Monday 3 April 2017
April workshop ABSTRACTS
Andrea Murray
The Christchurch Residential Red Zone -A Memorial Landscape Honouring Displaced People
The Red Zone, known as the RRZ, feels like a very sad place. Even a brief drive through the vacant land disturbs the viewer. It has a dark cloud of loss hanging over it. The viewer shakes their head; how can that vast space (1000 acres) be used in a way that is honest and meaningful to the people? 10,000 people lost their sense of place on the land (Turangawaewae- Place to Stand) after the earthquakes, in addition to 185 families losing a loved one. It was the ‘Land’ and its extraordinary power that caused the deaths and the displacement of so many. Maybe it can be the ‘Land’ that helps the people of Christchurch heal and gain a sense of closure? The Red Zone as a Memorial Landscape is not about making everyone forget about earthquakes and the pain of loss, in fact the opposite. A Memorial Landscape should honour the disaster and all the displaced people who lost more than their homes, a Memorial Landscape to honour a sense of place on the land, Turangawaewae.
This loss of place on the land is a huge global problem, (as are earthquakes and tsunamis), the enormity of such problems can make us feel out of balance. A Memorial Landscape in Christchurch should honour both disasters and displacement and aim to restore a response of balance to the visitor. Creating a Memorial Landscape should not try to make us forget, rather it should make us remember displaced people and that we are grateful to have a place on the land (Turangawaewae).
Jie Zhang
The Bioregional Park: an approach to protect the environment and make sustainable public space and commemorate the visit of Captain Cook
In today's society, people are not very concerned about the relationship between human actions and human impact on the environment. This phenomenon has led to a society which attitude consequently results in overconsumption of natural resources and environmental degradation. As more and more people live in cities restoration, preservation and enhancement of biodiversity in urban areas has become important. This paper will present a concept of bioregional ideal. Using this concept, it does will help to change people's ideas about human relationship to the environment and natural resources from the current condition.
This research will use a bioregional park design project to show how to improve the environment, protect the natural resources, connect people to nature and make a habitat for ecosystems of plants and animals.
Qian Wang
Developing the greenery: Investigating School Ground Greening in Auckland
Rationales for the recent (ten plus years) resurgence in interest in school gardens focus on perceptions adults have about modern childhood and schooling, e.g. lacking in physical activity, facing an obesity epidemic, battling inflexible educational systems, raising concerns about children’s diminishing contact with nature and natural systems.
Research on school ground greening projects (which is a overarching term including school gardens) has established benefits due to increasing children’s connections with nature on a number of levels, such as developing earth guardianship responsibilities, learning where food comes from, science and ecology learning, encouraging physical exercise and imaginative play.
This project will investigate the claim that many school gardens are limited both in their scope and children’s participation, especially in their planning and design. Instead they are frequently designed and constructed in an ad hoc manner by
teachers and volunteers, missing the opportunity both to engage children in a process of learning about design (co-design) and to create ecologically richer school grounds that are creatively designed to encourage indoor-outdoor connections, sensibly planned for maintenance and sensitively planned to increase biodiversity and provide ecosystem services within communities.
Base-line data about numbers and range of school ground greening projects in the Auckland area will be sought, as well as the involvement of landscape architects. From this a methodology for encouraging greater collaboration between landscape architects and school students in school ground greening projects will be developed, with the aim of improving school grounds and student learning, as well as increasing the educational contribution, stewardship responsibility and discipline awareness of landscape architects.
Kael
Reclamation Park
My research question is how to make coastal areas more accessible to public, especially that are severed by motorway. Actually, there are already many limitation for public to close the coastline, including rough condition of geography, natural limitation, have to cross private possessions and construction of motorway. My research will focus on the last topic. Many countries meet similar issues and some of them are solved but different methods fortunately. My research aims to find out some possible solutions for this issue and I chose Shoal Bay as my research site. In the site, the current coastal area is very limited and also severed by the Motorway. In my design, I want to use land reclamation technique and some other methods to make the coastal area more available and reconnect it to the community.
Jane Park
THE PAST, THE PRESENT, THE POSSIBLE.
This research project will explore how high levels of anthrophony is distorting Auckland’s biophonic landscape, and how this muffled topic of discussion may be a cry of warning falling onto deaf ears.
“Although the epidemics and infectious diseases targeted by public health agencies during the last 130 years have largely been eradicated in the Western, industrial world, preventable lifestyle diseases have replaced them.” (Robin C. Moore, 2008)
There are opportunities to help mitigate and bring attention to this muted problem by concentrating on present sites with pre-existing sound barriers.
“The fact is that there is no other choice but to fully engage the urban planning, landscape architecture, and architecture professions in creating new, nature-based urban development policies to help ameliorate the new lifestyle health issues.” (Robin C. Moore, 2008)
Despite through explanation of the requirements in the NZTA guidelines, multiple case studies reviewed by NZTA themselves discover the current design standard of sound barriers are only meeting the bare minimum of what is categorized as ‘appropriate’ sound alleviations in effected zones. And astoundingly, all of the case studies concluded with a ‘Lessons learnt’ section where complications at each particular project were left unresolved but assured to be resolved in following projects.
