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...
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Transnational Alumni Portal
Gavin Drinn. Tutor: Graeme Burgess, Gina Hochstein. Albert Park, located on land adjacent to the University of Auckland’s main campus, has an almost forgotten secret, the hidden Air-Raid tunnels from World War 2 and the North Facing Gatekeepers Lodge. The Lt. Richard...
Unfold the Folds
Jessica Long. Tutors: Jeremy Smith, Chris Barton. Located on Princes Street in Auckland CBD, the final design functions as a communal library. The strategy revolves around change as folding modules form around the existing tree on site as a focal point. Each module...
The Urban Room – Durban
Gavin Drinn. Tutor: Julie Stout. Durban is the largest city in the province of Kwa-Zulu Natal, the “Zulu Kingdom”. It forms the anchor of the eThekwini municipality which has envisioned a land use intensity plan. The plan ensures a city for all by promoting...
Pūao
Shay Klaassen. Tutor: Steve Hutana. Puao is a fourteen-storey skyscraper that embodies the spirit of the Taniwha, protecting the people and the mana in which it surrounds. Bridging the gap between the physical and spiritual world, as the building symbolises the...
Rebirth of the Natural World : Performative Void and Darkness
Janae Van Panahon. Tutor: Dorita Hannah. With increasing urbanisation of Tamaki Makaurau, layers of the built fabric have led to the suffocation of the natural world. This is seen in the expansion of a colonial city that continues to disregard the cultural...
Te Hiku Waihorotiu
Tane Pamatatau-Marques. Tutors: Julie Stout, Lynda Simmons, Savannah Brown. This project seeks to restore Te Waihorotiu to its rightful place at the centre of public life in Tāmaki Makaurau. Through nurturing the physical presence of the waterway, the project enables...
Post-Mortem: The Pathologic Theatre for a Dis-eased Campus
Shan Yu. Tutor: Dorita Hannah. The recurrent excision of creative spaces in Auckland demonstrates a compulsive disorder that the University of Auckland is not free from. After the Maidment Theatre demolition promises of future venues dwindle with each emerging...
Te Angaanga Tahataha (The Shell Bank)
Matthew Connolly. Tutor: Jimmi O'Toole. Te Angaanga Tahataha - The Shell Bank : A migratory journey though a unique ecological experience at the Pukorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre Te Angaanga Tahataha, a regenerative intervention creating a rich insight into the...
Under the Tahuhu: A Language in Reflection of Mātauranga Māori
Hans Hong. Tutors: Tracy Ogden-Cork, Steve Hutana. Ko taku reo taku ohooho, ko taku reo taku mapihi mauria [My language is my awakening, my language is the window to my soul] Through what is defined, the relationships present, and what is assumed, language crafts a...