Karl Poland, Robbie Anderson, Shelley Jiao Tutors: Matt LigginsIn New Zealand, we are fixated on owning a detached family home on a quarter-acre section. This is what New Zealanders have dubbed the...
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Union Street Community Centre & Performance Hall
Jasper Newcombe Tutors: Gina HochsteinAcknowledging existing some material, social, and historic conditions, this proposed extension to ‘The Temple of Higher Thought’ at 1 union street takes an...
Life, Death and Rebirth : The Arrival, The Liminal, and The Spirit
Janae Van Panahon. Tutor: Lama Tone. This project aims to provide a space that embodies indigenous Polynesian identities to essentially establish a place to stand for the people. The narrative...
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...
Tinana O Manukau | An Architectural ‘Body of Manukau’
Irene Mu, Jana Guillermo. Tutor: Julie Stout. Our multi-functional complex is a diverse body that aims to re-construct the present frame of retail situated at the nucleus of Manukau. It will aim to...
A Building for Sundays
William Martel. Tutors: Chris Barton, Pip Cheshire. A 'Building for Sundays’ articulates the belief that a successful community is built upon relationships between people, activities, and the...
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...
Ars Electronica Garden Aotearoa
Zoe Ooi, Luke Schwalger, Helen Yue, Angela Li. Tutors: Uwe Rieger, Yan Li. This scheme can be understood as a two-part group project. Due to COVID-19, the Ars Electronica Festival 2020 was held...
Creator’s Park
Angela Lai. Tutors: Aaron Paterson, Michael McCabe. Creator’s Park performs as a community park and an accessible film production site for local creatives such as students, web film-makers. This...
Social Lab
Cindy Huang. Tutors: Chris Barton, Jon Rennie. Imagining the City as a Library Moving beyond the analogy of a ‘storehouse of knowledge’, the 21st century library has evolved from its...
Window Stopping
Sunjoo Lee. Tutor: Jeremy Smith. Proposing a new way of consuming high-end goods, disguised as a spectacle created by an architectural structure called “Window Stopping”. In attempt to slow down...
The Forgotten Void : A Reversal of the Auckland Urban Hierarchy
Matthew Connolly. Tutors: Jeremy Smith, Kim Hyunh. Through the iterative exploration of “Borderless Cities” this project focusses on the abrupt boundary created between the street frontage on High...
Two Mountains
Tane Pamatatau-Marques. Tutor: Gina Hochstein. This project addresses the overwhelming tension between two mountains which stand in opposition in central Tāmaki Makaurau: Maungawhau Mt. Eden and Mt....