“Since the opening of the new bypass, residents at five properties have complained of noise effects including increased truck noise, reflected railway noise, as well as a general increase in road-traffic noise.” (Hannaby, 2013b)
“The NZTA should set clear performance specifications (acoustic and non-acoustic) for noise barriers and if new products are to be trialed on site, contingency plans should be prepared in case the product does not meet the specifications.” (Hannaby, 2013a)
The goal of this project will be in two parts. Firstly, to address the need of re-tuning the design language. As the current language used to communicate the objective of public acoustic design reflects the biased value structure within the manner Auckland is approaching noise barriers. Dually addressed will be the deeper issue on the importance of Auckland’s acoustic heritage that is becoming rapidly diminished through poor design considerations and failing to adopt contemporary solutions. Referencing Te Aranga Principals, mainly Mauri Yu & Taiaio sections referring to the wellbeing of the land and its native inhabitants I predict to be engaging with design solutions that integrate habitat protection, visual amenity, climate protection, storm water management and environmental education.
Yuan Zhang
The Critical Role of Urban Ecology in Designing a Green Space Infrastructure Network for Auckland, New Zealand.
The pressures of global population growth, migration, and increasing urban densities present significant issues to the health of cities. These pressures are more evident in growing mid-size cities that often show proximate, contrasting patterns of human infrastructure systems and natural ecosystems. Urban studies tend of describe such patterns negatively, and often as critical ecological problems such as landscape fragmentation (Forman, 2014), degrading water quality (van Room, 2004), flooding and increasing water-borne pollution (Pickett et al., 2013; Pickett & Cadenasso, 2008), reduction of green space and biodiversity (Wu, 2014). However, many of these authors also reflect on the values that arise of urbanization and the opportunities to link the logic of urbanism with that ecology to frame a new and valuable development paradigm. This project explores design opportunities, specifically in creating an urban green space network as described by Borrett (2014), Derbyshire & Wright (2014), Li (2015), Niemelä (2014) in Auckland, as a model mid-size global city. This research and design project aims to show how to design a urban spatial model that adds value of the integrated stormwater management, low-impact design and other similar model solutions being used by Auckland City.
Leah Alexander
A Code of Practice for Landscape Assessment Under the RMA?
Recently MFE and NZILA abandoned a workstream that would have seen a Landscape Assessment Code of Practice developed. This research looks at the drivers behind the original CoP proposal and the reasons for its withdrawal, then considers whether a CoP is a necessary or desirable tool to apply to Landscape Assessment. Depending on the findings, a CoP or alternative design response will be developed and tested.
Qun Sun
Food Bowl Futures
Landscapes of Production in the Goulburn Valley after High Speed Rail
The context for the project is the City of Greater Shepparton (pop. 66,222), which is situated 190km north‐ northeast of Melbourne. As one of ten designated ‘regional cities’ in Victoria. While Shepparton is the center of a relatively vibrant and prosperous region, it is nonetheless grappling with social and environmental challenges that climate change and ongoing socioeconomic restructuring will exacerbate. The construction of a high-speed rail link along the east coast has been the target of several investigations since the early 1980s. Air travel dominates the inter-capital travel market, and intra-rural travel is almost exclusively car-based. Rail has a significant presence in the rural / city fringe commuter market, but inter-capital rail currently has very low market share due to low speeds and infrequent service. A mature high-speed rail system would be economically competitive with air and automobile travel, provide mass transit without dependence on imported oil, have a duration of travel that would compare with air travel or be quicker, and would reduce national carbon dioxide emissions.
Agenda
Food Bowl Futures will explore how large‐scale infrastructure projects rescale territories and mediate our relationship to the environment. The project will unpack the complexity of one large infrastructure proposal – the East Coast High Speed Rail (HSR) project – to identify the relationships it will disrupt across an entire urban landscape. Instead of fixing our gaze upon HSR directly, the projet will explore the interstitial spaces of the region – the margins and interior peripheries – for landscape design opportunities.
Vandita Ahlawat
Beyond Net Zero Neighborhoods:
How can the inherent pressures of urban sprawl be used as an opportunity to design communities as net-positive resources for our natural environments?
This research explores the impact of the expanding city through a lens of long-term urban resilience. Despite the apparent negativity associated with urban sprawl, case-studies show that net-zero neighborhoods are economically feasible, and can provide some ecological significance to community design. The critical problem of community development actually rests in the assumption that development is necessarily damaging to natural systems. From this, the designer’s role must then be to mitigate the level of expected damage. Yet, the pressures of development may offer opportunities to enhance our natural environments. Whereas projects that seek a net-zero energy communities are increasingly able to meet greenhouse gas and carbon targets, what is needed is an urbanism that understands community design as net-positive value to ecological and social environments. The goal of this project is to design a model community that achieves this goal by exploring the relationships between net-zero neighborhoods and resilience theory.
