Kahaluu House is a proposed designed for a local architect and his musician wife who is a cellist. The building marries the two lives in an intersecting building, creating unique experiences and spaces where the two overlap. Designed in a similar fashion as Peter Eisenmann’s ‘El Forms,’ the residence protrudes from the landscape overlooking the Kaneohe Bay.

The program of the project calls for the formation of an architectural office merged with residence of a single couple in their late 50's. Solids and voids denote space and create barriers, which create a division between the personal and professional lives. A sound shaft bridges the architect's gallery and the cellist's studio, providing the marriage of architecture and music. A garden is cut into the hillside, creating a world within the site, of which the energy of the architecture and landscape break free.