Josh Currie. Tutor: Lama Tone. Tauranga City has been struggling to maintain liveliness, with many plans currently underway to rejuvenate the largely desolate city centre, though these plans lack a sense of cultural identity and fail to present a Māori worldview to a...
Isabella Muirhead. Tutor: Matt Liggins. ‘Behold the Shed’ aims to reimagine the beloved woolshed as a place of ritual and memory; an embodiment of the essence of rural NZ. The site contains two existing sheds – one is renovated, the other replaced, and an entrance...
Gujin Chung. Tutor: Craig Moller. The concept of a habitable wall was conceived after years of walking past a 45 centimetre gap between 444 and 442 Karangahape Road. I’d always thought to myself “I could probably fit in there.” The course required a design of a window...
Valerie Wong. Tutors: Sarosh Mulla, Aaron Paterson. This design brief required us to investigate restrictions as a means of finding architectural opportunities and innovative solutions. My project considered restrictions arising with the requirements of four family...
Kenny Chau. Tutor: Gregor Hoheisel. Untitled. X is a boutique hotel featuring an open gallery and a series of ten hotel rooms. The rooms and gallery create an experience where the architecture becomes the canvas for the guest. Guests are invited to modify spaces – to...
Janae Van Panahon. Tutor: Lama Tone. This design is inspired by the Māori world view of the Evolution of Creation which focuses on the separation of Ranginui and Papatuanuku. There is an evident tension in the built form to demonstrate the parents' opposition to being...
Oliver Ray-Chaudhuri. Tutor: Craig Moller. This project examines the notion of a hybrid space within the city. The concept of portmanteau was interrogated through a series of preliminary exercises of increasing scale, from a travelling suitcase to a wall detail to a...
Wittawala Teekathananont. Tutor: Craig Moller. The project begins with an exploration into the concept of hybrid architecture through the design of elements in different scales, including a portmanteau, a window-wall connection, a one-room building and an infill...
Jien Lim. Tutors: Rory Kofoed, Liz Tajhana. Heterotopia is a concept introduced by Michel Foucault to describe “other” places that coexists with the real; spaces that are incompatible, that mirrors, contradicts, or transform according to time and place. The idea of...
Mika O’Brien-Ramp. Tutors: Jeremy Treadwell, Cindy Huang. The initial aim of the brief was to explore and challenge the notion of the museum within the context of the Manukau region; its history and culture. This project focuses on food and the diversity of the South...