Design 5

Matthew Pritchard. Tutors: Dorita Hannah. Tāmaki Makaurau’s Strand Station, sited on land that was once a bay for waka to anchor in and a trading route for Māori, has gradually transitioned into...

Echo of the Stone Valley

Chenan Zhang. Tutors: Alessandro Premier. “Echo of the Stone Valley” is a captivating fusion of contemporary design and historical significance. Situated on the historic grounds of the "Three King...

Of Other Spaces: The Undocumented Anomalies of Hashima

Kelly Ting. Tutors: Holly Xie. As a ruin, architecture is more, not less. Hashima Island, once a thriving metropolis with the world's highest population density, is now of decaying buildings and...

Awa and Maunga: Dialogue between Land and Water

Ties Van Roij. Tutors: Lama Tone. Kia Ora, Talofa Lava, I'm Ties This is my project called Awa and Maunga: Dialogue between Land and Water. My approach revolves around three fundamental principles...

Permeable Sanctity: Transforming a Convent into an Architectural Epicentre

Shnaia Xu. Tutors: Robin Byron. Deep within the labyrinthine tapestry of Seville's porous cities lies the idea of community, interconnectedness and interdependence. In this intricate urban canvas,...

Ointment

Christine Tang. Tutors: Ruby Whitaker, Ross Jenner.We are conditioned to strive for perfection, we’re taught to always aim towards excellence, to achieve a life that could be considered paradise....

Paterinya Diswat. Tutor: Dorita Hannah. Kokoru: The Cove as Haven and Performing Ground A place where landscape narrates stories A space where theatre is found within nature The conventional theatre...

The Outsiders: The Journey of Lost and Found

Ferrari Huang. Tutor: Dorita Hannah. Both the theatre and urban space are places of representation, assemblage, and exchange between actors and spectators, between the drama and the stage set....

Noguchi’s Mu + Ma

Emille Tatton.Tutor: Matt Liggins.An interpretation of Isamu Noguchi’s art meditation process, carving across the bounds of structure, rejecting rigid uniformity, and embracing the organic....

Hay Folly

Terry Cheng, Wooyoung Jang, Tim Li. Tutor: Andrew Barrie. The Hay Folly is made of hay bales - the stuff made of paddocks. Much like where it will stand, it is designed to disappear after two years....

Educational Residency

Connor Rice. Tutor: Matt Liggins. The project Educational Residency is designed as a faculty building situated over the Wellesley Street Bridge, designated for both Fine Arts and Architecture...

Sequential Interventions

Yoo Jin Kim. Tutors: Zali McMahon, Tane Pamatatau-Marques. Meola Reef’s identity is made of multiple layers of history and ecology that have formed and amalgamated with each other over time. The...

Hybrid Flats

Xingyue (Rachel) Lin. Tutors: Uwe Rieger, Luke Schwalger. “Hybrid Flats” is an experimental project that explores the “2019 Venn Room” concept with LIDAR scanning and Mozilla Hubs. The "Hybrid...

Project Ultra-Plant

Yu (Grace) Shen. Tutor: Bianca Kofoed. Project Ultra-Plant, saturated in a post nuclear war environment, seeks to find a new way of living for the survivors through the incorporation of mycelium...

Gallery for the Visually Impaired

Nicholas Lanigan. Tutor: Juliana Wilson. The project stems from a photographic and documentation perspective. The use of a camera Obscura created the recurring trend. Capturing the natural...

HybridArtifact

Eric Lee. Tutors: Uwe Rieger, Yan Li. Hybrid artifact consisting of a physical model: made up of a base and interchangeable wings, virtual model: expands the physical models into different forms as...

Sit With Me & You’ll Understand

Donna Luo. Tutor: Anthony Hoete. The studio was a part of a live project for Project Island Song (PIS), an organisation working to improve the biodiversity of plant and birdlife on Urupukapuka...

SS. ISOTOMA

Kenny Chau. Tutors: Uwe Rieger, Yan Li. SS. Isotoma focused on designing an object that explored limits and parameters of object-tracking, a method of projecting augmented information onto a...

Home is In-Between

Ami Ishibashi. Tutors: Lynda Simmons, Tane Pamatatau-Marques. Although New Zealand is a multicultural nation, ethnic groups have been compelled to engage in temporary engagements within public...

CHINATOWN 74

Rebekah Yu. Tutor: Naomi Vallis. From the exterior, the architecture of CHINATOWN 74 reflects the cultural and material hybridity of the existing surrounding site. Within, the interior space also...

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