July 7th Public Interest Design Workshop

This Friday July 7th, 2017 The Public Interest Design Workshop will be held at the East West Center. Helping design professionals learn skills and methods to proactively engage "Public Interest Design," this new program encourages community partners to learn skills and methods for engaging design professionals.

The curriculum is structured around the Social Economic Environmental Design metrics, which provide a guide for practice, documentation, and showcasing of public interest design projects.

Speakers in the Workshop include:

Susie Chun Oakland, Program Coordinator for the Lanakila Multi-Purpose Senior Center

Jeffrey Hou, Ph.D, Professor and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle

Harrison Rue, the Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Administrator of the City & County of Honolulu, Department of Planning and Permitting.

Dean Sakamoto FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP, Practicing architect and director of the SHADE Institute

Mary Pat Waterhouse, Community volunteer

Susan Thering, Program Manager at Design Corps.

Summer Fellows and Dean Sakamoto reviewing drawings of Waipoua access road 

On July 6th, SHADE summer fellows will lead a Waipahu & Chinatown tour that familiarizes workshop participants with the two neighborhoods SHADE has been working with.

Hawaii Public Radio Interview

On Monday June 26th, 2017, Dean Sakamoto and Summer Fellow Zach Small were interviewed by Noe Tanigawa of Hawaii Public Radio (HPR) to speak about the Public Interest Design (PID) Workshop and how SHADE Institute has been working to help Waipahu and Chinatown communities develop transit oriented design projects following Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) guidelines.

The interview will air on Monday July 3rd 2017 at 7:40 am and 4:30 pm on HPR1. To access archived airings online, visit HPR's website http://hawaiipublicradio.org/people/noe-tanigawa or click HPR and recent stories at www.noetanigawa.com

SHADE 2017 Summer Fellow Zach Small being Interviewed

June 26th, 2017

Noe Tanigawa of HPR

June 26th, 2017

Parklet Success!

Thank you all for coming to the Chinatown DiscoverArt Parklet installation presented by SHADE Institute!  We all here at SHADE had a great time working with everyone this summer, and we are so incredibly grateful to have been invited to take part of this event.

Click here for the full interview and article from KITV4 news about Saturday's event.

Parklet Progress

The SHADE interns are gearing up for Saturday! Check out some of the in-progess images of the parklet!  And don't forget to come by between 11am-4pm Saturday!

HURRIPLAN July 21 - July 22

Thank you to Dennis Hwang and Dean Sakamoto leading the July 21-22 HURRIPLAN Resilient Building Design for Coastal Communities course. 

HURRIPLAN is a two-day performance-level course that provides professionals with the training necessary to integrate resilient community planning and building design strategies with civic commercial projects located in hurricane-prone areas.  In addition to discussing existing regulations, this course featured best practices that may increase community shelter capacity while addressing design concerns such as sustainability, accessibility, architectural aesthetics, and regional culture.

SHADE interns, architects, civil engineers, structural engineers, planners, and others participated in this course, which not only brought variety to the discussion, but also different opinions and ideas as well.  

Special thanks to the Lyon Associates, NDPTC and Waipahu High School.