Photo Credit: Hiep Nguyen (Slick Pixels Hawaii)
Photo Credit: Hiep Nguyen (Slick Pixels Hawaii)
Background RISE, or Residences for Innovative Student Entrepreneurs, is a brand- new integrated, live, learn, work, innovation center at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa campus. RISE is a unique facility with dormitory-style housing for 374 students, from freshmen to graduate students. The RISE development offers housing, workspace, and resources for students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation. The goal is to create a collaborative environment that would encourage students to develop their ideas and work on entrepreneurial projects. The building includes co-working spaces, meeting rooms, and other amenities to support these efforts. RISE is managed by B.HOM Student Living as UH’s first externally managed student housing complex. It was developed as a public-private partnership between the University of Hawaii, the University of Hawaii Foundation and developer Hunt Companies.
Impact RISE enhances the educational experience of UH students by providing a space for entrepreneurial activities, innovation, and collaboration. This center provides local students with greater opportunities to sharpen their innovation skills which will have a lasting positive impact on the rest of the university and local business industry. This development also repurposed and gave new life to a historic, 100-year-old building that was in a state of disarray. Instead of demolishing it and building new, repurposing the original structure provided environmental benefits to the local community including less pollution and disturbance of the site. Technical Aspects • Development of two separate new structures and renovation of the historic, 100-year-old Charles Atherton House • Intricate system of seismic expansion joints were designed to connect the three structures • New structures designed with post-tensioned concrete podiums and cold-formed steel framing (CFS) above
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