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This curated platform exhibits outstanding student work from the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland. Our archive features the best design projects from the Bachelor of Architecture Studies and the first year of Master of Architecture (Professional) programmes produced each semester in each year group since 2020.
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T I E – T W O – A H – R A H
Meaning ‘backbone’, as well as a metaphor for the tide against your back navigating you forward.
In alignment with the aspirations of Taumata Teitei, TAITUARĀ aspires to be a design tool kit for students and staff who are wanting to explore the possibilities of Te Ao Māori within Architecture. TAITUARĀ presents five Māori uara/values for the purpose of exploration.
These values are: Āhuatanga, Whakapapa, Whenua, Kaitiakitanga, and Tikanga. These uara/values will then be used to study six architectural projects.
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 of hanging or sitting kayaks on shelves, the...
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 with extended interior space outside the original...
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 well as giving the opportunity of higher viewing...
Ars Electronica Garden Aotearoa
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 online to allow a global audience to digitally attend...
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 project questions: How might film-makers and the...
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 institutionalised roots towards a contemporary identity as a...
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 busy city residents with its eye-catching presences...
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 Street and the forgotten voids which lie beneath...
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 tension in the built form to demonstrate the parents'...
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 houses and 2 community buildings. Applying the...