Malama
Learning Center Competition
Kapolei HI
"Daedal
Boundaries" is Blostein/Overly's entry to the Malama Learning
Center Design Competition. The site for the project, the City of
Kapolei on the island of O'ahu, would play host to this 25,000 square
foot facility nurturing conservation and the arts by housing classrooms,
conference rooms, spaces for formal and informal teaching, meetings,
and workshops, a performance and lecture hall seating 300, a dance
studio, studios for artists and scientists in residence, and exhibition
spaces. For the Malama Learning Center, an ecosystem composed of
building and landscape was developed. The boundary between the two
conditions becomes daedal; intricate. The system used to embody
this organization and imprint the site became a field of “landswell
gardens” created from earth excavated from the site. These
gardens are further articulated through their method of fabrication
which weaves together program with outdoor space and become a map
for construction of the building as a community event.
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