Sand Island

Honolulu, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi


Sand Island is the major gateway into the State of Hawaiʻi. The 503 acre
island is the location of Hawaiis main harbor, and Honoluluʻs primary
wastewater treatment center. While the island is a major gateway,
human activity is relatively low. Most of the area dedicated towards
infrastructure over inhabitants.

Sand Islandʻs form is derived from a century of earthworks in
creating key city infrastructures (ie. Honolulu International
Airport, Honolulu Harbor). Many years of service as an industrial
park introduced many contaminants into the soil. The primary
goal for near-term initiatives is to redistribute on-site infrastructures and remediate existing pollutants

Redistribution of consolidated resources that are necessary for human habitation such as wastewater, food, travel, etc, would create a shock-adaptive
infrastructure. Portions of the new framework at Sand Island could be replicated at different potential sites across the archipelago.

A downloadable file of the full presentation is located here.
Spring 2020 - ARCH 763
Urban Design Studio

Instructor: Judith Stilgenbauer




A downloadable file of the full presentation is located here.

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