Wednesday 4 April 2018
Critics CV
Juan Molina
Juan Molina is a senior architect and urban designer at CPRW Fisher. Juan is a graduate of the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona and a Spanish Registered Architect, member of the Collegi Oficial d’Arquitectes de Catalunya. Juan was taught by luminaries, Enric Miralles and Ignasi de Solà-Morales and worked with Viaplana and Pinon on the early days of the ‘Plazas duras’ in Barcelona. He has over 20 years of experience as a practicing architect in New Zealand and Spain, projects include the master planning of Britomart with Cheshire Architects and designing a NZIA award winning projects with CPRW Fisher.
Megan Rule
Megan Rule graduated with honours from the Auckland School of Architecture in 1992 and worked on award winning projects, including Axis Building, D72 (Commercial Refits) and St Helier Residence with Auckland practice Patterson Co Partners until 1998. Prior to completing her degree she traveled extensively while based in the UK working for large commercial practice RHWL. In 1995 Megan participated in an international summer school based out of Macerata (Marche region) and Rome, Italy. From 1998 an extended break from the industry evolved into establishing an independent practice, South Pacific Architecture in 2000, with an expanding interest in the investigation of spatial and material context to produce environmentally sensitive enduring architecture.
Guest Lecturer Auckland University School of Architecture 2003, 2004, 2005.
Member of the NZIA NZ Awards Jury 2005, 2006
David Mead
David is a Director with Hill Young Cooper Ltd, a resource management, environmental policy and planning consultancy with offices in Auckland and Wellington. David has over 25 years experience in resource management policy.
David provides advice on a wide range of RMA-related projects to public and private sector clients. He has provided expert evidence to the Environment Court on urban growth issues and urban design. He regularly undertakes assignments considering future demands for housing, business, transport and social infrastructure and the interactions between these factors. This often involves participation in, and leading workshops, public engagement exercises and design workshops.
David has helped to prepare numerous plan changes relating to new urban developments, car parking, affordable housing, stormwater management, urban design and crime prevention through environmental design. This has involved preparation of strategies and action plans, development of RMA plan provisions, consideration of alternatives, submission analysis, Section 42a reporting and negotiation and mediation post council level hearings.
David acts an Independent Hearing Commissioner and has considered plan changes, resource consents and notices of requirements.
David is a Chair of one of Auckland City’s Urban Design Panels. He has facilitated many professional and community workshops on the New Zealand Urban Design Protocol, urban design frameworks for town centres and structure planning exercises. He co-authored for the Ministry of the Environment, the People + Places + Spaces guideline on urban design.
Prior to joining Hill Young Cooper, David was a member of the strategic projects team at Waitakere City. This team was responsible for developing and implementing a range of integrated sustainable development / Agenda 21 projects, including urban growth, transport and open space strategies, green network, sustainable building methods and community planning initiatives. David was a member of the core team that prepared the current Waitakere District Plan
Richard Goldie
Richard is a Registered Architect, Director at Peddle Thorp. He also teaches at Auckland University, and is running an internship programme at our office with Unitec students. Richard is involved in the NZIA and sit on the Urban Design Panel and the Property Council.
Richard joined Peddle Thorp in 1997, becoming a Director in 2000. He has undertaken projects in Auckland city and throughout regional New Zealand, and they range from private housing and retail interiors to large scale commercial high rise. Many have received Professional and Industry awards.
His aim is to continue a developing mastery of architectural technology-craft as a working palette for the production of carefully scaled, authentic, enduring buildings.
Richard is widely involved in the Architectural community and served as an Associate Professor at Auckland University School of Architecture, on a number of NZIA AVP and VP panels, Chairman of the NZIA Auckland Branch, and has written Practice Notes on commercial practice areas. He is currently the Chair of the CIC Guidelines 2015 Review Committee.
George Woolford
George has progressed from senior landscape architect to a team leader of the Auckland Design Practice – something that reflects the opportunities that Beca provides and his passion for generating positive change.
