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ARCHITECTURE
This is a freelance project I completed for Elliott Architects prior to starting work for them. In a way this work got me the job I currently enjoy, a job offer I wasn’t expecting, an offer I didn’t ask for, but one I am glad I took.
This work is about the loss of sovereignty of the Taranaki Maori and the hard work by many that has begun a new journey of self-discovery for all of us.
The conceptual ideas in this work are currently being built and I have ended up gaining valuable experience managing the contract. Thank you Elliott Architects.
Climbing the mountain
The final two Wharenui I designed for my final year thesis project. I was continuing my search for something different, something that would inspire me towards a new way of thinking about architecture, a new way of thinking about the world, a new way of seeing my own creativity.
Did I find it? I’m not sure. It was a difficult year on many fronts, a year of change, a year of learning, a year of growth.
For now I continue my search.
Wharenui - the simplicity of light & the shadow of complexity
The first of the 3 Wharenui I designed in my final year thesis project. This was a literal exploration of the Maori creation myth.
The growth of the darkness from the void.
The creation of Ranginui, Papatuanuku.
The bodily separation of the mother and the father by their children.
The birth of the world of light.
Located at my childhood marae - Paraihaka.
Wharenui - stepping into the past
 Panel 1 of the end result of re-imagining Cuba Street. A strange lawn of light in the sky. |  Panel 2 of the end result of re-imagining Cuba Street. |  Panel 3 of the end result of re-imagining Cuba Street. |
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 A project that pushed us to think outside the box re-imagining Cuba Street in Wellington. A very strange project that forced me out of my comfort zone. |  Architectural Folly. In my fourth year I really started to explore the deeper side of architecture, the emotional side of space as it relates to those who create it and those who use it. |  Broken Home Panel 2 |
 Broken Home Panel 3 |  Broken Home Panel 4 |  A drawing from the Broken Home project sketch book exploring the nature of public monuments & art work. |
 A drawing from the Broken Home project sketch book exploring the nature of public monuments & art work. |  A drawing from the Broken Home project sketch book exploring the nature of home. |  A drawing from the Broken Home project sketch book exploring the nature of home. |
 A drawing from the Broken Home project sketch book this is of the model I built in the related Stationary Spaces project |  A detail for the Broken Home Suspension System inspired by the tension model. |  A project exploring the abstract representation of movement through Civic Square in Wellington, New Zealand. |
 Earthquake memorial museum on the Wellington waterfront. |  Panel 1 of a hand drawn project for a writers retreat on the home site of famous New Zealand Poet Hone Tuwhare. |  Panel 2 of a hand drawn project for a writers retreat on the home site of famous New Zealand Poet Hone Tuwhare. |
 A redevelopment of the changing room at Freyberg pool in Wellington, New Zealand. |  A section of a second year project exploring the relationship between darkness, light & reflection. |  This was my first design project from my first year at university. An observatory retreat for scientists on sabbatical. |
A view of the side entrance.
A view of the main entrance.
The floor plan. The cafe entrance is towards the bottom left of the plan
A view of the side entrance.