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 re-explore the site, context, principles and vision to inform a unique...
2021
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 sense of cultural identity and fail to present a Māori worldview to a...
An Idyllic Pastoral Urban Story
Daijun Zuo. Tutors: Lee Beattie, I-Ting Chuang, Lauren White. In this project, we want to preserve a beautiful pastoral scenery in the continuously developing urban environment and build a Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) model for the community as well as promote a...
Masterplan: Akoranga North Development
Monica Aung. Tutors: Lee Beattie, I-Ting Chuang, Lauren White. Masterplan: Akoranga North Development aims to explore the interdependencies of urban design amongst various scales. This project intends to create a transit-oriented development as a new proposition for...
Akoranga North. A masterplan for the re-development of the Takapuna Golf Course
Lucy Okeefe. Tutors: Lee Beattie, I-Ting Chuang, Lauren White. ‘A transit oriented development as a new proposition for urban form in Tamaki Makaurau - Akoranga North is to be an urban oasis, in harmony with the natural environment, where people can physically...
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 green spine will provide a unifying element at multiple scales: Small -...
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 into small scale, the balance might be broken. When I first visited...
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 Horrocks House into an observatory seeks to look towards the stars. The...
Life, Death and Rebirth : The Arrival, The Liminal, and The Spirit
Janae Van Panahon. Tutor: Lama Tone. This project aims to provide a space that embodies indigenous Polynesian identities to essentially establish a place to stand for the people. The narrative revolves around the cyclic rhythm of Life, Death and Rebirth - expressed in...
Vertical Revolve: Inverting the Auckland Corridor
Sybrand de Waal. Tutors: Jeremy Smith, Kim Huynh. Walking down Queen Street, one is contained in a horizontal corridor of solid built fabric. This horizontality persists throughout the macro context and individual buildings even after their facades are stripped away...