, stewardship, monitoring, and recreation
ALA WAI CANAL existing sidewalk current land value
floating sidewalk + bioswale
polluted lake
realign natural stream course
golf course stagnant Ala Wai
STEP 1
STEP 2
EXISTING CONTEXT
EMBED INFRASTRUCTURES
High flood risk and concentrated value.
Remove Ala Wai sidewalk and realign inside Ala Wai Canal. Remove lower part of Manoa-Palolo Stream and realign with its natural course through golf course.
new urban development and value
STEP 3 NEW ADAPTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE Wetland detention and filtration system in golf course, and urban stormwater storage/parking in new development.
LDE 522: Spring 2017 Advanced Landscape Architecture Studio II
limited flooding extent
STEP 4 STORM EVENT New infrastructure increases resilience to storm events.
Students: K. Antkoviak, O. Bracomontes, L. Chunpeng, L. Gibbons, N. Knoebel, C. Ruggiero, N. Weller, C. Willie Instructor: Paul Coseo