Framework for the Future

Purpose: What is the Framework?

Significant challenges define our resolve to improve both the appearance and performance of our physical campus, not least rapid technological and behavioral change. In view of these changes, we have changed our approach to future development by prioritizing flexibility and adaptability, and by deploying new tools and algorithms that optimize our utilization of these expensive assets. 

Following a comprehensive inventory of all central campus facilities, project leaders from MKThink, the San Francisco-based architecture and process-design firm, produced research findings that illuminate the ways we actually use and forecast assignable space.

The Framework summarizes these findings and departs from to traditional long-range campus master plans through:

• Generating a quantitative and qualitative character of our campus
• Integrating customized digital tools, real-time sensing technologies, and more into campus assessment processes
• Providing the Mānoa leadership with evidence-driven criteria
• Functioning as living document, to be updated and reflect changes overtime

Framework Mission

The University is committed to growing its capacity as a producer of well-rounded, thoughtful citizens, as a leading research institution, and as a dependable provider of skilled and competent professionals into the regional workforce. 

To further the institution’s goals, the university is utilizing a framework, rooted in core cultural values and data, to create an environment that reflects the community and adapts to changing conditions

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