Irawan Chandra Arief
The Pier Connection
Can an environmental risk from a new reclamation land be minimized?
A future motorway is planned to be built in Onehunga connecting SH 1 and SH 20, improving travel times between Onehunga - Penrose industrial area and provide more reliable bus journey times. Meanwhile, this future motorway might cut a connection between people and sea, which is contradictive with one of the Auckland waterfront vision 2014 principles.
Land reclamation is a common technique to expand land surface on water, giving access for people to have easy access to get to open space on water's edge. But this technique is well known for its bad issue, ruin coral habitat under the sea and swipe existing mangrove forest at the coastline. However, there is another option such as pier structure that still able to provide space above the sea, where people can use to walk or even build something on top.
Using a site at Onehunga between Taumanu reserve and Onehunga port, this project trying to answer those issues and trying to find an alternative way on how a new space built on top of water can be an environmental friendly with studies from some existing project, literature, and discussion with professional.
Nguyen Thien Ngan
Vertical Village in the heart of Auckland CBD
This thesis project is an architectural response to the Auckland Central Business District (CBD)’s revitalization. Due to high migration net flows and blooming of business activities in Auckland CBD, the commercial and residential building projects rapidly appear to be essential in order not only to capture the development of business and economy but also to adapt to the population’s growth. At present, the Auckland transportation is undergoing a great redevelopment to have new City Rail Link (CRL) stations to support the future growth in Auckland. One of the key hubs is the Aotea station which is promising the busiest station for students, employees and residents who are working and living in CBD.
Auckland CBD is a prominent education and business area but where also lacks high density architecture. The apartment and office buildings are standing alone which is the main cause of the urban sprawl. The “shoebox” is mostly used to describe these apartments due to the lack of space and affordability for those who want to live and work proximately and centrally. It is maybe a time to think about the appropriate way of living and working to engage the community rather than focusing on the single use design or creating the individual space.
The research is based on the urban development strategies to create a small community in a mixed-use building which offers people many opportunities to live sustainably, to work productively and to play enjoyably while still is able to grow with the urban development.
The question for this project is: What are the desirable characteristic of an architectural design that provides a more resilient and sustainable way of living and working in Auckland CBD towards the future growth? This project will focus on the design of the building which is shaped by the impact of the movement circulation and flows from the station’s passenger. It will also determine the important functional strategies that are suitable and interactive with the Aotea station as well as the location’s features. The brief chosen is to design a mixed-use community that blends the residential, commercial use and other amenities. The purpose of the project is not only to encourage communication between neighbors and local people, strengthen the benefits of future business but also to connect Auckland residents with employment and opportunities."
Janki Sharma
Transitional space is the intermediate area acting as an in-between space. Traditionally spaces were defined as indoor or outdoor spaces. The presence of transitional space was not experienced. So this research will be focusing on these transitional spaces and the journey of spaces from one place to another.
This research will be an implementation of design by intertwining the publications and case studies that are related to the topic. It will also attempt to identify what defines a transitional space that enhances the pedestrian experience in urban environment. Also, inserting architectural intervention with multi-functional public usage that intensify the sense of transitional space and connects it with urban fabric.
The Christchurch Residential Red Zone -A Memorial Landscape Honouring Displaced People
The Red Zone, known as the RRZ, feels like a very sad place. Even a brief drive through the vacant land disturbs the viewer. It has a dark cloud of loss hanging over it. The viewer shakes their head; how can that vast space (1000 acres) be used in a way that is honest and meaningful to the people? 10,000 people lost their sense of place on the land (Turangawaewae- Place to Stand) after the earthquakes, in addition to 185 families losing a loved one. It was the ‘Land’ and its extraordinary power that caused the deaths and the displacement of so many. Maybe it can be the ‘Land’ that helps the people of Christchurch heal and gain a sense of closure? The Red Zone as a Memorial Landscape is not about making everyone forget about earthquakes and the pain of loss, in fact the opposite. A Memorial Landscape should honour the disaster and all the displaced people who lost more than their homes, a Memorial Landscape to honour a sense of place on the land, Turangawaewae.
This loss of place on the land is a huge global problem, (as are earthquakes and tsunamis), the enormity of such problems can make us feel out of balance. A Memorial Landscape in Christchurch should honour both disasters and displacement and aim to restore a response of balance to the visitor. Creating a Memorial Landscape should not try to make us forget, rather it should make us remember displaced people and that we are grateful to have a place on the land (Turangawaewae).
Jie Zhang
The Bioregional Park: an approach to protect the environment and make sustainable public space and commemorate the visit of Captain Cook
In today's society, people are not very concerned about the relationship between human actions and human impact on the environment. This phenomenon has led to a society which attitude consequently results in overconsumption of natural resources and environmental degradation. As more and more people live in cities restoration, preservation and enhancement of biodiversity in urban areas has become important. This paper will present a concept of bioregional ideal. Using this concept, it does will help to change people's ideas about human relationship to the environment and natural resources from the current condition.
