Ernest (Sehwan) Lee. Tutors: Shan Yu. Ruin House is a residential art studio designed for the sculptor Henry Moore within the Circus Whenua plot over an existing heritage building. The design...
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Spatial Layering
Lily Li. Tutors: Ethan Chung. Inspired by the air element, which moves freely and without constraint, this design promotes the creation of spaces without distinct barriers between indoor and...
Whare Taumata
Danielle Marie Caballero, Faye Justine Velandria, Rina Zhang. Tutors: Matilda Phillips. To accommodate change and adjustment in response to the housing crisis, our project aims to offer homes to...
Papakāinga Housing Scheme For Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Awa
Trista Bailey, Mika Chang & Nadine Gouws. Tutors: Bhaveeka Madagammana. The primary aim of this project was to establish an urban Papakāinga for Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Awa, emphasising a profound...
Ara Hauroki
Paige Walton, Isla Turner & Jasmin Ramlov. Tutors: Michael Thomson. Ara Hauroki is a project born from paper and realized in the form of an analogue model. A Papakainga proposal for the...
LOT 4.
Sophia Yapedzieff-Watson. Tutors: Karamia Muller & Oliver Ray-Chaudhuri. Lot 4 is curated from the raw element’s material, textures and feel to create a home.Taking both of the element’s fire...
Verdant Herbarium
Shnaia Xu. Tutors: Lars Von Minden. For centuries, cultures have shared a bond with bodies of water, and despite its role as a provider, we have regrettably turned our gaze toward the ocean with...
Boggis Bunce & Bean
Terry Cheng. Tutors: Chris Barton, Richard Naish.Cox’s Bay is one of three permanently unswimmable Auckland beaches. A research centre, restaurant, wharf, and parasitic oyster reefs clean up the...
Cultural Haven
Yeyeon Kwak. Tutors: Ethan Chung.The Haven is a communal learning centre and cultural hub below the residence of an elderly Korean couple, which aims to facilitate the reintegration of immigrant...
Te Nohoanga O Te Atua – God’s Abode
Simon Jo. Tutors: Robbie Anderson.Located within a speculative plot of the Felton Mathew plan of Auckland (1841), Te Nohoanga O Te Atua: God’s Abode, explores postcolonial architectural ideas...
Destranded: An Urban Model towards Regenerating Whenua
Matthew Pritchard. Tutors: Dorita Hannah. Tāmaki Makaurau’s Strand Station, sited on land that was once a bay for waka to anchor in and a trading route for Māori, has gradually transitioned into...
Poti Whakaora
Ernest (Sehwan) Lee. Tutors: Xingyue (Rachel) Lin. Poti Whakaora is a kayak shelter that evokes feelings of “welcome” & “rest” through the transition of spaces for users visiting Rangitoto...
The Lighthouse
Vincent Xiao. Tutors: Joanna Theodore. Upon studying Uptown, plagued with a lack of open communal, walkable, and dwellable spaces, we identified 3 core values to improve the conditions of this...
Echo of the Stone Valley
Chenan Zhang. Tutors: Alessandro Premier. “Echo of the Stone Valley” is a captivating fusion of contemporary design and historical significance. Situated on the historic grounds of the "Three King...
Of Other Spaces: The Undocumented Anomalies of Hashima
Kelly Ting. Tutors: Holly Xie. As a ruin, architecture is more, not less. Hashima Island, once a thriving metropolis with the world's highest population density, is now of decaying buildings and...
Whakapapa: An Elemental
Mikala Watene. Tutors: Amber RuckesThis project is a studio for Fred Graham, renowned NZ sculptor and Tainui kaumaatua. It explores how the four elements, water, earth fire and air, might influence...
Won’t You Be My Neighbour?
Terry Cheng. Tutors: Michael MilojevicAt the heart of the Museum of the Walls and Housing tells the story of Spanish genealogy; visitors learn about the significance of multicultural identity and...
Awa and Maunga: Dialogue between Land and Water
Ties Van Roij. Tutors: Lama Tone. Kia Ora, Talofa Lava, I'm Ties This is my project called Awa and Maunga: Dialogue between Land and Water. My approach revolves around three fundamental principles...
The Integrated
Naomi Felicia. Tutors: Tom Owens. As an extension to the existing Auckland Maritime Museum, this project builds on the proportions of the existing structure while utilizing residual space developed...
The Uptown Projection
Jose Benjamin. Tutors: Geoff Pitts. “How do we project/present ourselves to others, and how can that relate to architecture?” “How can the architecture itself exhibit unique characteristics of a...
Permeable Sanctity: Transforming a Convent into an Architectural Epicentre
Shnaia Xu. Tutors: Robin Byron. Deep within the labyrinthine tapestry of Seville's porous cities lies the idea of community, interconnectedness and interdependence. In this intricate urban canvas,...
A Fading Memory: Living Under the Banyan Tree
Yujie Weng. Tutors: Pip Newman. Most of my childhood was spent sitting by the window and watching time passing, or playing around under the giant Banyan tree. The Banyan tree has widely spread...
CSPEIS 6
Eric Ken Shing Wong. Tutors: Pip NewmanDerived from the word Pisces, CSPEIS 6 (Space 6) began with the memories of domestic living and the lightbulb. The invention of the artificial sun allowed us...
Kiwi Dreamer
Karl Poland, Robbie Anderson, Shelley Jiao Tutors: Matt LigginsIn New Zealand, we are fixated on owning a detached family home on a quarter-acre section. This is what New Zealanders have dubbed the...
Union Street Community Centre & Performance Hall
Jasper Newcombe Tutors: Gina HochsteinAcknowledging existing some material, social, and historic conditions, this proposed extension to ‘The Temple of Higher Thought’ at 1 union street takes an...