Since starting in 2015, George has felt a real sense of ownership in the direction of the Design Practice. Being part of strategy sessions and huis gives the team visibility across the business. The culture isn’t typical of a multi-disciplinary consultancy – the projects are diverse and exciting, and the studio environment allows creativity to flourish.
The key thing for George is how we work together - graduates and technical leaders across numerous disciplines and geographical locations sharing their smarts to deliver creative solutions. We’re big on integrating innovative design solutions into our projects, and working collaboratively with clients and the community.
He has a personal interest in sustainability and green infrastructure, and enjoys working for a company that empowers him to help drive and embed these initiatives in his work.
Cheering him on from the side-lines is his family. With twin girls and an interest in rugby to keep him busy outside of work, he’s grateful for the flexibility his career provides and the opportunities that lie ahead.
Tuesday 3 April 2018
Student Abstracts
Teng Sun
Sponge City
Abstract
Under the expansion urbanization and climate change, many cities are suffering flood disaster nowadays. The conception of sponge city has shown up in recent years, it aims to build the whole city on a sponge to keep absorbing rainwater to slow or even stop the flood. To resolving flooding problems, this research focus on how to retain flood through sponge city as a landscape architecture design to reduce urban damage. Base on the temperate marine climate and irregular terrain in Auckland, I’m going to design a sponge city project in New Lynn area which is analyzed by GeoMaps data. Through the data collected, it is easy to find the places where have current flood issues or potential problems, then use landscape technique to design park, wetland, ponds to absorb flood in different water branch. There are number of cases around the world, which aims use flood and terrain to redesign and create different functions and landscape. This research includes the data integration solutions in Auckland, and show the evaluated effects.
Meng Zhang
Low-impact, climate-resilience urban design: renew inner city’s harbour
Abstract
The challenges of managing stormwater run-off, which partly caused by climate change, have always been receiving highly attentions from all around world. However, due to stormwater been discharged into the harbours, which undoubtedly not only causes seawater contamination, also increased risk of people’s illness and intensify marine species’ loss. In this stage, it is most important to purify the rain flow before it run into sea.
My personal research will explore how to develop a design project which mainly focus on effectively keeping catchment water being clearer in order to prevent harbour environment. At first, I attempt to entirely analyse what design approaches, based on the framework of low impact urban design, also climate-resilience theory, may act on both mitigating catchment contamination and controlling over-flooding. Then, to consult with the previous project, I intend to choose a several coastal cities which also suffer from similar stormwater issues, and find what design approaches they used and whether they can effectively work. Finally, my expectation of this research is to address the Cox Creek catchment’s pollution to maintain and return Cox’s Bay being animated and recreational.
Mengyi Wang
The sustainable garden
Abstract
Accompany with the innovation of the modern garden style, both the consumers and the designers tend to give focus on the aesthetics rather than the sustainability. As a environmentally conscious country, people who have private gardens in New Zealand actually do not take care of sustainability. As a result, the cases have caused the waste of resources. This research creates utopian sustainable gardens which are changed the layout, plants and water system to make the gardens more resilient. The garden will be chosen from local Auckland’s sites and they are typical private gardens. The scale of the gardens are from the big to the small, separately analysed and designed.
Zoë Jane Avery
Living Urbanism: designing living roofs to maximise benefits for the built environment, humans and nature
Abstract
This research aims to outline the relevance and benefits of living roofs on urban developments, and explores the factors and constraints that restrain increasing living roofs in New Zealand. Although living roofs are becoming increasingly common in cities throughout the world for their ability to improve climate change adaptation, energy conservation, food production and our ability to develop more sustainable and environmentally friendly living environments, their presence and application as part of landscape and urban design interventions in New Zealand is still comparatively rare or simply relying on particular interests of specific groups, people or landscape architects, architects and urban designers. This is becoming more relevant in the light of increasing needs to pursue green infrastructure solutions, and pressing issues related to rapid population growth, advanced stages of urbanisation often described as instances of urban sprawl, and alteration of natural environments defined by increments of hard surfaces, pollution and lack of contact with nature. In this vein, it will help to explore how we can incorporate green infrastructure design solutions into urban developments to maximize benefits for the built environment, nature and people.
