The Kekelaokalani Building at Kamehameha Elementary School’s Kapālama Campus has been renovated into a state-of-the-art Learning Center by Ferraro Choi. The second floor features offices, conference rooms, and staff support spaces, while the third floor houses the heart of the Learning Center with flexible teaching...
President Theodore Roosevelt High School (RHS) was founded in 1930. Its existing gym has roots to the earliest years of the RHS campus as an openair compound with grass play courts for girls. Later in the 60s, it was enclosed to act as a formal...
Ferraro Choi and The Miller Hull Partnership have joined forces to collaborate on an innovative 212,000 SF middle school in East Kapolei for the State’s Department of Education. Originally conceived through the community-based design process and DOE objectives, this new campus will provide a superior...
The Hawaii Department of Education selected Ferraro Choi to design a Girls Athletic Locker Room for Kalani High School. The project features a Locker Room, an Athletics Trainers’ Facility, a Judo and Wrestling Room, additional field storage for the Track and Field area and a...
In 2016, Ferraro Choi was retained by Kamehameha Schools to assist with the renovation of the Nahienaena, Kanekapolei, Keolaokalani and Kuiheilani buildings which comprise the 25,000 SF upper portion of its Elementary School at the Kapalama Campus. The buildings were originally designed by Merrill Simms...
The new Kohala High School STEM/Science facility is the first public school STEM/Science project designed to achieve Hawaii-Collaborative High-Performance Schools (HI-CHPS) Verified certification. Schools that meet HI-CHPS criteria are defined as high-performance learning environments that are healthy, comfortable, conserve energy, water and resources, and which...
The UH Culinary Institute of the Pacific is envisioned as a 44,000 square-foot culinary educational facility on the northern slope of the Diamond Head State Monument at the site of the former Fort Ruger Cannon Club. The design concept, developed in a community-based process led...
The State of Hawaii Department of Education (DOE) awarded the design of the Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School Science and Technology Center to Ferraro Choi in 2011. Founded in 1937, Stevenson Middle School was named after the Scottish novelist and travel writer who had spent considerable...
The West Hawaii Explorations Academy is Hawaii’s first Charter Middle and High School. The school is a Project Based Learning (PBL) institution using innovative, hands-on educational methods. They previously were located on a 1.5-acre parcel in the Hawaii Ocean Science and Technology (HOST) Park at...
Completed in January 2012, the new 19,700 square foot cafeteria for Lahainaluna High School replaces an existing outdated cafeteria that was constructed in 1963. The program called for a modern and highly functional full-service kitchen with dining and assembly capacities for 650 and 1,000 students, respectively....