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Whakapapa: An Elemental

Whakapapa: An Elemental

Mikala Watene. Tutors: Amber RuckesThis project is a studio for Fred Graham, renowned NZ sculptor and Tainui kaumaatua. It explores how the four elements, water, earth fire and air, might influence...

The Integrated

The Integrated

Naomi Felicia. Tutors: Tom Owens.  As an extension to the existing Auckland Maritime Museum, this project builds on the proportions of the existing structure while utilizing residual space developed...

Kiwi Dreamer

Kiwi Dreamer

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...

Albert Archive

Albert Archive

Sean Xiao Tutors: Maxine GoonThe design process began by taking inspirations from the Wong house, inheriting its spirit of simple geometries, assembling cubic structures, though more integrated, to...

A Journey of Connections

A Journey of Connections

Vincent Heijnen, Ties van Roij, Carmen Tan Tutors: Bhaveeka MadagammanaHaerenga Hononga (A Journey of Connections) is a one roof long whare with a separate utility unit that focuses on...

Silo Tower Terminal

Silo Tower Terminal

Beomsoo Kim.Tutors: Matthew Le Grice, Tom Locke, Liam StumblesAs our world faces an unprecedented environmental crisis, the architecture discipline finds itself increasingly called upon to radically...

Borrow from Nature

Borrow from Nature

Yujie Weng. Tutors: Janae Van PanahonThe harmonious connection between humanity and nature remains a continuous pursuit in architecture. By locating our residential space underground, we move away...

The Camp Out

The Camp Out

Xingyue (Rachel) Lin. Tutors: Craig MollerWe live in an era in need of transformative and regenerative typologies to fill in the gaps of our cities. The Camp-Out is a brief that hopes to answer the...

Mushrooms at Silo Park

Mushrooms at Silo Park

Terry Cheng. Tutors: Matthew Le Grice, Tom Locke, Liam Stumbles A bike ferry terminal at Silo Park embraces sea level rise. Instead of resisting nature, the transport hub is designed to be radically...

Spontaneous Awareness

Spontaneous Awareness

Kyuwon Park. Tutors: Ethan Chung.Through concepts of unity, spontaneity, and appreciation, I created a community house which engages the community through various methods to create a safer...

The Space In Between

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...

The Hinge of the Two Reveries

The Hinge of the Two Reveries

Kelly Ting. Tutors: Pip Newman.As an edge walker between the Eastern and Western cultures, The Hinge of the Two Reveries is my longing for the two role models in my life - dad and grandpa. With the...

Ointment

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....

Kokoru: The Cove Haven

Kokoru: The Cove Haven

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...

Noguchi’s Mu + Ma

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....

Look at yourself !!

Look at yourself !!

Kyuwon Park. Tutor: Michelle Wang. Located it in Wellington, next to the Beehive, this wall aims to create space for self-reflection for people such as protestors or politicians. I created this...

Hay Folly

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

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

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...

The Easel House

The Easel House

Matthew Pritchard. Tutor: Pip Newman. The Easel House serves as a celebration and unique experience of the arts, with the design being informed by my own memories of domestic space. The design motif...

Natural Rhythms

Natural Rhythms

Kimberley Fernandes, Madison Christian. Tutor: Amber Ruckes. Tongan Fijian anthropologist, Epeli Hau’ofa wrote in his text “Our Sea of Islands” that “there is a world of difference between viewing...

The Connection

The Connection

Yujie Weng. Tutor: Tom Collins. Is it possible for two people with opposite living habits in the same house? "The connection" is a residential design for two; a "night owl" who wakes up in the...

Sheltered Horizons: Walk-up Project

Sheltered Horizons: Walk-up Project

Oscar Botha, Ties Van Roij. Tutor: Emilio Garcia. Sheltered Horizons is a walk-up proposal for Kāinga Ora which promotes a sustainable lifestyle, encapsulated by nature. Shelter and protection are...

The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy

Mikala Gaastra. Tutor: Nicole Teh.Inspired by Dante’s, Divine Comedy, my project seeks to architecturalise the journey through Inferno, to Purgatorio and Paradsio beyond. Beginning in the seas of...

Walldoor

Walldoor

Jamie Daly-Jones. Tutor: Nicole Teh. The 'Walldoor' project is primarily a performance wall located in urban environments (Aotea Square). One of the walls key features is the old door facade which...

reCentre

reCentre

Hashley Ricafranca. Tutor: Charmaine 'Ilaiū Talei. In this climate, quarantine is a word associated with the feelings of uncertainty, restriction, and loneliness. Isolation shouldn’t be taken for...

The Patchwork Towers

The Patchwork Towers

Audrey Lam. Tutor: Bill McKay. As Auckland’s CBD becomes more car-free, alternative ways of transportation become more viable and attractive to its residents. This brief challenged us to reimagine...

Hybrid Flats

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...

Interactive Living

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

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...

Queenstown Playcentre Wall

Queenstown Playcentre Wall

Mia Crawshay. Tutor: Hans Hong  This wall design at an existing Playcentre site in Queenstown explores the potential to aid the development of young children. It intends to connect the...

Democratic Dialectic Database

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

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...

Jafa Joy

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...

Project Ultra-Plant

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...

Akoranga North Master Plan

Akoranga North Master Plan

Matthew Bayly. Tutors: Lee Beattie, I-Ting Chuang, Lauren White. The project comprises a masterplan design response to a group framework plan formed earlier in Semester 2.  This stage serves to...

The Dragging of Mauao

The Dragging of Mauao

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...

North Smales Park: Masterplan

North Smales Park: Masterplan

Alexander Wierzbicki. Tutors: Lee Beattie, I-Ting Chuang, Lauren White. North Smales Park will establish a Green Oriented & Transit Oriented Development for Auckland’s North Shore.  A large...

The Mean House

The Mean House

Yiding Zhao. Tutor: Tane Pamatatau-Marques. It is a concept in Ecology which describes that the natural systems are in a state of equilibrium. In artificial space, when people separate the space...

Being with the Stars

Being with the Stars

Kelly Ting. Tutor: Tane Pamatatau-Marques. As an attempt to rediscover one’s sense of orientation lost within a spatial organisation of labyrinth complexity, the transformation of Claude Megson’s...