Lava 4, Kurokawa / Fishman House
Big Island, Hawaii

The house, located in a "kipuka", (a Hawaiian word for a strip of old growth vegetation left undisturbed as the lava flowed around it) holds several trees predating the lava flow including 2 magnificent Monkeypod trees.

The house grows out of the Kipuka cantilevering back over the lava flow much like the canopy of the Monkeypod trees.

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Dwell November 2008