{"id":91227,"date":"2019-02-25T08:38:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T18:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=91227"},"modified":"2019-02-25T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T01:00:23","slug":"planning-community-design-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/02\/25\/planning-community-design-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning on making a difference"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Rendering of UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center Annex project, courtesy of Brian Strawn, senior researcher at the UH<\/abbr> Community Design Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mapping out transit-oriented development (TOD<\/abbr>) for the future Waipahu rail station. Looking into the transformation of an empty annex building at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Cancer Center<\/a>, possibly into a center for clinical trials. And turning the Lake Wilson Freshwater Park in Wahiawā into an ecological, social, cultural and historic gem.<\/p>\n

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Panel discussion at “Proof of Concept: Public-Private Partnerships at Work” at the state Capitol Auditorium.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These are just three projects that multiple UH<\/abbr><\/a> units, led by the Community Design Center<\/a> (UHCDC<\/abbr>) in the School of Architecture<\/a> at UH<\/abbr> Mānoa<\/a>, are working on with state agencies to enhance research, planning and design services throughout the state. “Proof of Concept: Public-Private Partnerships at Work” featured presentations and a panel discussion on February 19 at the state Capitol Auditorium.<\/p>\n

“We are happy to represent the university’s capacity to be a multi-disciplinary problem-solving resource, and are committed to make a difference through design,” said Cathi Ho Schar<\/strong>, UHCDC<\/abbr> director. “This event focused on sharing the breadth and depth of how our faculty and students, along with agency partners, are addressing the critical problems facing our state and built environments.”<\/p>\n

TOD<\/abbr> development<\/strong><\/p>\n

UHCDC<\/abbr> and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning<\/a> (DURP<\/abbr>) in the College of Social Sciences<\/a> are working on a framework to develop state parcels surrounding the Waipahu Pouhala rail station. DURP<\/abbr> Assistant Professor Suwan Shen<\/strong> and Architecture Associate Professor Hyoung-June Park<\/strong> are focusing on transportation and infrastructure studies and a digital optimization model for the area.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center<\/strong><\/p>\n

The future buildout of an empty annex building at the UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center could be transformed into a Phase I clinical trials center and community asset, according to Brian Strawn<\/strong>, UHCDC<\/abbr> senior researcher. In addition to analysis and design, Strawn’s team built a full-scale prototype of the clinical trials suite.<\/p>\n

Lake Wilson improvements<\/strong><\/p>\n

Architecture Associate Professor Judith Stilgenbauer<\/strong> presented her strategies to protect and enhance the Lake Wilson Freshwater Park, which would also provide public open space amenities for the Central Oʻahu<\/span> community. She received the 2018 Poʻokela<\/span> Award<\/a> from the American Society of Landscape Architects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UH<\/abbr> Community Design Center is taking the lead on addressing critical problems facing the state’s built environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[301,1363,239,169,9,365],"class_list":["post-91227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-manoa-research","tag-school-of-architecture","tag-uh-cancer-center","tag-uh-manoa","tag-urban-and-regional-planning","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91227"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91347,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91227\/revisions\/91347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}