Currently, living roofs are rarely included in developments in New Zealand and if they are, most are being designed in isolation, resulting in living roofs which are disconnected, inaccessible, monocultures, not robust, poorly designed, ineffective or inappropriate for the location. The aim of this research is to select key living roofs in New Zealand and critically analyse their design characteristics, to then - through interviews with the architects, landscape architects and designers - disclose the factors that explain why living roofs are not being included on developments in New Zealand. Findings highlight the design problems with existing living roofs and obstacles for incorporating them into new developments including lack of knowledge and education; increased cost of development; and perceved risk. This research suggests that without encouragement and education it is unlikely that living roofs will be commonplace throughout New Zealand.
The intention of this project is to aim for an improved urban landscape with maximised multi-functional benefits through the use of a living roof design manual for Whangarei on the proposed Art Centre in Whangarei Town Basin, Northland as the project location. Using the proposed Hundertwasser Art Centre with Wairau Māori Art Gallery as a central landmark building, the living roof manual will inform a design response to help reveal the potential living roofs present to improve our urban landscapes and our lives. Fundamentally, the aim of this research is to develop a guide that will assist with the design of living roofs within our cities to help create spaces where we can have respite from the busyness of city dweller life and connect in with nature and beauty.
Jie Zhang
The Bioregional Park : Commemorating the visit of Captain Cook
Abstract
Up until relatively recently, the majority of people were not very concerned about the relationship between human actions and human impact on the environment. This phenomenon has consequently resulted in over-consumption 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 thesis will present a concept of bioregional ideal. Using this concept, it will help to change people's ideas about the human relationship to the environment and natural resources from the current condition. This research will use a bioregional park design for Mercury Bay in the Coromandel to show how an environment can be improved, protect the natural resources, connect people to nature and make a habitat for ecosystems of plants and animals. At the same time, this project other aim is that to celebrate and commemorate the 250th anniversary of captain James Cook's first voyage (1769) to New Zealand. Mention commemorating capt. Cook.
Kael Li
Research question: How to make inaccessible coastal space more available to the public?
Rationale: Coast plays a crucial role to most people who live in coastal cities. However, there are often many limitations for the public to get access to beach and coastline, including rough condition of geography, natural limitation, private possession, and the key issue in my research, which is the construction of motorway. Similar as many countries, New Zealand has this issue in many places. Some of the coastal areas are even under natural risks.
Theory: Focus on providing available coastal space with more connection and protecting function, whiling balancing the ecological perspective and coastal development.
Methods: From case studies, there are already many different methods for several types of sites. For example, beach nourishment is a complex but ideal method to create more coastal area; by creating bridge, boardwalk there will be more connection between community and coastline.
Personally, I will focus on Shoal Bay, in Auckland, which locates near city center and has a good potential to become a ideal urban waterfront coastal park. After analyzing different perspectives including transport, natural situation, historic and ecological aspects, I will try to provide my own design concept, which is mainly an artificial coastal park in the existing but limited coastal area. The new park concentrates on four perspectives: availability, protection, connection and ecological.
Yuan Zhang
Urban ecology and the design of a green infrastructure network based on catchments for Auckland, New Zealand ----- The Oakley creek catchment case study
Abstract
This project outlines an urban spatial model that connects current best practice low-impact stormwater management design, as is already in use in Auckland, with a new green infrastructure network (GIN) model and stormwater catchment control model for Auckland. The model links urban creek catchments and urban ecologies with social and economic benefits through the design of the local area network (LAN).
