Record of Architecture Designs - The University of Auckland by Matthew Filan Cao

Project Information Name:

BAS & MArch(Prof)

Year:

2014-2018

Location:

Auckland, New Zealand

Institution:

The University of Auckland

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Scales

Year:

2014, Semester One

Location:

Auckland, New Zealand

Institution:

The University of Auckland

Supervisors:

Dr Emilio José García Dr André Santos Nouri Angela Yoo

Dr Emilio José García

Dr André Santos Nouri

Angela Yoo

SCALES

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This design paper exercises students’ skill of designing in different scales and team works. Students will design in the following hierarchy: A personal space – The Light House A functional space – The Sandwich Bathroom A house – The Geo House A mixed-use building – The DNA A complex – The Complex Merge two complex designs into a neighborhood – The Tetris Complex Merge the whole group of complex designs into a civil scale of urban development – The Peninsula Learning from the design course: Communication and leadership are crucial to a successful teamwork Besides the design itself, there are other aspects in an architectural design process such as, the urban planning in a city scale/population density in a neighborhood scale/development budget in a project scale/the comfort and dwellers’ financial status in a human scale.

The Light House

The Sandwich Bathroom

The Geo House

This is a design dedicated for one person with one bedroom on the second level and a central light well filled with water. The ground level is mostly occupied by grass and the exterior paint has a fluorescent effect at night.

This is a bathroom design in playful and wild imagination, with one stair leading to a bath on a semi-upper level, one basin on the middle level, one toilet and one washing area on the basement level. It is named the sandwich bathroom.

This geo-house is also dedicated for one person living with a large rectangular living area on the ground level and one cubical bedroom positioned diagonally to the ground level parameter on the second level.

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Stage Six

Stage Seven

The DNA

The Complex

The Tetris Complex

This mixed-use building is consisted of one three level retail building in the middle and four wing buildings hosting 40 apartments on the side. There are rooftop gardens and pocket courtyard integrated to serve the inhabitants.

In this complex, the residential area is separated with the commercial area. The residential area is consisted of 9 twisted apartment towers and two commercial buildings connected by a glazing tunnel above a proposed road.

In the merged complex, both residential towers are located on the opposite sides with commercial buildings in the center connected by a bridge. The two sides of the development is also connected by a large public green landscape area.

This is “the peninsula” neighborhood with 480 apartments located on all four sides of the site. There are five retails areas with functional facilities, a vast park-land in the central and pocket-landscapes scattered aroun the sea front.

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Project Information Name:

Cyborg

Year:

2014, Semester One

Location:

Auckland, New Zealand

Institution:

The University of Auckland

Supervisors:

Judy Cockeram William Brooks Herman Haringa

Judy Cockeram

William Brooks

Herman Haringa

CYBORG DESIGN PROCESS In this design paper the students are firstly asked to produce a 3d mesh model of themselves posing in a selected position through “123 catch”. Based on this 3d model, the students are asked to design a cyborg creature and identify a skill, fit for this cyborg. After defining the cyborg, the students are to create a natural habitat/home for this cyborg. DESIGN CONCEPT The narrative of my cyborg is that he got infected by a cyborg “virus” that allows him to control the growth of his bone structure freely. The unique skill of this cyborg is “Kungfu”.

“It is evident that home is not an object, a building, but a diffuse and complex condition that integrates memories and images, desires and fears, the past and the present. A home is also a set of rituals, personal rhythms and routines of everyday life”

- PALLASMAA The natural habitat I design for my cyborg is influenced by three key words “virus”, “Bone” and “Kungfu”. All columns are in bone-like structure erecting from the ground and virus shaped spaces are skewered through the “Bones”. Together, they combined into a tree house-like cluster forming the natural region of the “Kungfu” cyborg. “HARD TO ENTER, HARD TO EXIT” No stairs are provided in this cluster, only platforms placing on various height as a mean for the “Kungfu” cyborg to access his spaces. Obstacle objects are placed in front of all entrances only allows a minimal clearance for the ‘kungfu” cyborg to pass through. This creates an atmosphere, that the cyborg couldn’t be fully relaxed in, for he needs to always keep a maximum level of awareness of his surroundings.

