In 2021, the Kanaka Maoli lost one of their most vocal advocates, Haunani Kay-Trask of the Hawaiian sovereignity movement. Her lifelong commitment to indigenous resistance throughout the Pacific stands as a remarkable legacy in a long lineage of Hawaiian icons - for which sites of remembrance are few and far between. This is a proposal to establish a living memorial at the site of her last residence.

Two years after her passing, Hawaii was struck by the most deadly wildfire in modern US history. The project takes advantage of subsequent changes in building code which allows for the construction of peripheral walls in order to protect from the spread of wildfires. The new wall structure takes on a thickness and becomes a habitable boundary. With an uncanny resemblance to the native Hawaiian fort, its presence is clear and assertive, however without relegating the community to the typical role of cultural display for tourism.

The result is a new courtyard environment, a safe space within the hectic urbanism of Honolulu. Each part of the structure is open to be programmed by a rotating residency of local activists; It could be a food market, an artists colony, exhibition spaces, a space for meditating traditional gods and deities - or ideally, all of the above. This is not a space for tourism - but a new island within the city for a people who had their Islands taken away from them.