Lavaflow 5 - Bennett/Yeo House
Big Island, HawaiiA new house located on 32 acres of gently sloping Hamakua coastline, construction underway.
We decided to build the structural frame off site due to the remoteness of the building site and the desire to have the frame galvanized, (no galvanizing plants on Hawaii). I wasn't interested in using typical pre fabricated steel construction because the connection details are clumsy and the proportions are too heavy. Instead, we worked with a structural engineer to design clean and more refined connections.
This image shows a practice assembly of the frame in the fabricator's yard in Northern California. After this, the frame was dismantled, galvanized, loaded into a container and shipped to Hawaii. Two people and a crane operator installed the entire 4000 sq. ft. frame in 3 days, (after 2 days of layout and installing the anchor bolts for the columns in the concrete).
