![]() The tower floor plate and wallumn geometry are repeated every 12 floors, with window walls changing as they follow the repeating pattern. ![]() Koula’s wallumns, a Hawaii first, have 22 different forms. “The unique, curved exterior wallumns play with light and shadow, suggesting the natural movement of red sugar cane that once grew in the area,” Naira says. Nature also shapes Koula’s façade, which uses “wallumns”-exterior walls that act as columns. Koula pays homage to nature in its name (“red sugar cane” in Hawaiian). The 400-foot tower is the first Ward Village project by Hawaiian Dredging and architect Studio Gang. Koula, the sixth residential tower in Ward Village’s master plan, “was one of the more complex and gratifying projects for Hawaiian Dredging,” says Merrill Naira, senior project manager. ![]() Start: October 2019 | Wrap: September 2022 (first closings)
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