“Perceptual sapce was created through purely visual forms, creating unexpected transportations. “

- HEALY

“The experience of home is never stronger than when seeing the windows of the house lit in the dark winter landscape and sensing the invitation of warmth warming your frozen limbs”

- PALLASMAA

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Vā

Year:

2014, Semester One

Location:

Auckland, New Zealand

Institution:

The University of Auckland

Supervisors:

Lama Tone Rameka Alexander-Tu’inukuafe Jordan leota

Lama Tone

Rameka Alexander-Tu’inukuafe

Jordan leota

VA Having a brief understanding of what Va means, the students are asked to produce an initial image that illustrates one self ’s relationship with a specific aspect of his/her life. The idea behind the initial image I drawn, is that at this particular time of my life, everything seems quite chaotic. I was in an unfamiliar foreign country, and I was at my first year in the architecture degree study. I felt I constantly didn’t understand what I heard and what I saw. I also felt short in strength trying to express my visions verbally and visually. To illustrate the notion of my unmatched skills visually and verbally, I have put a tongue in the shape of an eye and an eyeball in the shape of a mouth. I have then covered a plastic cup with layers of different colour wax to represent the chaotic mixed feelings I had with myself at that time.

Wax model

Final plan

Final model

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Materials

Year:

2014, Semester One

Location:

Auckland, New Zealand

Institution:

The University of Auckland

Supervisors:

Rachel Carley Natalee Tan Yee Wei Zee Shake Lee

Rachel Carley

Natalee Tan Yee Wei

Zee Shake Lee

MATERIALS DESIGN PROCESS

FIVE DESIGN PRECEDENTS

THREE SPATIAL EFFECTS

In this design paper, the students were asked to analysis five spatial precedents and study the technique used in those spaces to create certain atmosphere. The students were then asked to create similar spatial effects with their selected materials. From which, the students need to conclude three key effects and design spaces inspired by them.

Contemporary Jewish Museum - Daniel Libeskind, 2008 Half Mirror Room - Carsten Holler, 2008 Reichstag dome - Norman Foster, 1894 Infinity Mirrored Room - The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away – Yayoi Kusama, 2013 Ribera Serrallo Sports Complex - Álvaro Siza Vieira, 2005

Fragmentation of Light

Space precedences

Material photos

Infinite Mirroring Faceted Surfaces

Material quality drawing

Space design through material

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Project Information Name:

Origami

Year:

2014, Semester One

Location:

Auckland, New Zealand

Institution:

The University of Auckland

Supervisors:

Dr Andrew Barrie Zee Shake Lee Dian Tang

Dr Andrew Barrie

Zee Shake Lee

Dian Tang

PAPER MODEL DESIGN CONCEPT “We wish each other a long life so as to share the beauty of this graceful moonlight, even though miles apart.” This design takes inspiration from a Chinese traditional festival - the moon festival where family will come together, eat moon cakes and enjoy the beauty of full moon. The plan of this design takes the Yin & Yang shape reflecting the philosophy of “People have sorrow and joy; they part and meet again and again. The moon dims or shines; it waxes and wanes again and again” which is also a line from a famous poem describing the Moon festival. POEM How long will the full moon appear? Wine cup in hand, I ask the sky. I do not know what time of the year ’Twould be tonight in the palace on high. Riding the wind, there I would fly, Yet I’m afraid the crystalline palace would be too high and cold for me. I rise and dance, with my shadow I play. On high as on earth, would it be as gay? The moon goes round the mansions red through gauzedraped window soft to shed her light upon the sleepless bed. Why then when people part, is the oft full and bright? Men have sorrow and joy; they part or meet again; the moon is bright or dim and she may wax or wane. There has been nothing perfect since the olden days. So let us wish that man will live long as he can! Though miles apart, we’ll share the beauty she displays.

