heh-OH-nuh
G70
Client: University of Hawaii Community Colleges
Built in 1970, Heona was designed as a single story cmu bunker that included student locker rooms, toilets/showers, offices and storage. Acquired in the early aughts, the Art Department has been utilizing it in its original condition, including the placement of kilns in the existing shower room. This modernization aspires to transcend its intended use and become a destination for UHMC’s West Campus by reshaping the site around it for student events and community functions. Continuing as the primary home for Drawing/Painting and Ceramics, a detached pavilion is proposed and will be constructed for the relocation of the gas/electric kilns and the main electrical panels. This move allows for the introduction of a Fine Arts Gallery, a photography darkroom, catering counters and all gender toilets into the main building. Light filled an