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Marae project wins award
Landscape student designs for Hurunui-o-Rangi Marae BY GERALD FORD A landscape architecture student’s vision for a Wairarapa marae has taken out a national award. Claudia Boyo, a student at the School of Architecture at Victoria University, was part of a recent collaboration between the school and Hurunui-o-Rangi marae, near Carterton, where the students were hosted. Claudia’s design received an “award of excellence, student”, at the Resene Institute of Landscape Architects of New Zealand Pride of Place Awards. In her fourth year of study, Claudia is preparing for her Masters degree in landscape architecture. She and her fellow students were hosted at the marae as part of an annual field trip for the school, in which they were tasked with finding a landscape issue in the Carterton district and “see what we could do as designers to solve it”. “We were looking at economic, social and environmental problems, and ways to solve them while making them contemporary. The class toured “significant features of the district”, but returned each evening to the marae. “Having lived on it, I felt the site was the closest to my heart. It’s culturally a really significant space,” Claudia said. “I just knew it was going to be the marae. It was so open to design.” Claudia said in her research she “discovered Carterton was more of a thoroughfare than a destination” and aimed to develop the marae into an extra attraction for tourists to come to Carterton as a destination in itself.
Claudia Boyo, a landscape architecture student at Victoria University, won a student award of excellence at the Resene Institute of Landscape Architects Pride of Place Awards, for her project on Hurunui-o-Rangi Marae, Gladstone. PHOTO/VICKI CLAGUE
She wanted to create “a space that community members wanted to engage with, and that would overflow for more people to be interested outside the community”. The problem and opportunity that struck Claudia was a lack of visual cultural material in the marae space, such as carvings and plantings.
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