Old house living room drawing

Moon cake drawings

Paper model exercises

Proposed design site plan

Proposed design plan

Proposed design section

Proposed design paper model

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Project Information Name:

Downtown Q

Year:

2014, Semester Two

Location:

Auckland, New Zealand

Institution:

The University of Auckland

Supervisors:

Dr Emilio José García Harriet Piki Mildon-King

Dr Emilio José García

Harriet Piki Mildon-King

DOWNTOWN Q DOWNTOWN Q WILL BE: • A regional centre with an Australian country town character • A place where old customs are as much a part of life as of memory • A place where the future is inspired by a town culture • A place full of energy and opportunity in business and industry • A place of many complexions • The community meeting place and social heartland of Queanbeyan • The public face of Queanbeyan • A major regional tourist destination • A place anchored in the rural landscape and aesthetic DESIGN IDEAS FOR DOWNTOWN Q WILL INTERPRET AND ILLUSTRATE: • the aspirations for Downtown Q • the character and potential of an Australian country town in the 21st century • the gateways to mainstreet • Monaro Street as the mainstreet of Downtown Q with an emphasis on the public realm, streetscape character and facades • the potential and quality of the Development Quarters with an emphasis on the public realm, vistas and connections, landmarks as well as building envelopes • a meaningful relationship between downtown and the riverside • arcades and laneways as stimulating pedestrian connectors • an identifiable seasonal character and a distinctive night time quality • public transport and parking as an active part of the ‘look and feel’ of downtown • How Downtown Q can be reinvigorated as a benchmark regional city.

Proposed design site plan

Proposed urban design site section

Proposed urban plan diagrams

Proposed art gallery sections

Proposed urban space water collecting diagram

Proposed urban space perspective

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Project Information Name:

Iberia Exchange Campo de Santa Clara - Alfama

Year:

2015, Semester One

Location:

Auckland, New Zealand Lisboa, Portugal

Institution:

The University of Auckland Universidade Autónoma, Polo de Arquitetura

Supervisors:

Michael Milojevic Stacy Vallis Alexander Sacha Milojevic Nathan Swaney Dr Sarosh Mulla

Michael Milojevic

Stacy Vallis

Alexander Sacha Milojevic

Nathan Swaney

Dr Sarosh Mulla

IBERIA TOPIC OUTLINE * THE PROPOSED 015 STUDIO IBERIA IS TO BE OFFERED AS SEPARATE SECOND, THIRD AND FOURTH YEAR DESIGN STUDIOS AND COULD ALSO BE A PROGRAM FOR ESPECIALLY APPROVED THESIS STUDENTS FOR WHOM THIS STUDIES ABROAD PROGRAM WOULD GIVE PARTICULAR VALUABLE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE. BUT INDEED FOR ALL UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND ARCHITECTURE STUDENT PARTICIPANTS THE PROGRAM IS INTENDED TO OFFER INDEPTH SPECIALIST DESIGN TEACHING AS WELL AS FOCUSSED HISTORY, THEORY AND CRITICISM TEACHING IN THE AREAS OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN, URBAN DESIGN, BUILDING REGENERATION AND THE DESIGN OF DENSE LOW RISE HOUSING. * THE PROGRAM WOULD BE RUN AS THREE PARALLEL DESIGN STUDIO GROUPS EACH WITH A SPECIFIC TOPIC AND SITE WHICH WOULD RELATE DIRECTLY TO THE GENERAL TOPIC GUIDELINES OF THAT STUDIO LEVEL [IE. DESIGN 3, DESIGN 5 AND ADVANCED DESIGN 1] OR THE THESIS STUDENTS’ RESEARCH TOPIC. * A KEY FACET OF THE PROGRAM WOULD FOCUS ON SITE VISITS AND FOCUS ON THE EXCEPTIONAL IBERIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE TYPOLOGIES OF RESIDENTIAL [D3], COLLECTED/COLLECTIONS [D5], AND NATURE AND CLIMATE [AD1]. * EACH TOPIC AND GROUP WOULD HAVE ITS OWN FULLTIME AUCKLAND TUTOR ON THE FULL PROGRAM AND WHILE AT ETSAB IN BARCELONA [OR ALTERNATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL IN GRANADA OR LISBON] EACH GROUP WOULD SHARE A MAIN IBERIAN PROFESSOR DEDICATED TO ORGANISING THE IBERIAN PHASE OF THE STUDY PROGRAM AS WELL AS EACH YEAR GROUP HAVING ITS OWN DEDICATED DESIGN TUTOR. Proposed design site model

