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....
2020
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...
The Evolution of Creation : Separation of Ranginui and Papatuanuku
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...
The Intermedial
Isabella Muirhead, Sasha Kilmartin, Marie Domingue, Kinki Lo. Tutor: Juliana Wilson. Situated in South Auckland at Fletcher Living’s ‘Waiata Shores’ development, The Intermedial is a project for 100 houses and 2 community buildings. Applying the concepts...
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. Eden Corrections Facility. Two Mountains seeks to acknowledge the...
The Gap
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...
FABRIC_INFILL
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...