This research will use a bioregional park design project to show how to improve the environment, protect the natural resources, connect people to nature and make a habitat for ecosystems of plants and animals.
Qian Wang
Developing the greenery: Investigating School Ground Greening in Auckland
Rationales for the recent (ten plus years) resurgence in interest in school gardens focus on perceptions adults have about modern childhood and schooling, e.g. lacking in physical activity, facing an obesity epidemic, battling inflexible educational systems, raising concerns about children’s diminishing contact with nature and natural systems.
Research on school ground greening projects (which is a overarching term including school gardens) has established benefits due to increasing children’s connections with nature on a number of levels, such as developing earth guardianship responsibilities, learning where food comes from, science and ecology learning, encouraging physical exercise and imaginative play.
This project will investigate the claim that many school gardens are limited both in their scope and children’s participation, especially in their planning and design. Instead they are frequently designed and constructed in an ad hoc manner by
teachers and volunteers, missing the opportunity both to engage children in a process of learning about design (co-design) and to create ecologically richer school grounds that are creatively designed to encourage indoor-outdoor connections, sensibly planned for maintenance and sensitively planned to increase biodiversity and provide ecosystem services within communities.
Base-line data about numbers and range of school ground greening projects in the Auckland area will be sought, as well as the involvement of landscape architects. From this a methodology for encouraging greater collaboration between landscape architects and school students in school ground greening projects will be developed, with the aim of improving school grounds and student learning, as well as increasing the educational contribution, stewardship responsibility and discipline awareness of landscape architects.
Kael
Reclamation Park
My research question is how to make coastal areas more accessible to public, especially that are severed by motorway. Actually, there are already many limitation for public to close the coastline, including rough condition of geography, natural limitation, have to cross private possessions and construction of motorway. My research will focus on the last topic. Many countries meet similar issues and some of them are solved but different methods fortunately. My research aims to find out some possible solutions for this issue and I chose Shoal Bay as my research site. In the site, the current coastal area is very limited and also severed by the Motorway. In my design, I want to use land reclamation technique and some other methods to make the coastal area more available and reconnect it to the community.
Jane Park
THE PAST, THE PRESENT, THE POSSIBLE.
This research project will explore how high levels of anthrophony is distorting Auckland’s biophonic landscape, and how this muffled topic of discussion may be a cry of warning falling onto deaf ears.
“Although the epidemics and infectious diseases targeted by public health agencies during the last 130 years have largely been eradicated in the Western, industrial world, preventable lifestyle diseases have replaced them.” (Robin C. Moore, 2008)
There are opportunities to help mitigate and bring attention to this muted problem by concentrating on present sites with pre-existing sound barriers.
“The fact is that there is no other choice but to fully engage the urban planning, landscape architecture, and architecture professions in creating new, nature-based urban development policies to help ameliorate the new lifestyle health issues.” (Robin C. Moore, 2008)
Despite through explanation of the requirements in the NZTA guidelines, multiple case studies reviewed by NZTA themselves discover the current design standard of sound barriers are only meeting the bare minimum of what is categorized as ‘appropriate’ sound alleviations in effected zones. And astoundingly, all of the case studies concluded with a ‘Lessons learnt’ section where complications at each particular project were left unresolved but assured to be resolved in following projects.
“Since the opening of the new bypass, residents at five properties have complained of noise effects including increased truck noise, reflected railway noise, as well as a general increase in road-traffic noise.” (Hannaby, 2013b)
“The NZTA should set clear performance specifications (acoustic and non-acoustic) for noise barriers and if new products are to be trialed on site, contingency plans should be prepared in case the product does not meet the specifications.” (Hannaby, 2013a)
The goal of this project will be in two parts. Firstly, to address the need of re-tuning the design language. As the current language used to communicate the objective of public acoustic design reflects the biased value structure within the manner Auckland is approaching noise barriers. Dually addressed will be the deeper issue on the importance of Auckland’s acoustic heritage that is becoming rapidly diminished through poor design considerations and failing to adopt contemporary solutions. Referencing Te Aranga Principals, mainly Mauri Yu & Taiaio sections referring to the wellbeing of the land and its native inhabitants I predict to be engaging with design solutions that integrate habitat protection, visual amenity, climate protection, storm water management and environmental education.
Yuan Zhang
The Critical Role of Urban Ecology in Designing a Green Space Infrastructure Network for Auckland, New Zealand.
