North Smales Park: Masterplan

North Smales Park: Masterplan

Alexander Wierzbicki. Tutors: Lee Beattie, I-Ting Chuang, Lauren White.  North Smales Park will establish a Green Oriented & Transit Oriented Development for Auckland’s North Shore.  A large green spine will provide a unifying element at multiple scales:  Small...
The Mean House

The Mean House

Yiding Zhao. Tutor: Tane Pamatatau-Marques.  It is a concept in Ecology which describes that the natural systems are in a state of equilibrium. In artificial space, when people separate the space into small scale, the balance might be broken. When I first visited...
Being with the Stars

Being with the Stars

Kelly Ting. Tutor: Tane Pamatatau-Marques.  As an attempt to rediscover one’s sense of orientation lost within a spatial organisation of labyrinth complexity, the transformation of Claude Megson’s Horrocks House into an observatory seeks to look towards the stars. The...
Vertical Revolve: Inverting the Auckland Corridor

Vertical Revolve: Inverting the Auckland Corridor

Sybrand de Waal. Tutors: Jeremy Smith, Kim Huynh.  Walking down Queen Street, one is contained in a horizontal corridor of solid built fabric. This horizontality persists throughout the macro context and individual buildings even after their facades are stripped away...