{"id":48194,"date":"2016-07-27T09:11:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T19:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=48194"},"modified":"2020-08-07T15:15:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T01:15:16","slug":"house-built-out-of-albizia-wood-might-solve-multiple-sustainability-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/07\/27\/house-built-out-of-albizia-wood-might-solve-multiple-sustainability-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"House built out of Albizia wood might solve multiple sustainability issues"},"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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KmpOLyWIgm4?showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48195\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/manoa-valenti-j.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/manoa-valenti-j.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/manoa-valenti-j-208x260.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joey Valenti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arch.hawaii.edu\/\">School of Architecture<\/a> graduate <strong>Joey Valenti<\/strong> aims to solve several problems at once with his sustainable award-winning Doctor of Architecture project.<\/p>\n<p>Entitled &ldquo;Rescaling Urbanism,&rdquo; the winner of a $10,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/arch.hawaii.edu\/content\/joseph-valenti-wins-2016-green-project-implementation-award\"><abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> President&#8217;s Green Project Implementation Award<\/a> aims to create a self described alternative framework for construction and housing, as demonstrated through his first scale model home.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I guess my idea was coalescing ideas of more contemporary ways of designing, of builiding, and ultimately fabricating structures right here locally in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>,&rdquo; says Valenti.<\/p>\n<p>The project addresses sustainability in multiple ways, including the proposed use of invasive Albizia wood to build the structures.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think there&#8217;s an edge with this idea in the fact that the invasive Albizia is a statewide issue or crisis that we&#8217;re dealing with,&rdquo; says Valenti. &ldquo;The state is having to put forward a lot of money to remove this material, but you don&#8217;t really see it going anywhere.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Valenti&#8217;s project is also sustainable because of its lower cost design, including non-traditional windows and doorways, and its proposed use as easy-to- build transitional housing to address <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8217;s housing crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&rdquo;It questions all the issues we are facing with environmental change and social inequality and how we&#8217;re having this huge housing crisis that&#8217;s not going anywhere but up,&rdquo; Valenti says.<\/p>\n<p>He hopes to have a full-scale model built by the end of the year to truly prove his concept.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa graduate student Joey Valenti&#8217;s award-winning project repurposes an invasive species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":48205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[240,239,73,9,56],"class_list":["post-48194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-architecture","tag-school-of-architecture","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/manoa-valenti-f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48194","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=48194"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124712,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48194\/revisions\/124712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}