2100 Kalakaua Avenue
Waikiki, Hawaii

 

Developer:  Honu Group, Inc.
Completion Date:  November, 2002
Size:  110,000 square feet

Description:  The project consists of nine three-story retail townhouses, each featuring a unique storefront curtainwall and roof design.  The resulting design meets the challenging task of reflecting each tenant's identity within the parameters of Hawaiian architectural and landscape style.  This is accomplished with an integrated single steel-framed structure tailored to the intricate coordination requirements of each townhouse design.  Furthermore, the foundation and structural steel was designed on a fast-track schedule and finished three months in advance of the final architectural, civil, mechanical, and electrical drawings.  This was done to permit a quicker start-up and shorter overall duration of construction.  Martin & Chock monitored structural steel quantity for budgeting purposes during design, and its tonnage estimate was within 5% of the steel subcontractor's bid.

 


Lanikea at Waikiki Condominium

 The tower, consisting of 25 levels of four residential units per floor, is stacked over 5 levels of parking. To maximize total floor area within a 300-ft. height limit, the A&B condominium utilizes a 9'-1/2" typical residential unit floor-to-floor height and 8'-6" ceiling height.   

Particular types of high-rise structural systems will be more efficient within certain ranges of height/width ratio, and for this height and building plan dimension an interacting system was advantaged. The system is an exterior concrete wall-frame interacting with a concrete core.  A three-sided exterior wall-frame encompasses the full lateral dimensions of the tower along both axes, delivering high efficiency of lateral strength and stiffness.  The fourth side of the exterior enclosure is nonstructural to allow flying form staging of the tower.

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