IBERIA ITINERARY 13 Mar / Day 0 dep @ 20:00: Auckland > [ UAE: Dubai and Abudhabi ] 14 Mar / Day 1 UAE: Dubai] Abudhabi 15 Mar / Day 2 Dubai > Madrid [arr Madrid 18:00] 16 Mar / Day 3 Madrid: > Metro Embajadores and walk back [Palacio > Thyssen Bornemicza 17 Mar / Day 4 Madrid: > Metro Atocha and walk back [ Archivo > Reina Sofia > Caixaforum > Prado ] 18 Mar / Day 5 [ dep Madrid @ 9 ] Madrid-Carabanchel > Madrid-Villaverde > Avila > arr Salamanca 19 Mar / Day 6 [ dep Salamanca @ 12 ] > Zamora > Valladolid > arr Burgos [ 350km / 4hr ] 20 Mar / Day 7 [ dep Burgos @ 11 ] > Haro > Vitoria Gasteiz > Bilbao 21 Mar / Day 8 Bilbao 22 Mar / Day 9 [ dep Bilbao @ 9 ] > San Sebastian > Pamplona 23 Mar / Day 10 [ dep Pamplona @ 2 ] > Elciego > La Guardia > Logroño > Zaragoza [ 200km / 5hr ] 24 Mar / Day 11[ dep Zaragoza @ 4 ] > Lleida > Barcelona 25 Mar / Day 12 Barcelona 26 Mar / Day 13 Barcelona 27 Mar / Day 14 Barcelona 28 Mar / Day 15 [ dep Girona @ 11 ] > Girona > Olot > Besalu > Ulustret > Pallafols > Girona 29 Mar / Day 16 [ dep Girona @ 11 ] > Igualada > Mollet del Valles > Ripoll > Barcelona Barcelona 30 Mar / Day 17 [ dep Barcelona @ 9 ] > Castellon de la Plana > Sagunt > Valencia [ 190 km /2hr ] 31 Mar / Day 18 Valencia 1 Apr / Day 19 [ dep Valencia @ 9 ] – Alicante > Aguilas > Cartagena > Almeria [ 255 km / 2.75hr ] 2 Apr / Day 20 [ dep Almeria @ 9 ] > Granada [500 km / 5hr ] 3 Apr / Day 21 [ dep Granada @ 11 ] > Cordoba > Sevilla [ 255 km / 2.75hr ] 4 Apr / Day 22 Sevilla 5 Apr / Day 23 / Easter Sevilla 6 Apr / Day 24 [ dep Sevilla @ 9 ] Huelva > Sines > Lisbon 7 Apr / Day 25 Lisbon 8 Apr / Day 26 Lisbon 9 Apr / Day 27 Lisbon 10 Apr / Day 28 Lisbon 11 Apr / Day 29 Lisbon > Tomar > Porto [ 400 km / 4.5hr ] 12 Apr / Day 30 Porto > Braga > Lisbon [ 400 km / 4.5hr ] 13 Apr / Day 31 Lisbon 14 Apr / Day 32 Lisbon