The Oakley Creek catchment is used as the case study to show the details and functions of green infrastructure network and the local area network inside of it. Through classifying Oakley Creek catchment into four scales: 1. urban creek scale;
2. community scale ;
3. neighbourhood scale;
4. block scale
to manage the catchment as a “nested” way, using stormwater management devices in it to purify, store and reuse stormwater in order to decrease the risk of flooding and stormwater pollution problems, release the pressure of the stormwater drainage system when it comes to the heavy rain, as well as to bring multiple benefits like ecological, social and even economic benefits to local community through the design of the local area network and the shared infrastructure inside of it. The new GIN and LAN model shows the interrelated character of ecological, economic and social conditions in local community design.
Irawan Chandra Arief
Onehunga waterfront Project
Abstract
This project is about how people can have access to the waterfront. In the presence of two existing projects, Taumanu reserve and Onehunga port leave space between those two projects. providing an opportunity to create a space that may be integrated with each other. And the space for the community enjoys the potential of the waterfront
Another uniqueness of this site, Onehunga. Is a wealth of history and potential development for the city of Auckland in the future. A long time ago, Onehunga is a canoe ship crossing from Manukau inlet to Tamaki and even Coromandel. Meanwhile, the east-west link connection plan and Onehunga waterfront development will be an option for future development.
Researchers from literature studies, history, and articles from various newspapers on related topics serve as a reference for further research. Investigation of various designs is done, which then analyzed what the potential and obstacles.
From various designs then came a better design potential, based on some workshops that have been passed, supervise, and input from related parties. A fish market can be an option for Onehunga and surrounding communities in the future.
Andrea Murray
A Commemorative Landscape in the Christchurch Residential Red Zone
Abstract
A landscape honoring displaced people
The Red Zone, known as the RRZ, feels like an empty and transitioning place. The earthquakes in Canterbury have finally exposed, what geologist have always known, Christchurch city was cited on flood prone swamp land.
The RRZ covers 400 hectares, where the roads are beyond repair, the power poles are on a lean and decommissioned, yet the grass is mown. What can the city do with this serpentine shaped quilt of 6000 individual gardens? How can this landscape be used in a way that is honest and meaningful to the people who once called it home? 10,000 people lost their sense of place when they abandoned their homes and accepted the Crown Offer. Before this massive earthquake displacement, the Maori tribe, Nga Tahu left the land where they once gathered food, when the river catchment became polluted with settler’s waste water.
Many memorials use walls, or monuments, very prescriptive designs to communicate what needs to be conveyed to visitors. A commemorative landscape in the Avonside Loop can be a non-prescriptive way to tell the story about the Christchurch Earthquakes and those families who lost their homes.
Sponge City
Abstract
Under the expansion urbanization and climate change, many cities are suffering flood disaster nowadays. The conception of sponge city has shown up in recent years, it aims to build the whole city on a sponge to keep absorbing rainwater to slow or even stop the flood. To resolving flooding problems, this research focus on how to retain flood through sponge city as a landscape architecture design to reduce urban damage. Base on the temperate marine climate and irregular terrain in Auckland, I’m going to design a sponge city project in New Lynn area which is analyzed by GeoMaps data. Through the data collected, it is easy to find the places where have current flood issues or potential problems, then use landscape technique to design park, wetland, ponds to absorb flood in different water branch. There are number of cases around the world, which aims use flood and terrain to redesign and create different functions and landscape. This research includes the data integration solutions in Auckland, and show the evaluated effects.
Meng Zhang
Low-impact, climate-resilience urban design: renew inner city’s harbour
Abstract
The challenges of managing stormwater run-off, which partly caused by climate change, have always been receiving highly attentions from all around world. However, due to stormwater been discharged into the harbours, which undoubtedly not only causes seawater contamination, also increased risk of people’s illness and intensify marine species’ loss. In this stage, it is most important to purify the rain flow before it run into sea.
My personal research will explore how to develop a design project which mainly focus on effectively keeping catchment water being clearer in order to prevent harbour environment. At first, I attempt to entirely analyse what design approaches, based on the framework of low impact urban design, also climate-resilience theory, may act on both mitigating catchment contamination and controlling over-flooding. Then, to consult with the previous project, I intend to choose a several coastal cities which also suffer from similar stormwater issues, and find what design approaches they used and whether they can effectively work. Finally, my expectation of this research is to address the Cox Creek catchment’s pollution to maintain and return Cox’s Bay being animated and recreational.