The pressures of global population growth, migration, and increasing urban densities present significant issues to the health of cities. These pressures are more evident in growing mid-size cities that often show proximate, contrasting patterns of human infrastructure systems and natural ecosystems. Urban studies tend of describe such patterns negatively, and often as critical ecological problems such as landscape fragmentation (Forman, 2014), degrading water quality (van Room, 2004), flooding and increasing water-borne pollution (Pickett et al., 2013; Pickett & Cadenasso, 2008), reduction of green space and biodiversity (Wu, 2014). However, many of these authors also reflect on the values that arise of urbanization and the opportunities to link the logic of urbanism with that ecology to frame a new and valuable development paradigm. This project explores design opportunities, specifically in creating an urban green space network as described by Borrett (2014), Derbyshire & Wright (2014), Li (2015), Niemelä (2014) in Auckland, as a model mid-size global city. This research and design project aims to show how to design a urban spatial model that adds value of the integrated stormwater management, low-impact design and other similar model solutions being used by Auckland City.
Leah Alexander
A Code of Practice for Landscape Assessment Under the RMA?
Recently MFE and NZILA abandoned a workstream that would have seen a Landscape Assessment Code of Practice developed. This research looks at the drivers behind the original CoP proposal and the reasons for its withdrawal, then considers whether a CoP is a necessary or desirable tool to apply to Landscape Assessment. Depending on the findings, a CoP or alternative design response will be developed and tested.
Qun Sun
Food Bowl Futures
Landscapes of Production in the Goulburn Valley after High Speed Rail
The context for the project is the City of Greater Shepparton (pop. 66,222), which is situated 190km north‐ northeast of Melbourne. As one of ten designated ‘regional cities’ in Victoria. While Shepparton is the center of a relatively vibrant and prosperous region, it is nonetheless grappling with social and environmental challenges that climate change and ongoing socioeconomic restructuring will exacerbate. The construction of a high-speed rail link along the east coast has been the target of several investigations since the early 1980s. Air travel dominates the inter-capital travel market, and intra-rural travel is almost exclusively car-based. Rail has a significant presence in the rural / city fringe commuter market, but inter-capital rail currently has very low market share due to low speeds and infrequent service. A mature high-speed rail system would be economically competitive with air and automobile travel, provide mass transit without dependence on imported oil, have a duration of travel that would compare with air travel or be quicker, and would reduce national carbon dioxide emissions.
Agenda
Food Bowl Futures will explore how large‐scale infrastructure projects rescale territories and mediate our relationship to the environment. The project will unpack the complexity of one large infrastructure proposal – the East Coast High Speed Rail (HSR) project – to identify the relationships it will disrupt across an entire urban landscape. Instead of fixing our gaze upon HSR directly, the projet will explore the interstitial spaces of the region – the margins and interior peripheries – for landscape design opportunities.
Vandita Ahlawat
Beyond Net Zero Neighborhoods:
How can the inherent pressures of urban sprawl be used as an opportunity to design communities as net-positive resources for our natural environments?
This research explores the impact of the expanding city through a lens of long-term urban resilience. Despite the apparent negativity associated with urban sprawl, case-studies show that net-zero neighborhoods are economically feasible, and can provide some ecological significance to community design. The critical problem of community development actually rests in the assumption that development is necessarily damaging to natural systems. From this, the designer’s role must then be to mitigate the level of expected damage. Yet, the pressures of development may offer opportunities to enhance our natural environments. Whereas projects that seek a net-zero energy communities are increasingly able to meet greenhouse gas and carbon targets, what is needed is an urbanism that understands community design as net-positive value to ecological and social environments. The goal of this project is to design a model community that achieves this goal by exploring the relationships between net-zero neighborhoods and resilience theory.
Irawan Chandra Arief
The Pier Connection
Can an environmental risk from a new reclamation land be minimized?
A future motorway is planned to be built in Onehunga connecting SH 1 and SH 20, improving travel times between Onehunga - Penrose industrial area and provide more reliable bus journey times. Meanwhile, this future motorway might cut a connection between people and sea, which is contradictive with one of the Auckland waterfront vision 2014 principles.
Land reclamation is a common technique to expand land surface on water, giving access for people to have easy access to get to open space on water's edge. But this technique is well known for its bad issue, ruin coral habitat under the sea and swipe existing mangrove forest at the coastline. However, there is another option such as pier structure that still able to provide space above the sea, where people can use to walk or even build something on top.
Using a site at Onehunga between Taumanu reserve and Onehunga port, this project trying to answer those issues and trying to find an alternative way on how a new space built on top of water can be an environmental friendly with studies from some existing project, literature, and discussion with professional.
Nguyen Thien Ngan
Vertical Village in the heart of Auckland CBD
This thesis project is an architectural response to the Auckland Central Business District (CBD)’s revitalization. Due to high migration net flows and blooming of business activities in Auckland CBD, the commercial and residential building projects rapidly appear to be essential in order not only to capture the development of business and economy but also to adapt to the population’s growth. At present, the Auckland transportation is undergoing a great redevelopment to have new City Rail Link (CRL) stations to support the future growth in Auckland. One of the key hubs is the Aotea station which is promising the busiest station for students, employees and residents who are working and living in CBD.
