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Halewai'olu Senior Residences - Honolulu, HI
Affordable senior housing
This new 17 story affordable senior housing tower adjacent to Honolulu’s Chinatown fulfills the City’s RFP goal of providing needed affordable housing for our senior population.
To create a vibrant community for seniors the project includes a one-story community center (pictured below) for both community and tenant events. Atop the parking podium is an open recreation deck featuring a walking path, exercise equipment, long-term bike storage, a dog park and common area laundry facility.
The facade window and EIFS wall patterning recalls the structure of bamboo where the jogs in the window system simulate the knots found in bamboo segments.
Project Details:
Client: Michael’s Development
Construction Budget: ~$48 million
Square Footage: 190,000 sq ft
Program: 156 affordable senior living one and two bedroom apartments, community center, tenant activity rooms, two floors of parking, podium top recreation deck with dog park and common laundry
Completion Date: Anticipated 2023
Individual units are efficient with a kitchen/ dining area as you enter with a living room beyond. Living rooms and bedrooms have operable windows for passive ventilation as well as individual a/c units in the living rooms.
Design, Documentation, & Permitting by Jason DeMarco as Project Architect while with WRNS.