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 revolves around the cyclic rhythm of Life, Death and Rebirth - expressed in...
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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...
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 redevelop this nucleus into the beating heart and vigorous backbone of...
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 outdoor environment. This proposal sits at the heart of a large proposed...
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...
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 online to allow a global audience to digitally attend the exhibition....
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 project questions: How might film-makers and the everyday spectator...
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 institutionalised roots towards a contemporary identity as a public space for active...
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 busy city residents with its eye-catching presences and allow people to...
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 Street and the forgotten voids which lie beneath the city’s facades and...