The impact of commercial architecture can be seen in any major city center, where almost all the buildings are commercial. Architecture is the designing and building of structures designed to provide protection from the elements. The simplest structural requirements are easily satisfied by building a shelter, but an architect’s job is to combine good design elements into a building that meets both current and future needs.
Research revealed highly efficient geometries in repeated assemblies and colonies.
The Parumoana Arcade & Market Hall creates a new place on the waterfront for people to enjoy, a new symbol linking the sea to the city.
Wave structures, crustacean or shell architectures reveal highly efficient geometric rhythmic structures.
The design is intended to encourage discovery and help children to “see” and directly engage with environmental processes.
The design wraps like twisting flax seed-pods around a central courtyard garden.
These liquid flows are shaped into conceptual layers or strata.
It creates connection, destination, attraction, landscape, activity, diversity, health and transformation.
… 225 hectares of docklands will be transformed into places where people can live, work and be ‘next to the sea’.
…to address the rigours of the open market with high ambitions but still robust enough to entice developers.
The strength and success of any traditional city, town or village has a direct relation with the success of its public space.
A key challenge in inner city living is how one can provide the necessary amenity spaces for large families within a secure domestic setting.
Our ambition has been to resolve multiple problematics in one conceptual move…
… the project becoming a national pilot scheme for sustainable urban renewal.