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University Work Portfolio

Examples of architectural design and analysis work from university projects

Flexible Prefab Infill

Masters Thesis Design Project

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A project exploring the potential of flexible design principles and prefab construction to create affordable, higher density, residential infill housing.

Immunotherapy for Neighbourhood Character

ARCI 411, Project 2

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This project uses the metaphor of a virus and immunotherapy in an attempt to mitigate the gentrification of the suburb of Newtown, Wellington, providing modern yet character influenced housing for a wide range of residents.

Graphic Analysis

ARCI 412, Part 1 

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This project presents a graphical analysis of an existing case study and the project site of Riccarton, Christchurch, with emphasis on how suburbs can be redeveloped in order to improve failing conditions.

Re-Activating the Street Edge: Riccarton Road

ARCI 412, Part 2

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This project builds on the ideas drawn form the previous graphic analysis.  It uses these ideas to create mixed-use designs that incorporate retail, commercial and residential aspects to create an active street environment to counter the mall.

Social Interaction Exhibition Hall

ARCI 312, Project 1

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This project explores the concept of social interaction. Through the use of an interactive exhibition, people must communicate and work together in order to view exhibits by standing on pressure sensitive light pads on the floor of the exhibition hall.

The Ambience of Rhythm: NZ School of Music

ARCI 312, Project 2

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This project explores the layering of different rhythems and beats, as in music, and how these rhythms alter the feel and experience of a space.

Graphic Analysis - Parkville Gardens

ARCI 311, Project 1

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This project graphically analyses the ex-olympic games village of Parkville Gardens and explores how the uses of space changed after the games were completed. 

Urban Fringe High Density

ARCI 311, Project 2​​
 

This project built on the work of an earlier urban design group project, developing an organically growing, high density urban fringe development.  This project focussed on the public squares dotted thoughout the development and how public and private space is defined.

Bio-Mimetic Moisture Filter

ARCH 222, Project 3, Benson Cooper Awards

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This sustainable architecture project aimed to improve a building system using bio-mimicry.  This project   improved a building ventillation system with the addition of a passive moisture filter based on lichen.  This project won the 2010 Benson-Cooper Award for Building Technology

SOAD Lecture Theatre

ARCH 212, Project 3

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The aim of this project was to design a further lecture theature and exhibition space for the SOAD campus in an adjacent empty lot, without interfering with access to other buildings in the area.

Villa Savoye Solar Event

ARCH 212 , Project 1

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This project altered Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye in order to create a 'solar event.'  In this case, a hole cut through the building and an external object which only line up at one particular time of the year, illuminating the object. 

SOAD Lecture Theatre - Construction Drawings

SARC 321, Project 2

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This project consisted of creating a set of construction drawings for the SOAD lecture theatre project.

House for 2 People - Construction Drawings

ARCH 241, Project 3

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The aim of this construction project was to design and build a house for two people, limited to a 4m x 6m footprint, designed to NZS3604 standards, along with a set of construction detail drawings. 

Waitangi Park Public Baths

ARCH 212, Project 2

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This project is a design for an indoor pool complex at Waitangi Park that highlighted an environmental condition of the site: wind.  The form of the project channels the wind in certain areas to exaggerate its effects, while sheltering others to create contrast.

Social Movement Interpretation - Sutch House

ARCH 102, Project 3

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This project placed an existing building into a new setting, creating an architectural intervention.  The aim of this intervention was to interpret social movement and how altering regular patterns of movement can influence the way a space is used.

Dystopia vs Utopia

ARCH 211, Project 1

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This project explores how two aspects of the same object or space can contrast or contradict.  The designed 'cell' contrasted the ordered, linear 'utopia' with the chaotic, angular 'dystopia' and provided space between them to bridge the divide.

Saynatsalo Kunnantalo Town Hall

ARCH 101, Project 2

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This project was a drawing exercise based on the Saynatsalo Town Hall

Earth and Sky Retreat

ARCH 112, Project 2

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This project was a retreat for an astronomer and a geologist with an aim of exploring the relationships and connections between earth and sky.   

Wellington Train Station - Tschumi Interpretation

ARCH 101, Project 3

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This project was an interpretation of the Wellington train station based on the work of Bernard Tschumi in his 'Manhatten Transcripts.' 

Prenzel Distillary Complex

7th Form Graphics Major Project

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This client based project designed a redevelopment of the Prenzel distillary and offices, merging several buildings into one, aiming to improve productivity and efficiency, while catering for many requirements.   This project won the Commercial Architcture category at the 2007 Young Designers Awards.

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