Auckland CBD is a prominent education and business area but where also lacks high density architecture. The apartment and office buildings are standing alone which is the main cause of the urban sprawl. The “shoebox” is mostly used to describe these apartments due to the lack of space and affordability for those who want to live and work proximately and centrally. It is maybe a time to think about the appropriate way of living and working to engage the community rather than focusing on the single use design or creating the individual space.
The research is based on the urban development strategies to create a small community in a mixed-use building which offers people many opportunities to live sustainably, to work productively and to play enjoyably while still is able to grow with the urban development.
The question for this project is: What are the desirable characteristic of an architectural design that provides a more resilient and sustainable way of living and working in Auckland CBD towards the future growth? This project will focus on the design of the building which is shaped by the impact of the movement circulation and flows from the station’s passenger. It will also determine the important functional strategies that are suitable and interactive with the Aotea station as well as the location’s features. The brief chosen is to design a mixed-use community that blends the residential, commercial use and other amenities. The purpose of the project is not only to encourage communication between neighbors and local people, strengthen the benefits of future business but also to connect Auckland residents with employment and opportunities."
Janki Sharma
Transitional space is the intermediate area acting as an in-between space. Traditionally spaces were defined as indoor or outdoor spaces. The presence of transitional space was not experienced. So this research will be focusing on these transitional spaces and the journey of spaces from one place to another.
This research will be an implementation of design by intertwining the publications and case studies that are related to the topic. It will also attempt to identify what defines a transitional space that enhances the pedestrian experience in urban environment. Also, inserting architectural intervention with multi-functional public usage that intensify the sense of transitional space and connects it with urban fabric.
April Workshop Critics
Nick Robinson
Nick Robinson has an established reputation for high quality design, diligent landscape assessment and distinctive streetscapes from his work in New Zealand and the UK. He promotes sustainability through water sensitive design, green roofs and living walls, innovative planting design and protection and enhancement of biodiversity, both in public spaces and private gardens.
Sybil Bloomfield
Sybil Bloomfield is director of Bloomfield & Bark and a lecturer at Unitec teaching Visual Communication, History and Theory, and Design Studio. Sybil’s masters project at VUW explored the role of open spaces in increasing the adaptive capacity of New Zealand coastal communities in the face of climate related change.
Bill McKay
Bill McKay teaches at Masters level and runs the MArch (Prof) Professional Studies courses in the School of Architecture and Planning. He writes extensively on New Zealand architecture and urban design issues in books, journals and magazines such as Architecture New Zealand. His commentary and criticism over the last decade have been recognised by the NZ Institute of Architects with a President's Award, and Urbis magazine named him Best Architectural Writer.
He recently published Worship: A History of New Zealand Church Design, illustrated by award winning photographer Jane Ussher. His previous book Beyond the State: NZ State Houses from Modest to Modern (with Andrea Stevens and Simon Devitt) was a 2014 NZ Post Book Awards finalist and a Listener 100 Best Books selection and he speaks extensively on the subject of social housing. He has also made extensive contributions to recent books Long Live the Modern and Group Architects: Towards a New Zealand Architecture.
His PhD research is focused on the war memorial halls of the First Labour Government and their contribution to modernism in post-war New Zealand. He is also working on a design history of Auckland entitled Awkward City, a history of the country’s built environment, Making New Zealand, and (with Jason Mann) a field guide and website dedicated to South Pacific architecture.
Will Thresher
Will Thresher formed Thresher Associates 1998 on the strength of his extensive urban design and landscape architectural experience in the UK. The practice has since developed a solid track record of completed projects in both commercial and public sectors continuing to widen its client base locally and internationally
All public projects involve consultation with private and public stakeholders and liaison with other consultants. The practice specialises in delivering design consultancy packages carefully tailored to clients' needs, aspirations and budgets. Workload is typically diverse with involvement on a broad range of tasks and project types. Will has been a member of the Urban Design Panel since 2004 and his role has been extended by participation in specially convened panels for key schemes.
Dr. Janine Randerson
Dr. Janine Randerson is the Programme Leader Master of Performance and Media Arts AUT. Janine is also a New Zealand-based media artist. A research thread in Janine’s work is the technological mediation in ecological systems with a particular focus on the environment. Randerson has collaborated with environmental scientists on residencies and projects with NIWA, BoM (Bureau of Meteorology) in Melbourne and NERI (National Environmental Research Institute) in Denmark. Her current projects situate media art in relation to water, weather and politics both locally (Other Waters: Art on the Manukau in Onehunga) as well as internationally.
Lauren White
Lauren White is a senior urban designer and senior associate at Harrison Grierson. She’s also on the staff of Auckland University, teaching in the Master of Urban Design programme. Lauren has over 15 years’ experience on a wide range of public and private sector projects in New Zealand and overseas. Her particular skills in design and conceptual thinking enable her to scope projects and contribute creatively at all stages of project development. Lauren’s experience ranges from architectural design, housing and master planning projects to large growth planning projects. She’s also experienced in development feasibility projects and public consultation. Lauren has a Bachelor of Architectural Studies and a Master of City Planning and Urban Design. She’s an associate of the MNZPI and a member of the Urban Design Forum
Dr Fleur Palmer
Dr Fleur Palmer Te Rarawa/Te Aupouri is an Architect, Spatial Activist and Senior Lecturer of Spatial Design in the Faculty of Design & Creative Technologies, Auckland University of Technology.
