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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
The Ol’factory
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,...
A Remediating Museum of the Manukau
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...
Liminal Space
Yu Shen. Tutor: Vanessa Coxhead. Project inspired by the form of COVID viruses and personal experience about the isolation situation. I constantly felt the disconnection between me and the world,...
A New Era Of Housing: Little Courtyard, Open Garden
Lily Huang, Billy Wu, Kenny Chau, Emma Wright.Tutor: Raimana Jones. Our Final design, a three-bedroom two-story home, used a central glass courtyard as a source of light between the rooms within....
Lily Pad
Paterinya Diswat.Tutor: Daniel Sik. Lily Pad” is the transformation of the Jopling house by Claude Megson, redesigned to fit the lifestyle of my family during the period of isolation caused by the...
Te Hiku Waihorotiu
Tane Pamatatau-Marques. Tutors: Julie Stout, Lynda Simmons, Savannah Brown. This project seeks to restore Te Waihorotiu to its rightful place at the centre of public life in Tāmaki Makaurau. Through...
Post-Mortem: The Pathologic Theatre for a Dis-eased Campus
Shan Yu. Tutor: Dorita Hannah. The recurrent excision of creative spaces in Auckland demonstrates a compulsive disorder that the University of Auckland is not free from. After the Maidment Theatre...
Koishigure (恋時雨)
Sufyaan Chuttur. Tutor: Mohammed Al-Ali. Koishigure (恋時雨) from my perspective is the temporary moment of a young love promise waiting to be realised in a light drizzling rainfall. A moment in which...
Interwoven
Davis Wu. Tutor: Emma Morris. “Interwoven” is the result of understanding the role of Kāinga Ora and social housing design. The main idea drives of the eel trap (Hīnaki) from the site of Onehunga,...
Ethos
Jack Wu, Wenting Xie. Tutor: Gregor Hoheisel. Architecture on enthusiasm and balance. Ethos is a dual Skyscraper and urban redevelopment project that offers a sense of orientation and belonging,...
Final Developing Project – Over / Away
Xinger Huang. Tutor: Farah Saad. This project will site at the east of the Waitakere Bay, at the corner between the Bethells Road and the Erangi Place. My main purpose of this design is to attract...
Hiapo House – Home and Studio for John Pule
Billy Wallis. Tutor: Matt Liggins. Hiapo House, is the dwelling and home studio of John Pule. He is renowned for his interpolation of the Niuean art of hiapo; an ancient way of communication through...
Poppy House
Tracy Liu. Tutor: Tane Pamatatau-Marques. The red scaffolding that imitates the colour of poppies, which then leads to an interior that contrasts the sombre atmosphere of a memorial...
Te Angaanga Tahataha (The Shell Bank)
Matthew Connolly. Tutor: Jimmi O'Toole. Te Angaanga Tahataha - The Shell Bank : A migratory journey though a unique ecological experience at the Pukorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre Te Angaanga...
A Theatrical Ecology of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Victoria Gancheva. Tutor: Jeremy Treadwell. This project seeks to create a Theatrical Ecology of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It is a drawing-based exploration across knowledge...
The Reconnection
Ferrari Huang. Tutor: Naomi Vallis.The “Reconnection” is a public lookout, located in Eastern Beach. My primary purpose for this architecture is to design a communal space for friends and family, to...
The Way of Flowers: Ikebana Shophouse Tower in Parnell
Ami Ishibashi. Tutor: Michael Milojevic. Situated at the heart of Parnell, this project aims to design a shophouse tower in which private life and making is vertically linked to the ground level La...
Under the Tahuhu: A Language in Reflection of Mātauranga Māori
Hans Hong. Tutors: Tracy Ogden-Cork, Steve Hutana. Ko taku reo taku ohooho, ko taku reo taku mapihi mauria [My language is my awakening, my language is the window to my soul] Through what is...