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 the physical and spiritual world, as the building symbolises the...
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 physical object. The development of the design considered colour, form, and...
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 spaces, like festivals and markets that provide only short-term visibility...
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 showcases the hybrid composition, but divide into smaller rooms to...