Dr Fleur Palmer's award winning Ph.D focused on the displacement of Māori communities through colonisation and is the first doctorate to investigate to implications of discriminatory practices on housing outcomes in Aotearoa. Through her innovative collaborative practice she supported the creation of an affordable housing project in Kaitaia for He Korowai Trust that also featured in a documentary on social housing directed by Briar March called A Place called Home. In her collaborative practices, she worked with 7 marae from the North Hokianga, and the Hawke family from Ngati Whatua to generate visualisations of future development to reflect the core social and the cultural values of these communities in support of self-determination.
Ken Davis
Ken is a registered architect with 31 years of experience in urban design, architecture, commercial interior design and product /street furniture design in Melbourne, Wellington and Auckland.
He has worked, principally in the private sector, with a diverse range of clients from property developers, property investors and property managers, government departments, city councils and large private sector institutions and has developed a range of skills and experience in the areas of strategic and conceptual design, client liaison, project coordination and management and communication and design management.
Ken is experienced in managing large teams of in-house and external building professional in a variety of complex award winning projects including railway stations, museums and libraries, office fitouts and multi-level housing developments
In addition, Ken is considered one of the country’s leading experts on the history of New Zealand’s State Housing projects of the mid-20th Century, through his influential undergraduate thesis “A Liberal State of Mind - The Architectural Work of F Gordon Wilson 1936-1959 - A Cultural Analysis” about F Gordon Wilson the first Principal Architect of the Department of Housing Construction from 1936 until his death in 1959 as Government Architect
Nick Robinson has an established reputation for high quality design, diligent landscape assessment and distinctive streetscapes from his work in New Zealand and the UK. He promotes sustainability through water sensitive design, green roofs and living walls, innovative planting design and protection and enhancement of biodiversity, both in public spaces and private gardens.
Sybil Bloomfield
Sybil Bloomfield is director of Bloomfield & Bark and a lecturer at Unitec teaching Visual Communication, History and Theory, and Design Studio. Sybil’s masters project at VUW explored the role of open spaces in increasing the adaptive capacity of New Zealand coastal communities in the face of climate related change.
Bill McKay
Bill McKay teaches at Masters level and runs the MArch (Prof) Professional Studies courses in the School of Architecture and Planning. He writes extensively on New Zealand architecture and urban design issues in books, journals and magazines such as Architecture New Zealand. His commentary and criticism over the last decade have been recognised by the NZ Institute of Architects with a President's Award, and Urbis magazine named him Best Architectural Writer.
He recently published Worship: A History of New Zealand Church Design, illustrated by award winning photographer Jane Ussher. His previous book Beyond the State: NZ State Houses from Modest to Modern (with Andrea Stevens and Simon Devitt) was a 2014 NZ Post Book Awards finalist and a Listener 100 Best Books selection and he speaks extensively on the subject of social housing. He has also made extensive contributions to recent books Long Live the Modern and Group Architects: Towards a New Zealand Architecture.
His PhD research is focused on the war memorial halls of the First Labour Government and their contribution to modernism in post-war New Zealand. He is also working on a design history of Auckland entitled Awkward City, a history of the country’s built environment, Making New Zealand, and (with Jason Mann) a field guide and website dedicated to South Pacific architecture.
Will Thresher
Will Thresher formed Thresher Associates 1998 on the strength of his extensive urban design and landscape architectural experience in the UK. The practice has since developed a solid track record of completed projects in both commercial and public sectors continuing to widen its client base locally and internationally
All public projects involve consultation with private and public stakeholders and liaison with other consultants. The practice specialises in delivering design consultancy packages carefully tailored to clients' needs, aspirations and budgets. Workload is typically diverse with involvement on a broad range of tasks and project types. Will has been a member of the Urban Design Panel since 2004 and his role has been extended by participation in specially convened panels for key schemes.
Dr. Janine Randerson
Dr. Janine Randerson is the Programme Leader Master of Performance and Media Arts AUT. Janine is also a New Zealand-based media artist. A research thread in Janine’s work is the technological mediation in ecological systems with a particular focus on the environment. Randerson has collaborated with environmental scientists on residencies and projects with NIWA, BoM (Bureau of Meteorology) in Melbourne and NERI (National Environmental Research Institute) in Denmark. Her current projects situate media art in relation to water, weather and politics both locally (Other Waters: Art on the Manukau in Onehunga) as well as internationally.