Mengyi Wang
The sustainable garden
Abstract
Accompany with the innovation of the modern garden style, both the consumers and the designers tend to give focus on the aesthetics rather than the sustainability. As a environmentally conscious country, people who have private gardens in New Zealand actually do not take care of sustainability. As a result, the cases have caused the waste of resources. This research creates utopian sustainable gardens which are changed the layout, plants and water system to make the gardens more resilient. The garden will be chosen from local Auckland’s sites and they are typical private gardens. The scale of the gardens are from the big to the small, separately analysed and designed.
Zoë Jane Avery
Living Urbanism: designing living roofs to maximise benefits for the built environment, humans and nature
Abstract
This research aims to outline the relevance and benefits of living roofs on urban developments, and explores the factors and constraints that restrain increasing living roofs in New Zealand. Although living roofs are becoming increasingly common in cities throughout the world for their ability to improve climate change adaptation, energy conservation, food production and our ability to develop more sustainable and environmentally friendly living environments, their presence and application as part of landscape and urban design interventions in New Zealand is still comparatively rare or simply relying on particular interests of specific groups, people or landscape architects, architects and urban designers. This is becoming more relevant in the light of increasing needs to pursue green infrastructure solutions, and pressing issues related to rapid population growth, advanced stages of urbanisation often described as instances of urban sprawl, and alteration of natural environments defined by increments of hard surfaces, pollution and lack of contact with nature. In this vein, it will help to explore how we can incorporate green infrastructure design solutions into urban developments to maximize benefits for the built environment, nature and people.
Currently, living roofs are rarely included in developments in New Zealand and if they are, most are being designed in isolation, resulting in living roofs which are disconnected, inaccessible, monocultures, not robust, poorly designed, ineffective or inappropriate for the location. The aim of this research is to select key living roofs in New Zealand and critically analyse their design characteristics, to then - through interviews with the architects, landscape architects and designers - disclose the factors that explain why living roofs are not being included on developments in New Zealand. Findings highlight the design problems with existing living roofs and obstacles for incorporating them into new developments including lack of knowledge and education; increased cost of development; and perceved risk. This research suggests that without encouragement and education it is unlikely that living roofs will be commonplace throughout New Zealand.
The intention of this project is to aim for an improved urban landscape with maximised multi-functional benefits through the use of a living roof design manual for Whangarei on the proposed Art Centre in Whangarei Town Basin, Northland as the project location. Using the proposed Hundertwasser Art Centre with Wairau Māori Art Gallery as a central landmark building, the living roof manual will inform a design response to help reveal the potential living roofs present to improve our urban landscapes and our lives. Fundamentally, the aim of this research is to develop a guide that will assist with the design of living roofs within our cities to help create spaces where we can have respite from the busyness of city dweller life and connect in with nature and beauty.
Jie Zhang
The Bioregional Park : Commemorating the visit of Captain Cook
Abstract
Up until relatively recently, the majority of people were not very concerned about the relationship between human actions and human impact on the environment. This phenomenon has consequently resulted in over-consumption 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 thesis will present a concept of bioregional ideal. Using this concept, it will help to change people's ideas about the human relationship to the environment and natural resources from the current condition. This research will use a bioregional park design for Mercury Bay in the Coromandel to show how an environment can be improved, protect the natural resources, connect people to nature and make a habitat for ecosystems of plants and animals. At the same time, this project other aim is that to celebrate and commemorate the 250th anniversary of captain James Cook's first voyage (1769) to New Zealand. Mention commemorating capt. Cook.
Kael Li
Research question: How to make inaccessible coastal space more available to the public?
