Malama Learning Centre

Malama Learning Centre is a non-profit organization that brings art, science, conservation, and culture together to promote sustainable living in Hawaii. The design uses the existing contours of the land to provide a open central auditorium space, surround by the university research and teaching facilities. Recalling the traditional land management and ancestral religious buildings the project has been developed with a vernacular concept: “Be hard with the land but soft with the landscape”. The buildings are intended to be constructed with the Lava stone with charred timber cladding and bees wax as per the traditional boat building.