15 Apr / Day 33 Lisbon 16 Apr / Day 34 [ dep Lisbon @ 9 ] > Badajoz > Merida > Caceres [ 100km / 7hr ] 17 Apr / Day 35 [ dep Caceres @ 12 ] > Trujillo > Guadalupe > Toledo [ 100km / 7hr ] 18 Apr / Day 36 [ dep Toledo @ 4 ] > Madrid suburbs > Madrid [ 100km / 7hr ] 19 Apr / Day 37 Madrid [ dep Madrid @ 18 ] 20 Apr / Day 38 [ day lost in return ] 21 Apr / Day 39 [ arr Auckland ]

Proposed design site plan

Paula Rego

Vhils

Fado Singer

Poor Clares

Tourist Home

Proposed design site cross section

Paula rego gallery exterior inspiration

Vhils office interior inspiration

Paula rego gallery exterior

Vhils office interior

Tourist house interior inspiration

Tourist house interior

Poor clares home inspiration

Fado singer space exterior inspiration

Poor clares home

Fado singer space exterior

Fado singer space interior inspiration

Fado singer space interior

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Project Information Name:

Sunset Beach

Year:

2015, Semester Two

Location:

Auckland, New Zealand

Institution:

The University of Auckland

Supervisors:

Julie Wilson

ON THE BRINK DESIGN DESCRIPTION The design is located in Port Waikato and responds to a site that is on the bink of annihilation. We were drawn to unique way in which the built and natural elements of the site bleed into one another creating a dynamic continuation, embodying the atmosphere of Port Waikato. We respected the needs of the client by creating a design which reflects the sense of pride in the community while facilitating an interaction and separation between private and public thresholds. It has larger spaces, clean vehicular and pedestrain beach accesses, and reduces the imapct of the erosion. Two clean buildings, inspired by the riverbanks of the Waikato River, interacting through the movement of people, a falling truss system and two distinct materials; colour steel and concrete block.

Existing surf lifesaving club exterior perspective

Surf lifesaving club exterior perspective

Surf lifesaving club site photos

Surf lifesaving club site drawings

Surf lifesaving club site analysis

Erosion concept evolution

Surf lifesaving club stage 1 design concept

Surf lifesaving club stage 2 design plans

Surf lifesaving club stage 2 design sections

Surf lifesaving club site plan

Surf lifesaving club site diagrams

Surf lifesaving club landscape section

Surf lifesaving club elevations

Surf lifesaving club plan

Surf lifesaving club section

Surf lifesaving club exterior perspective

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Project Information Name:

Processing

Year:

2016, Semester One

Location:

Auckland, New Zealand

Institution:

The University of Auckland

Supervisors:

Emma Morris Daniel Christev Adam Hunt Liam Stumbles

Emma Morris

Daniel Christev

Adam Hunt

Liam Stumbles

PROCESSING DESIGN PROCESS The Collected: An introduction to a complex architectural thinking. Examines both conceptual and exceptional spaces and develops an understanding of the corresponding architectural systems. This studio will deploy parametric and computational methods to generate architectural spaces. Data will be sourced from material analysis, and processed into visual representations. These experiments will be developed into architectural propositions. a. Source: Collect a material to use in the SEM machine. Look at materials at different stages in their life cycle, during growth, aging or deterioration. Grow materials eg. crystallisation, diatoms, oxides, etc. A cross section or a break through the material will give a better SEM image. The material must be dry, but not cooked. b. Record data: patterns, dimensions, shape, form and structure (morphology), slow motion kinetic behaviour, examples of self assembly, accretion and self organisation (eg crystallisation), oscillations, repetitions, trajectories. Does the material respond to environmental changes, does it respond to applied force over time. Are there impurities or abnormalities in the pattern? c. Analysis: Make connections between your material and other things ie the interaction of parts in a system. Ecology is connections between things. Ecology can be political, environmental, cultural, sociological, economical. Do molecular structural laws dictate the visible, eg snowflakes? How do internal structures dictate material properties? d. Analogue Hybrids: Investigate materiality, assemblage, test materials, texture, look at artistic strategies and precedents. Analogue and digital spaces are not discrete spaces, they impact each other. These are hybrid spaces of interchange. e. Site: The site will be introduced in the second half of semester. As well as analysis of sun, wind, topography, contours, traffic, zoning, existing buildings and structures, trees, waterways, rainfall, soil and rock, etc, a site analysis could include looking for things which are not obvious to the casual observer, census data, cultural data, Statistics New Zealand, history, a microscopic world, a hidden past, layers of information, forensic traces. f. Programme: The programme will be introduced in the second semester. Education Centre: training in technology and advanced manufacturing to enable skills, employment opportunities and creativity, for youth and adult economic migrants.

