FUTURE OF HAWAIʻI’S HOUSING WINS ACSA’S 2022 COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE AWARD

The Future of Hawai'i's Housingedu/work/future-of-hawaiis-housing research project led by principal investigators Karla Sierralta and Brian Strawn was nationally recognized with the 2022 Collaborative Practice Award at the ACSA's annual Architectural Education Awards.

"Established in 1997 by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, this award honors best practices in university-based and community engaged programs. This award was proposed by Thomas Dutton and Anthony Schuman as a means 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."

This exploratory bottom-up research collaboration began in 2019 with interviewing thirty families on five islands. In 2020 the team revisited their findings through the lens of the ongoing pandemic. The Future of Hawai'i's Housing project resulted in over sixteen individual design and research efforts, including a toolkit for designing Holistic Housing in Hawai'i.