Albert Archive
Sean Xiao Tutors: Maxine GoonThe design process began by taking inspirations from the Wong house, inheriting its spirit of simple geometries, assembling cubic structures, though more integrated, to...
A Journey of Connections
Vincent Heijnen, Ties van Roij, Carmen Tan Tutors: Bhaveeka MadagammanaHaerenga Hononga (A Journey of Connections) is a one roof long whare with a separate utility unit that focuses on...
Silo Tower Terminal
Beomsoo Kim.Tutors: Matthew Le Grice, Tom Locke, Liam StumblesAs our world faces an unprecedented environmental crisis, the architecture discipline finds itself increasingly called upon to radically...
Borrow from Nature
Yujie Weng. Tutors: Janae Van PanahonThe harmonious connection between humanity and nature remains a continuous pursuit in architecture. By locating our residential space underground, we move away...
The Camp Out
Xingyue (Rachel) Lin. Tutors: Craig MollerWe live in an era in need of transformative and regenerative typologies to fill in the gaps of our cities. The Camp-Out is a brief that hopes to answer the...
Mushrooms at Silo Park
Terry Cheng. Tutors: Matthew Le Grice, Tom Locke, Liam Stumbles A bike ferry terminal at Silo Park embraces sea level rise. Instead of resisting nature, the transport hub is designed to be radically...
Spontaneous Awareness
Kyuwon Park. Tutors: Ethan Chung.Through concepts of unity, spontaneity, and appreciation, I created a community house which engages the community through various methods to create a safer...
The Space In Between
Davis Wu. Tutors: Julie Stout, Lynda SimmonsThe Metro Centre has been part of Auckland's landscape for centuries. The research regarding this project involves the evaluation of Auckland and the...
The Hinge of the Two Reveries
Kelly Ting. Tutors: Pip Newman.As an edge walker between the Eastern and Western cultures, The Hinge of the Two Reveries is my longing for the two role models in my life - dad and grandpa. With the...
Ointment
Christine Tang. Tutors: Ruby Whitaker, Ross Jenner.We are conditioned to strive for perfection, we’re taught to always aim towards excellence, to achieve a life that could be considered paradise....
Kokoru: The Cove Haven
Paterinya Diswat. Tutor: Dorita Hannah. Kokoru: The Cove as Haven and Performing Ground A place where landscape narrates stories A space where theatre is found within nature The conventional theatre...
The Outsiders: The Journey of Lost and Found
Ferrari Huang. Tutor: Dorita Hannah. Both the theatre and urban space are places of representation, assemblage, and exchange between actors and spectators, between the drama and the stage set....
Noguchi’s Mu + Ma
Emille Tatton.Tutor: Matt Liggins.An interpretation of Isamu Noguchi’s art meditation process, carving across the bounds of structure, rejecting rigid uniformity, and embracing the organic....
Look at yourself !!
Kyuwon Park. Tutor: Michelle Wang. Located it in Wellington, next to the Beehive, this wall aims to create space for self-reflection for people such as protestors or politicians. I created this...
Hay Folly
Terry Cheng, Wooyoung Jang, Tim Li. Tutor: Andrew Barrie. The Hay Folly is made of hay bales - the stuff made of paddocks. Much like where it will stand, it is designed to disappear after two years....
Educational Residency
Connor Rice. Tutor: Matt Liggins. The project Educational Residency is designed as a faculty building situated over the Wellesley Street Bridge, designated for both Fine Arts and Architecture...
Sequential Interventions
Yoo Jin Kim. Tutors: Zali McMahon, Tane Pamatatau-Marques. Meola Reef’s identity is made of multiple layers of history and ecology that have formed and amalgamated with each other over time. The...
The Easel House
Matthew Pritchard. Tutor: Pip Newman. The Easel House serves as a celebration and unique experience of the arts, with the design being informed by my own memories of domestic space. The design motif...
Natural Rhythms
Kimberley Fernandes, Madison Christian. Tutor: Amber Ruckes. Tongan Fijian anthropologist, Epeli Hau’ofa wrote in his text “Our Sea of Islands” that “there is a world of difference between viewing...
Whakawhānui – Expansion within the Domestic
Natsune Suzuki, Danielle Higgison, Thomas Nguyen. Tutor: Amber Ruckes. This project, “Whakawhānui”- Expansion within the domestic (Maori for expansion) or “Matariki hanga Nui”, reimagines a rundown...
The Connection
Yujie Weng. Tutor: Tom Collins. Is it possible for two people with opposite living habits in the same house? "The connection" is a residential design for two; a "night owl" who wakes up in the...
Sheltered Horizons: Walk-up Project
Oscar Botha, Ties Van Roij. Tutor: Emilio Garcia. Sheltered Horizons is a walk-up proposal for Kāinga Ora which promotes a sustainable lifestyle, encapsulated by nature. Shelter and protection are...
The Divine Comedy
Mikala Gaastra. Tutor: Nicole Teh.Inspired by Dante’s, Divine Comedy, my project seeks to architecturalise the journey through Inferno, to Purgatorio and Paradsio beyond. Beginning in the seas of...
Walldoor
Jamie Daly-Jones. Tutor: Nicole Teh. The 'Walldoor' project is primarily a performance wall located in urban environments (Aotea Square). One of the walls key features is the old door facade which...
reCentre
Hashley Ricafranca. Tutor: Charmaine 'Ilaiū Talei. In this climate, quarantine is a word associated with the feelings of uncertainty, restriction, and loneliness. Isolation shouldn’t be taken for...