Lauren White
Lauren White is a senior urban designer and senior associate at Harrison Grierson. She’s also on the staff of Auckland University, teaching in the Master of Urban Design programme. Lauren has over 15 years’ experience on a wide range of public and private sector projects in New Zealand and overseas. Her particular skills in design and conceptual thinking enable her to scope projects and contribute creatively at all stages of project development. Lauren’s experience ranges from architectural design, housing and master planning projects to large growth planning projects. She’s also experienced in development feasibility projects and public consultation. Lauren has a Bachelor of Architectural Studies and a Master of City Planning and Urban Design. She’s an associate of the MNZPI and a member of the Urban Design Forum
Dr Fleur Palmer
Dr Fleur Palmer Te Rarawa/Te Aupouri is an Architect, Spatial Activist and Senior Lecturer of Spatial Design in the Faculty of Design & Creative Technologies, Auckland University of Technology.
Dr Fleur Palmer's award winning Ph.D focused on the displacement of Māori communities through colonisation and is the first doctorate to investigate to implications of discriminatory practices on housing outcomes in Aotearoa. Through her innovative collaborative practice she supported the creation of an affordable housing project in Kaitaia for He Korowai Trust that also featured in a documentary on social housing directed by Briar March called A Place called Home. In her collaborative practices, she worked with 7 marae from the North Hokianga, and the Hawke family from Ngati Whatua to generate visualisations of future development to reflect the core social and the cultural values of these communities in support of self-determination.
Ken Davis
Ken is a registered architect with 31 years of experience in urban design, architecture, commercial interior design and product /street furniture design in Melbourne, Wellington and Auckland.
He has worked, principally in the private sector, with a diverse range of clients from property developers, property investors and property managers, government departments, city councils and large private sector institutions and has developed a range of skills and experience in the areas of strategic and conceptual design, client liaison, project coordination and management and communication and design management.
Ken is experienced in managing large teams of in-house and external building professional in a variety of complex award winning projects including railway stations, museums and libraries, office fitouts and multi-level housing developments
In addition, Ken is considered one of the country’s leading experts on the history of New Zealand’s State Housing projects of the mid-20th Century, through his influential undergraduate thesis “A Liberal State of Mind - The Architectural Work of F Gordon Wilson 1936-1959 - A Cultural Analysis” about F Gordon Wilson the first Principal Architect of the Department of Housing Construction from 1936 until his death in 1959 as Government Architect
Sunday 26 February 2017
Noho Marae, Umupuia, Maraetai March 14/14, 2017
Great oportunity for all MBP student to vist the Noho Marae, Umupuia, Maraetai
Programme for staff and students, Unitec
Tuesday 14 March 8.30am
Assemble at Building One, Unitec
with drink, lunch, bedding, toiletry and gear.
• Sign Health and Safety forms and get on bus.
9am Depart to Umupuia promptly
10.00 Arrive, collect gear and put in convenient place near entry
10.10ish Karanga and start of powhiri Enter marae if wet, or outside more probably
Whaikorero Alan Titchener,
Waiata Ko Wairaka tenei (3 verses) and hongi/haruru.
11.00 Cup of tea in wharakai
11.30 Whare tupuna for briefing about marae and Ngai Tai, and protocols of the marae James Brown if available; or immediately to whakawhenaungatanga
12.00 Whakawhenuangatanga.. Introduction for all All
1.00 Briefing in groups outside on the lawn over lunch: Lecturers
2.00 Break out sessions for Year 3, and year 1 Interior Design, and walk to Regional Park for Year 1 and Masters Or work with staff.
4.00 Return and get together for review of day and key issues and learning
4.30 Swim/relax
6.00 Dinner: Spit Roast
7pm Presentations in whare kai: to be discussed
8.30 Marae and further talk: the role of culture and design inspiration J
Wednesday 15 March
7.30 Karakia and Breakfast
8.30 Tidy up.. All bags assembled
9.00 Break out session for some groups. Botany visit to bush area or further work with staff.
10.15 Assemble and review of learnings.
10. 45am Poroporoake
11.00 and Depart for Unitec.
Any question to Diane Menzies drdhmenzies@ark.co.nz
Welcome !!
Jan Brueghel the Elder (Brussels 1568-Antwerp 1625) - The Garden of Eden
A warm welcome to the new students joining the Master by Project programme in 2017 and welcome back to all our existing researchers. We have a busy year with a large number of students examining in June. Good Luck!!
Our Workshop Calendar looks like this at the moment.
Workshop 1 6-7 April
Workshop 2 29-30 June
Workshop 3 31 August 1 September
Workshop 4 9-10 November
For the new student we have a number of compulsory seminars before your candidature presentation.
7 March How to write a research proposal
14 -15 March Visit to Noho Marae, Umupuia, Maraetai.
20-22 March GIS Workshop
28 March Landscape Theory
4th April Polishing your proposal
6-7 April Candidature Workshop
2017 Handbook
The 2017 Master by Project Handbook can be found here MBP HANDBOOK .You will find all the information that you will require for successfully navigating the programme
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