2021

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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...

A Building for Sundays

A Building for Sundays

William Martel. Tutors: Chris Barton, Pip Cheshire. A 'Building for Sundays’ articulates the belief that a successful community is built upon relationships between people, activities, and the...

Behold The Shed

Behold The Shed

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...

SBARAAHP

SBARAAHP

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...

The Storyteller

The Storyteller

Ferrari Huang. Tutor: Pip Newman. The design of the mixed-use building, Storyteller, centres itself around the idea of narratives and memories. The project’s cross section is conceptually of a tree...

Islington Bay Kayak Shelter

Islington Bay Kayak Shelter

Laura Zheng. Tutor: Sue Calder. Islington Bay Kayak Shelter is a tranquil place where kayak tour groups can safely store their kayaks and relax and recharge after a long journey paddling from...

Whare Tapere

Whare Tapere

Jeremy Cleland, Shaan Johari, Corban Richter. Tutor: Anthony Hoete. Whare Tapere is a iwi-community 'houses' of storytelling, dance, music, puppets, games and other entertainments. The base concept...

Gallery for the Visually Impaired

Gallery for the Visually Impaired

Nicholas Lanigan. Tutor: Juliana Wilson. The project stems from a photographic and documentation perspective. The use of a camera Obscura created the recurring trend. Capturing the natural...

East Lot 12 / 68 Prospect Terrace

East Lot 12 / 68 Prospect Terrace

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...

Transnational Alumni Portal

Transnational Alumni Portal

Gavin Drinn. Tutor: Graeme Burgess, Gina Hochstein. Albert Park, located on land adjacent to the University of Auckland’s main campus, has an almost forgotten secret, the hidden Air-Raid tunnels...

Untitled. X

Untitled. X

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...

Uku Papakainga

Uku Papakainga

Runlin Cai, Paterinya Diswat, Julia Tang. Tutor: Sue Calder. Uku Papakainga is a humble housing project that focuses on community, sustainability, and cultural inheritance at Hauai Bay, Rawhiti. The...

Elements and Atmosphere

Elements and Atmosphere

Danielle Higgison. Tutor: Amber Ruckes. This project is the study of the atmospheric qualities of the elements Water, Air and Fire in the context of the Norris house by Claude Megson. Through the...

Modern ruins

Modern ruins

Nova Peterson. Tutor: Tane Pamatatau-Marques. The Horrocks house appears from the street as if hidden and consumed by the heavily landscaped gardens around it. On closer view though the nature...

The Good House

The Good House

Oscar Botha. Tutor: Savannah Brown. My development of the Good House is set 79 years in the future, in 2100. Everyday living has been forced indoors as a result of uninhabitable levels of carbon...

Unfold the Folds

Unfold the Folds

Jessica Long. Tutors: Jeremy Smith, Chris Barton. Located on Princes Street in Auckland CBD, the final design functions as a communal library. The strategy revolves around change as folding modules...

HybridArtifact

HybridArtifact

Eric Lee. Tutors: Uwe Rieger, Yan Li. Hybrid artifact consisting of a physical model: made up of a base and interchangeable wings, virtual model: expands the physical models into different forms as...

Sit With Me & You’ll Understand

Sit With Me & You’ll Understand

Donna Luo. Tutor: Anthony Hoete. The studio was a part of a live project for Project Island Song (PIS), an organisation working to improve the biodiversity of plant and birdlife on Urupukapuka...

Rauschenberg Residence

Rauschenberg Residence

Connor Rice. Tutor: Matt Liggins. Rauschenberg Residence is a project to facilitate an artist residency in New Zealand for Robert Rauschenberg, derivative of an in-depth model making process...

Resonant Tower (Over and Away)

Resonant Tower (Over and Away)

Vincent Heijnen. Tutor: Tane Pamatatau-Marques. Drawing inspiration from the resonance as well as the aura of the rimu plank we were given for the ‘Over and Away’ project, I wanted to create a...

The Urban Room – Durban

The Urban Room – Durban

Gavin Drinn. Tutor: Julie Stout. Durban is the largest city in the province of Kwa-Zulu Natal, the “Zulu Kingdom”. It forms the anchor of the eThekwini municipality which has envisioned a land use...

Pūao

Pūao

Shay Klaassen. Tutor: Steve Hutana. Puao is a fourteen-storey skyscraper that embodies the spirit of the Taniwha, protecting the people and the mana in which it surrounds. Bridging the gap between...

SS. ISOTOMA

SS. ISOTOMA

Kenny Chau. Tutors: Uwe Rieger, Yan Li. SS. Isotoma focused on designing an object that explored limits and parameters of object-tracking, a method of projecting augmented information onto a...

Home is In-Between

Home is In-Between

Ami Ishibashi. Tutors: Lynda Simmons, Tane Pamatatau-Marques. Although New Zealand is a multicultural nation, ethnic groups have been compelled to engage in temporary engagements within public...

CHINATOWN 74

CHINATOWN 74

Rebekah Yu. Tutor: Naomi Vallis. From the exterior, the architecture of CHINATOWN 74 reflects the cultural and material hybridity of the existing surrounding site. Within, the interior space also...

The Russell Rejuvenation Initiative

The Russell Rejuvenation Initiative

Grayson Croucher, Kanghyun Kim. Tutor: Karamia Muller. We settled on a proposal to create an avenue that accommodates and acknowledges the regions pre-colonial past. A collection of interventions,...

Whare Manu-Bird Auditorium

Whare Manu-Bird Auditorium

Xingyue (Rachel) Lin.Tutor: Anthony Hoete.The creation of the Whare Manu Bird Auditorium is to introduce a focal point at the entrance of Urupukapuka Island. In partnership with Project Island Song,...

The Clayburn Trust

The Clayburn Trust

Logan Henry. Tutor: Alessandro Premier. Conceptually derived from two “towers,” one for work and one for living. Deliberately bridging between these “towers” through transitional thresholds allows...

The Watchful Ones

The Watchful Ones

Mj Antaran. Tutor: Hans Hong. Mt. Maungarei also known as “The watchful mountain” or the “Mountain of Reipae” - refers back to the legend of the two sisters from Waikato, Reipae and Reitu. Both...

Pourewa Ohe

Pourewa Ohe

Beatrice Totanes. Tutor: Farah Saad. Cautiously thinking about the environmental value the block of Rimu timber withholds and what it represents, the sentiment of remembering our ancestors through...

Kayak shelter

Kayak shelter

Danielle Higgison. Tutor: Tom Collins. To mimic Rangitoto island and its geographical context, a kayak shelter ruptures from the ground, creating an organic formation. The kayak shelter is a public...

Rangitoto Kayak Shelter

Rangitoto Kayak Shelter

Anna Brown. Tutor: Nicole Teh. With storage, the necessity of functionality often outweighs the value of appearance. Instead of hiding the kayaks away in a building using the standard storage method...

The Tower

The Tower

Oscar Botha. Tutor: Michelle Wang. Following Mike Davis’s brief, I designed a lookout tower to sit beside his existing bach. This tower would provide a lookout over the wetlands to the coast, along...

The Clock Tower

The Clock Tower

Kelvin Chen. Tutor: Cindy Huang. This design is abstract based on the overall exterior shape and interior leveling. This building is designed detail and small to fit into Mikes families needs. As...