Karst ʻo Ke Alapiʻi Kānana Wai by Chi-Hao Chiang

Karst ʻo Ke Alapiʻi Kānana Wai by Chi-Hao Chiang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Keleawe in Hoʻolālā Lako Kūkulu a me ʻĀpana Kūkulu Hale Competition Category.

KeleaweʻĀpana Kūkulu· 2022

Karst ʻo Ke Alapiʻi Kānana Wai

by Chi-Hao Chiang

Client: Chi-Hao Chiang

A' Design Award Keleawe Winner in ʻĀpana Kūkulu Category

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The Design

About Karst ʻo Ke Alapiʻi Kānana Wai

ʻO Karst, kahi alapiʻi modular i hoʻolālā ʻia no Governors Island ma New York, ua like ia me ke ana hoʻonā no ka poʻe e ʻike a lohe i ka wai kahe, me kahi ʻōnaehana kānana wai e lawe mai i ka manaʻo o ke ʻano i loko o ka hale, e pili ana i ke kaiāulu kanaka a me ka wai. . Loaʻa i kēlā me kēia module he ʻeke no ka waiho ʻana i kahi ʻeke o nā pūpū oyster i ʻoki ʻia. Hiki i nā pūpū i haku ʻia me ka calcium carbonate ke hana me ka ua ʻakika e kōkua i ka hoʻokaʻawale ʻana i ka moana ʻakika ma ka lawe ʻana i carbon dioxide. ʻO ka hopena, he ʻōnaehana kānana ia e hiki ke hoʻopuehu i ka palena ma waena o ke kanaka a me ke ʻano ma ka Mokupuni ʻo Governors.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Keleawe

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Karst ʻo Ke Alapiʻi Kānana Wai i ka A' Design Award Keleawe, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kūʻokoʻa i ʻike ʻia ma o ka hana noʻeau, ka akamai a me ka makakoho. He mau hana mākaukau a hana noʻeau kupaianaha nā lanakila Keleawe e hōʻoia ana i ka ʻike nui, ka noʻonoʻo a me ka maʻalea o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Karst ʻo Ke Alapiʻi Kānana Wai he mea i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia, he ʻoihana a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Keleawe e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana, a maikaʻi no kona nānā ʻana i nā kikoʻī. Hoʻokō maikaʻi ka hoʻolālā Karst ʻo Ke Alapiʻi Kānana Wai i nā pono, hoʻopā i ka makemake, hoʻohiwahiwa i nā manaʻo a huki i ka makemake e ʻike.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Karst, a modular staircase designed for Governors Island in New York, is like a solutional cave for people to see and hear the flowing water, with a water-filtering system that brings the sensation of nature into the house, connecting the community of humans and water. Each module has a pocket for placing a bag of crushed oyster shells, and the shells composed of calcium carbonate can react with acid rain to reduce ocean acidification by absorbing carbon dioxide.
Dimensions & Packaging: 2032 mm x 5740.4 mm x 5130.8 mm
Tags: Staircase, Concrete, Water Filtration, Governors Island, Sustainable
Production Technology: It will be made out of concrete, and the bags with crushed oyster shells inside as the filtering material.
Design Challenge: Finding a way to combine two very different forms to be consistent and functional is the design challenge.
Research: Question the relationship between industrial standardized building material and organic material in the present time when concrete jungles are sprawling on the land. Our goal is to allow nature to appear and break the traditional boundary that we humans created, separating ourselves from nature. After the explorations of physical material combinations, we took styrofoam and pine cone models to deconstruct and reconstruct. After simplifying, two different forms combined in a consistent way.
Inspiration: The goal is to allow nature to appear and break the traditional boundary that we humans created, separating ourselves from nature. After many physical explorations, the proposal was narrowed down to create an interactive community for humans and water. Also, the reason for naming the staircase Karst is from the Karst terrain, which is famous for solutional caves, with its cave form and the process that acid rain can act with the crushed oyster shell.
Project Duration: The project started in February 2020 in New York and finished in May 2020 in New York, and was exhibited on Governors Island in New York in October 2020.
Operation Flow: First, the rainwater drips from the pockets with bags of crushed oyster shells. After the filtration, it trickles down on the cliff and flows through the troughs. Potentially, this staircase can be not only applied indoors but also separated into modular sliced units then installed along the island. It is a filter system that can blur the boundary between humans and nature on Governors Island. In the end, the filtered water can return to the harbor and benefit the island.
Team Members: Chi-Hao Chiang
Zhixian Song
Image Credits: Image #1: Industrial Designer Chi-Hao Chiang, Front View of Karst, 2020.
Image #2: Industrial Designer Chi-Hao Chiang, Side View of Karst, 2020.
Image #3: Industrial Designer Chi-Hao Chiang, Filtration Bags of Karst, 2020.
Image #4: Industrial Designer Chi-Hao Chiang, Handrail of Karst, 2020.
Image #5: Industrial Designer Chi-Hao Chiang, Steps of Karst, 2020.
Video Credits: Architect Zhixian Song, Application of Karst, 2020.