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Lahaina Homes
Maui County, HI, United States
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Lahaina Homes
Maui County, HI, United States
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2025
BUDGET
$100M +
On August 8, 2023, Lahaina, Maui experienced a devastating wildfire that claimed the lives of 102 people and left over 7,000 people homeless. The fire resulted from the confluence of climate change, environmentally insensitive development, poor stewardship of resources, and a lack of preparedness. This tragedy called for a considered and generous response that could serve as an example in responding to future disasters. Given the enormity of the loss, the limited labor force and material availability on-island called for an offsite construction solution. In March of 2024, FEMA issued an RFP and by July, Jordan and his team were awarded the contract.
The Lahaina Home was selected for the majority of housing for the Kilohana site. Purposeful in its dedication to well-being and to providing a dignified response to the trauma and loss of survivors, the Lahaina Home is a departure from the trailers that have been deployed post-disaster over the last several decades. Healing calls for a home, not a trailer, and the grouped site offered an opportunity to rebuild community. Each home has a porch, creating an interstitial zone between public and private life. The porches provide a connection to the landscape, a place for civic engagement, to be seen, to visit, or to greet neighbors. Shelter is elevated to home and survivors retake their places in the community.
FEMA set a difficult delivery schedule of delivery of houses commencing less than 4 months after award, leaving Jordan and his team about two months of construction time, following an expedited approval process with Maui County, and preceding a 2.5 week journey to the West Coast and across the Pacific. Jordan and his team delivered 109 houses on time, turning each over to FEMA set, finished and fully furnished a week after delivery.
Outcome and Impact: The Lahaina Homes are based on Liv-Connected’s Conexus model, which provides for a multitude of envelope cladding systems allowing them to reference local architecture and cultural history. For Kilohana, Jordan and his team used board & batten with brightly colored facades that echo the storefronts of Front Street, which was lost to the fires.
Families began moving in days before Thanksgiving following a beautiful blessing ceremony with a local kahuna pule and Hawaii Governor Josh Green. The FEMA team shared that this was one of their most successful projects and the “future” or disaster response, beginning conversations about replicating it in the US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Southern California.
Liv-Connected’s Conexus Homes are factory-built, which increases quality and significantly reduces cost and waste in comparison to conventional construction and are inherently suited to disaster response but also provide a promising solution to the housing crisis prevalent on Maui and in the United States as they could bring home ownership within reach for the nearly 70 percent of the population unable to afford a home.
The Lahaina Home was selected for the majority of housing for the Kilohana site. Purposeful in its dedication to well-being and to providing a dignified response to the trauma and loss of survivors, the Lahaina Home is a departure from the trailers that have been deployed post-disaster over the last several decades. Healing calls for a home, not a trailer, and the grouped site offered an opportunity to rebuild community. Each home has a porch, creating an interstitial zone between public and private life. The porches provide a connection to the landscape, a place for civic engagement, to be seen, to visit, or to greet neighbors. Shelter is elevated to home and survivors retake their places in the community.
FEMA set a difficult delivery schedule of delivery of houses commencing less than 4 months after award, leaving Jordan and his team about two months of construction time, following an expedited approval process with Maui County, and preceding a 2.5 week journey to the West Coast and across the Pacific. Jordan and his team delivered 109 houses on time, turning each over to FEMA set, finished and fully furnished a week after delivery.
Outcome and Impact: The Lahaina Homes are based on Liv-Connected’s Conexus model, which provides for a multitude of envelope cladding systems allowing them to reference local architecture and cultural history. For Kilohana, Jordan and his team used board & batten with brightly colored facades that echo the storefronts of Front Street, which was lost to the fires.
Families began moving in days before Thanksgiving following a beautiful blessing ceremony with a local kahuna pule and Hawaii Governor Josh Green. The FEMA team shared that this was one of their most successful projects and the “future” or disaster response, beginning conversations about replicating it in the US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Southern California.
Liv-Connected’s Conexus Homes are factory-built, which increases quality and significantly reduces cost and waste in comparison to conventional construction and are inherently suited to disaster response but also provide a promising solution to the housing crisis prevalent on Maui and in the United States as they could bring home ownership within reach for the nearly 70 percent of the population unable to afford a home.
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