{"id":77952,"date":"2018-04-22T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=77952"},"modified":"2020-08-07T14:29:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T00:29:02","slug":"full-sized-abizia-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/04\/22\/full-sized-abizia-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Full-sized albizia house a model of innovation and sustainability at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr>"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_82296\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/beIaULkGno8?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Full-sized albizia house a model of innovation and sustainability at 糖心Vlog官方\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/manoa-architecture-albizia-full-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Framework for the full-sized albizia house\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-78149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/manoa-architecture-albizia-full-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/manoa-architecture-albizia-full-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/manoa-architecture-albizia-full.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The wooden structure, which echoes the Waik\u012bk\u012b Shell or a Samoan fale, on the corner of University Avenue draws plenty of curious stares. A former doctoral student\u2019s dream is now a full-sized reality near the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arch.hawaii.edu\/\">School of Architecture<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a>. <strong>Joey Valenti<\/strong>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/07\/27\/house-built-out-of-albizia-wood-might-solve-multiple-sustainability-issues\/\">award winning idea to build an innovative temporary housing unit out of invasive albizia<\/a> has come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think it\u02bbs going to be a gamechanger for <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> in a lot of ways,&rdquo; says Valenti, now serving as project manager for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sustainability\/\"> <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Office of Sustainability<\/a>\u2019s Albizia Project.<\/p>\n<p>The prototype was constructed as a proof-of-concept of a single-family low-income shelter made from albizia, reconceptualizing the invasive species as a useful building material. It utilizes a design-build process that integrates state-of-the-art wood engineering technology and digital fabrication to pilot a <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>-based system of sustainable wood structures.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> president\u2019s green project implementation $10,000 award from Johnson Controls kick-started funding for what was Valenti\u02bbs doctor of architecture project, a scale model home. Since then, the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Office of Sustainability has raised about 10 times that amount to build the full-scale prototype, including funding from the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Housing Finance Development Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It\u2019s a really great example of the type of integrated systems thinking that sustainability demands,&rdquo; said <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> System Sustainability Coordinator <strong>Matthew K. Lynch<\/strong>. &ldquo;We\u2019re excited about all the support we\u02bbve gotten and all the excitement that the project has generated.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The current albizia house has proven that the invasive tree could be used as a local building material. Future questions are economic feasibility and possible economies of scale. The goal is also to expand the project beyond albizia to other locally abundant species.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We\u2019re very cognizant of making sure we don\u2019t create demand for an invasive species,&rdquo; Lynch said. &ldquo;We are thinking about this in a way that sort of mimics natural succession and evolution processes in nature. So if we can figure out how to create drivers for the removal, what then is the next step to replant, restore and repair our native ecosystems?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>House built out of Albizia wood might solve multiple sustainability issues<\/h2>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KmpOLyWIgm4?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Joey Valenti\u2019s award winning idea to build an innovative temporary housing unit out of invasive albizia has come to fruition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[240,915,1314,1038,239,73,9,56],"class_list":["post-77952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-architecture","tag-invasive-species","tag-manoa-sustainability","tag-office-of-sustainability","tag-school-of-architecture","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77952","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=77952"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124651,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77952\/revisions\/124651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}