Rationale: Coast plays a crucial role to most people who live in coastal cities. However, there are often many limitations for the public to get access to beach and coastline, including rough condition of geography, natural limitation, private possession, and the key issue in my research, which is the construction of motorway. Similar as many countries, New Zealand has this issue in many places. Some of the coastal areas are even under natural risks.
Theory: Focus on providing available coastal space with more connection and protecting function, whiling balancing the ecological perspective and coastal development.
Methods: From case studies, there are already many different methods for several types of sites. For example, beach nourishment is a complex but ideal method to create more coastal area; by creating bridge, boardwalk there will be more connection between community and coastline.
Personally, I will focus on Shoal Bay, in Auckland, which locates near city center and has a good potential to become a ideal urban waterfront coastal park. After analyzing different perspectives including transport, natural situation, historic and ecological aspects, I will try to provide my own design concept, which is mainly an artificial coastal park in the existing but limited coastal area. The new park concentrates on four perspectives: availability, protection, connection and ecological.
Yuan Zhang
Urban ecology and the design of a green infrastructure network based on catchments for Auckland, New Zealand ----- The Oakley creek catchment case study
Abstract
This project outlines an urban spatial model that connects current best practice low-impact stormwater management design, as is already in use in Auckland, with a new green infrastructure network (GIN) model and stormwater catchment control model for Auckland. The model links urban creek catchments and urban ecologies with social and economic benefits through the design of the local area network (LAN).
The Oakley Creek catchment is used as the case study to show the details and functions of green infrastructure network and the local area network inside of it. Through classifying Oakley Creek catchment into four scales: 1. urban creek scale;
2. community scale ;
3. neighbourhood scale;
4. block scale
to manage the catchment as a “nested” way, using stormwater management devices in it to purify, store and reuse stormwater in order to decrease the risk of flooding and stormwater pollution problems, release the pressure of the stormwater drainage system when it comes to the heavy rain, as well as to bring multiple benefits like ecological, social and even economic benefits to local community through the design of the local area network and the shared infrastructure inside of it. The new GIN and LAN model shows the interrelated character of ecological, economic and social conditions in local community design.
Irawan Chandra Arief
Onehunga waterfront Project
Abstract
This project is about how people can have access to the waterfront. In the presence of two existing projects, Taumanu reserve and Onehunga port leave space between those two projects. providing an opportunity to create a space that may be integrated with each other. And the space for the community enjoys the potential of the waterfront
Another uniqueness of this site, Onehunga. Is a wealth of history and potential development for the city of Auckland in the future. A long time ago, Onehunga is a canoe ship crossing from Manukau inlet to Tamaki and even Coromandel. Meanwhile, the east-west link connection plan and Onehunga waterfront development will be an option for future development.
Researchers from literature studies, history, and articles from various newspapers on related topics serve as a reference for further research. Investigation of various designs is done, which then analyzed what the potential and obstacles.
From various designs then came a better design potential, based on some workshops that have been passed, supervise, and input from related parties. A fish market can be an option for Onehunga and surrounding communities in the future.
Andrea Murray
A Commemorative Landscape in the Christchurch Residential Red Zone
Abstract
A landscape honoring displaced people
The Red Zone, known as the RRZ, feels like an empty and transitioning place. The earthquakes in Canterbury have finally exposed, what geologist have always known, Christchurch city was cited on flood prone swamp land.
The RRZ covers 400 hectares, where the roads are beyond repair, the power poles are on a lean and decommissioned, yet the grass is mown. What can the city do with this serpentine shaped quilt of 6000 individual gardens? How can this landscape be used in a way that is honest and meaningful to the people who once called it home? 10,000 people lost their sense of place when they abandoned their homes and accepted the Crown Offer. Before this massive earthquake displacement, the Maori tribe, Nga Tahu left the land where they once gathered food, when the river catchment became polluted with settler’s waste water.
Many memorials use walls, or monuments, very prescriptive designs to communicate what needs to be conveyed to visitors. A commemorative landscape in the Avonside Loop can be a non-prescriptive way to tell the story about the Christchurch Earthquakes and those families who lost their homes.
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