Vincent Xiao. Tutors: Joanna Theodore. Upon studying Uptown, plagued with a lack of open communal, walkable, and dwellable spaces, we identified 3 core values to improve the conditions of this...
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Won’t You Be My Neighbour?
Terry Cheng. Tutors: Michael MilojevicAt the heart of the Museum of the Walls and Housing tells the story of Spanish genealogy; visitors learn about the significance of multicultural identity and...
The Uptown Projection
Jose Benjamin. Tutors: Geoff Pitts. “How do we project/present ourselves to others, and how can that relate to architecture?” “How can the architecture itself exhibit unique characteristics of a...
The Space In Between
Davis Wu. Tutors: Julie Stout, Lynda SimmonsThe Metro Centre has been part of Auckland's landscape for centuries. The research regarding this project involves the evaluation of Auckland and the...
Interactive Living
Eman Yousef. Tutor: Joanna Theodore. Designing for elderly to live in the city with a higher density environment needs the introduction of a new typology of collective and interactive living,...
The Urban Incision
Victoria Gaitan. Tutors: Julie Stout, Lynda Simmons. The rapid urbanisation of Tamaki Makaurau’s urban landscape has seen a significant shift in ideals such as identity and place, where the...
Democratic Dialectic Database
Gujin Chung. Tutors: Chris Barton, Jon Rennie, Frances Cooper. In the age of digitization, the value of the library is called into question. When we believe a hard drive can replace an entire...
Down to Earth
Isabella Muirhead. Tutors: Jeremy Smith, Abby-Jane Taylor. Over the past centuries, the corner of Shortland and High street has borne witness to four iterations of building - each larger and less...
Te Wai Māreparepa – The Rippling Waters
Grayson Croucher. Tutor: Lama Tone. Pacific voyages, upon their journeys to Aotearoa, faced many different challenges. However, they were masters of the ocean, capable of traversing large bodies of...
Jafa Joy
Karl Poland. Tutors: Chris Barton, Jon Rennie, Frances Cooper. Not to be confused with the lollies kids threw at adults in the cinema, the rather impolite acronym JAFA, encapsulates the North-South...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...