Morning sunlight enters the double height hall through a tall slot marking time as it moves across the wall.
Given difficulty of access we decided on lightweight timber prefabricated construction.
We need healthy, walkable, connected urban villages to enable people to live in healthy mixed use neighbourhoods.
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’.
The building becomes sensitive, contextual and iconic, and we strike a balance between economy and identity.
…to address the rigours of the open market with high ambitions but still robust enough to entice developers.
Our design proposed to reconnect the city to the water…
What should Oldham be like in 20 years from now?
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.
This development is a benchmark project in Auckland. It seeks to introduce medium density housing as a means to attract people back to the city.
Our ambition has been to resolve multiple problematics in one conceptual move…
‘colonisation’ of the ground into a lively street
… traditional row housing as a starting point proved insufficient to meet this challenge.
… the project becoming a national pilot scheme for sustainable urban renewal.
The section is shaped by the need to minimise wind resistance externally. Internally walls and roofs are angled to maximise sun, view and privacy.