Aquatic centre exterior perspective

Site analysis

Site wind studies

Fungi Microscope pictures

Physical model studies

Aquatic centre form findings

Aquatic centre form scale studies

Aquatic centre formation

Aquatic centre plans

Aquatic centre exterior perspective

Aquatic centre sections

Train station interior perspective

Metal casting process

Vacuum bending plastic

Final model

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Project Information Name:

Figure and Ground

Year:

2016, Semester Two

Location:

Auckland, New Zealand

Institution:

The University of Auckland

Supervisors:

Craig Moller

FIGURE AND GROUND INTRODUCTION The studio is to investigate two notions. One is the idea of architecture as a figure within a field, the other is the idea of building as a ground. The studio is to investigate both the figure and the ground simultaneously. The studio is concerned with as much about process as it is about the final outcome. CONTEXT The site is the Arts Centre in Christchurch. The historical context of the existing Arts Centre is to be considered twofold. One as the contemporary contextual setting for the figure and ground studio program, the other as the historical site of the University of Canterbury and Christchurch Boys High School. The role that heritage and context play in the deployment of the architectural form is to be considered. The strategies for engaging with heritage are to: respect scale, colour, texture, materiality and grain? CONTENTS The program is for a Graduate School of Architecture on the vacant sites within the Arts Centre. A programmatic brief will be issued with the functional areas of the School of Architecture. There are two key parts to the brief, the first is an exhibition space and library building for the school and the community, and the second is a building to house the school of architecture. COURSE PRESCRIPTION The Systemic: The culmination of all aspects – conceptual, formal, material, tectonic, structural – of architectural design within the context do=f a larger network of infrastructural services. Also requires an understanding of the full range of drawings describing the workings of the building as both an active ‘machine’ and a place for human comfort. Fabric buildings model

Iconic building concept evolution

Iconic building formation concept

Iconic building formation concept model

Iconic building formation concept model material study

Iconic building library space plan B1

Iconic building exhibition space plan G

Iconic building exterior perspective

Iconic building exhibition space perspective

Iconic building library space perspective

Iconic building section

Fabric building critiques

Fabric building floor plate and circulation diagram

Fabric building void volume diagram

Fabric building function diagram

Fabric building facades

Fabric building level B2 plan and axo drawing

Fabric building level B1 plan and axo drawing

Fabric building level G plan and axo drawing

Fabric building level 1 plan and axo drawing

Fabric building level 2 plan and axo drawing

Fabric building roof plan and axo drawing

Fabric building section

Fabric building section model

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Data in : Stress

Year:

2017, Semester One

Location:

Auckland, New Zealand

Institution:

The University of Auckland

Supervisors:

