Ferraro Choi teamed with premier mainland architect HOK of San Francisco to design the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Daniel K. Inouye Regional Center (Laboratory and Office Complex) on historic Ford Island at Pearl Harbor. The 374,000 square-foot facility consolidates NOAA’s many Honolulu-area offices and...
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...
Spearheaded by the State of Hawaii’s Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA) and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Hawaii Gateway Energy Center visitor center is the first phase of a 6.5-acre campus for renewable and distributed energy research and development. The 3,600...
This remote science facility was the result of an intensive and collaborative design competition for Brazil’s Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station. The new 32,400 square-foot research/living/working habitat with separate operations and maintenance facilities of 11,300 square feet is located on the Keller Peninsula, King George Island,...
Situated on Coconut Island (Moku o Loe) in Kaneohe Bay, this one-of-a-kind 24,000 square-foot research facility is designed to be a world-class marine biology laboratory meeting the Environmental Protection Agency’s Labs 21 and the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED® Gold rating standards. The island’s surrounding...
In 2000, Ferraro Choi was retained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to plan and design a new 108,000 square-foot facility on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus. The facility was to consolidate NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center Honolulu Laboratory and the...
The USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station is a 32,320 square-foot laboratory and research facility for the Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry in Hilo, Hawaii. The complex is linked by covered walkways and landscaped courtyards and will include an administration building, multi-purpose building, research...
In 2006, Ferraro Choi participated in a competitive selection process for the design of a new 25-person Antarctic research station for India’s National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR). Ferraro Choi was invited to the table because of the firm’s deep experience in designing...
Completed in 2010, the new Amundsen-Scott station is strategically situated at the geographic South Pole, at an elevation of 2,800 meters. The station sits on a 2700-meter-thick glacier that moves with a velocity of 11 meters per year. It is one of the premier remote...