Tom Locke

Tom Locke Barrington Gohns Ji hye Lim Divya Purushotham

Barrington Gohns

Ji hye Lim

Divya Purushotham

Data in : Stress FEEDS ON THE ROT Thriving in a dark corner, the creature chews away the decaying infrastructure of this concrete forest revitalising a new spring. The rapid growth of population in the urban context has raised a series of concerns including the poverty of dwellings and the shortage of green area. These two issues can both be categorised under the term “City Stress”. This project analyses how parametric tools foster the coexistence of multiple functions in one architectural dimension reacting to surrounding social dilemmas. This design program assumes the invention of self-driving vehicle focusing on investigating how shared programs could re-render the vacant urban car park. Through the inspection towards the site and its surrounding neighbourhood the project employs stress (the population divided by the total green area of Auckland city centre) as an input to perform a series of anxiety studies. The study appropriates city stress as a force to form a complex curved surface within a set three dimension al boundary. The inspection also contributes to the settlement of the programs which are a mental health rehabilitation centre and a vertical botanic garden. In both functions, elements that stimulate a calm and restorative1 environment are adopted in methods such as the integrating of vegetation2 , the designing of Heraclitean motion and the soft fascination3 created by water elements. The space is programmed to offer a journey of being aware of the individual’s mental health status through calming, learning and releasing in the space of the botanic garden, mental health centre and functional spa room respectively. It also accommodates an urban farming themed café to provoke people`s primitive happiness through cultivating and harvesting. In a sense, the architecture here takes on the role of friction, slowing and analysing human behaviour and mental capacity within the restless and fast-functioning mind in a futuristic urban climate. Through the stress derived matter the internal programs, functions and clinics filter people though to revitalize head space for better well-being and intellectual performance in this office and production based environment. Pati Diagram

Existing carpark analysis

Woodear fugus form stress study

Minimal surface form studies

Minimal surface facade studies

Downtown rehabilitation formation

Downtown rehabilitation site plan

Downtown rehabilitation centre Axo-diagram

Downtown rehabilitation centre exterior perspective

Downtown rehabilitation centre sections

Vertical botanic garden

Salad square cafe

Jelly fish spa pool

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Project Information Name:

Devonport Tomorrow

Year:

2017, Semester Two

Location:

Auckland, New Zealand

Institution:

The University of Auckland

Supervisors:

Julie Stout

Devonport Tomorrow THE VIEW As one of the early settlements for both British and Maori culture, Devonport’s landscape has provided enclosure for its dwellers1 . Like a mother embracing her returning child, Mount Victoria located in heart of Devonport, is the first landscape gesture to greet you as you step onto the land of “Flagstar.” It is the landmark you walk towards on your journey back home; it is the canvas on which the colourful town cultures that you are familiar with are painted. It`s presence is what calls the sailors’ decedents to finish their works at sea and come home. THE HUMAN DETAILS Walking towards Mount Victoria on a mundane street parallel to the bustling Victoria road, the sound and the scent of timber crafting starts to occupy the human senses. To the left is the “Kevin Johnson boat builders” workshop. Strolling on, the smell of timber distorts away, followed by a mixed aroma from “Devonport chocolate” and “Chiasso coffee company.” Like a treasure map, Devonport town centre is full of surprises and stories: A historical craftsman’s workshop, a sculpted fountain, a decorated public bench and so on. All those human details have filled the town with its own fantastic flavours. “THREE DESIGNS” The Boat & The Landscape - The Boat Builder’s House The Chocolate & The Landscape - The Chocolate Maker’s Place The Food & The Art - The Mixed-use Building Devonport town human perspective drawings

Devonport town urban plan section - mid term

Devonport town site plan

Devonport town site plan transportation analysis

Devonport town urban plan section - mid term

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Devonport town site plan proposed

Boat builder’s house & gallery section

Chocolate factory section

Back of street perspective

Chocolate factory cafe perspective

Mixed use complex building section

Mixed use complex building rooftop perspective

Devonport town site model proposed

Devonport town design models

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Upon Constitution Hill Psychological Identity Depression which leads to disability and potential suicide is a severe global issue. Most depressed adults have their first depressive episode at a young age. Without a doubt, addressing youth depression

Project Information Name:

Thesis

Year:

2018

Location:

Auckland, New Zealand

Institution:

The University of Auckland

Supervisors:

Emma Morris

at an early stage with appropriate treatments, would reduce the future burden on both an individual and society. However, the vast social stigma towards depression has been a great barrier, preventing a significant amount of mentally depressed youth from getting early treatment. As an architectural designer, I’m not in the position to cure or treat depression through architectural designs. Hence, the critical question of this thesis is “how can architecture act as a media to address the social stigma by hosting spaces to experience or express unique psychological identities?” In this thesis, psychological identity is defined by two parts: psychological nurture and psychological challenge. Psychological nurture is based on the theory of genetic drift, where optimal emotions are more likely to be evoked an environment similar to hominoids (early human) habitat. By investigating the primitive Savannah landscape in east Africa where humans evolved, this project integrates the essential characters of this landscape into the design as the major strategy to nurture the unique psychological identities. Psychological challenge is based on varies psychological treatments for the depressed patients. Through designing architectural spaces inspired by psychological treatments, both the architecture intends to encourage the mentally depressed ones to express their unique psychological identity. Such spaces are also expected to represent the psychological struggles depression patients suffer from in order to educate the society so that a better social understanding towards such mental state can be achieved. Over all, the design of this project proposes to blur the barrier of stigma between depression sufferers and the common society. It‘s intended message is “It`s OK to have a unique psychological identity!” through the media of architecture in order to inform and provide early access to treatment for those in need.

Emma Morris

Traditional Japanese woman portrait

Mushroom woman

Site map within Auckland CBD context

Site analysis

Site plan

Counselling centre perspective

Meditation pavilion perspective

Tea room pavilion perspective

Feet spa pavilion perspective

Salad bar pavilion perspective

Counselling centre section & plans

Meditation pavilion section & plan

Tea room pavilion section & plan

Feet spa pavilion section & plan

Salad bar pavilion section & plans

Site model

Counselling centre model

Meditation pavilion model

Site model

Counselling centre model

Meditation pavilion model

Tea room pavilion model

Feet spa pavilion model

Salad bar pavilion model

Tea room pavilion model

Feet spa pavilion model

Salad bar pavilion model

Final presentation

Chaos study diagrams

Mountain, tree, water study diagrams

Kinkakuji drawing

Kinkakuji drawing cave, water, trees analysis

Kinkakuji diagram

Kinkakuji diagram model

Saiboji drawing

Saiboji drawing cave, water, trees analysis

Saiboji diagram

Saiboji diagram model

Ginkakuji drawing

Ginkakuji drawing cave, water, trees analysis

Ginkakuji diagram

Ginkakuji diagram model

Savanna landscape drawing

Savanna landscape model

Savanna landscape drawing

Savanna landscape model

Savanna landscape diagrams

Savanna landscape models

Gyroid surface models

Gyroid surface models’ material studies

Gyroid surface model resin 3D print

Savanna landscape cave

Savanna landscape cave diagram

Threshold diagram

Counselling centre

section

Counselling centre shrooman concept

Counselling centre shrooman concept diagram

Counselling centre plans

Savanna landscape tree

Savanna landscape tree diagram

Rain fall diagram

Meditation pavilion

n section

Meditation pavilion shrooman concept

Meditation pavilion shrooman concept diagram

Meditation pavilion plan

Savanna landscape cantilevered tree

Savanna landscape cantilevered tree diagram

Revealing threshold diagram

Tea room pavilion s

section

Tea room pavilion shrooman concept

Tea room pavilion shrooman concept diagram

Tea room pavilion plan

Savanna landscape trees

Savanna landscape trees diagram

Reflection diagram

Feet spa pavilion se

ection

Feet spa pavilion shrooman concept

Feet spa pavilion shrooman concept diagram

Feet spa pavilion plans

Savanna landscape tree

Savanna landscape tree diagram

Organic circulation diagram

Salad bar pavilion s

section

Salad bar pavilion shrooman concept

Salad bar shrooman pavilion concept diagram

Salad bar pavilion plans

Making mode for casting

Prepare timber for casting

Mixing resin

Welding Table legs

Spray paint table legs

Assembling table

Casting resin

Resin maturing

Presentation

Presenting