TOTES THE DRILL 2050 In Fashion/Object/Startup
ractive pavilion/kinetic architecture/projective mapping
Performanceinstallation/protest installation
Experimental making project/interior/residential
Narrative story telliing, interactive community spaces, landsfcape architecture
Work/competitions/photography
An Interactive Pavilion That Exemplifies A Blend Of Maori Traditions And Ecological Restoration, Callling For A Common Rebuild Of The Natural Habitat Between The Man And Birds Of Urupukapuka Island
Individual Academic Work
Duration: 2021.03-06
Site Location: Urupukapuka Island, Bay of Islands, New Zealand
The demise of the quarter-acre dream became a prevalent narrative in New Zealand during the late 1980s and 90s, as evident from the diminishing backyard spaces and increasing over-densification continuing to this day. It is crucial to emphasize that a man-centered way of living not only resulted in the increasingly lose of connection with our whenua but also disrupted the habitats of local bird and plant species, ultimately leading to their decline.
As a nation renowned for its diverse natural habitats, various organizations actively engage in the ecological restoration of pest-free islands. Notably, within the eastern Bay of Islands where native subtropical habitats, lush and vegetation are celebrated, and alive with bird songs. Hence, in partnership with Project Island Bird Song, the Whare Manu Bird Auditorium is introduced as a focal point and interactive educational space at the entrance of Urupukapuka Island. Its purpose is to engage visitors in a dialogue with the island’s hosts- avian inhabitants, bringing their songs to life, and spread awareness to the public, in the longterm co-building with the birds to a greater future of natural restorations
Powhiri is known as a Maori tradition of welcoming visitors onto the marae. The process consists of an exchange of songs and greetings between the host and the guests as a formal welcome procedure. The design is inspired by the protocol of this traditional Maori process. By imagining birds as the host of the island, the visitors are invited to utilise the Maori instrument poi awhiowhio-traditionally used as a bird lure-to frame a self-introduction as they enter the land By immersing visitors in the songs and habitats of birds, it strives to foster a deeper appreciation and understanding of the natural world.
A Translation Of The Maori Pepeha Into An Interactive Experiences, With The Narration Of Making A Kite On The Historical Lands Of Rawhiti, Weaved Into A Village, Seeking To Cater Homefinding
Individual Academic Work
Duration:2021.07-11
Site Location: Rawhiti, Northland, New Zealand
The “Pepeha”, a way of introducing one by sharing one’s connection with the people and places important to them, is a traditional Maori method of understanding one’s identity. This connection is much threaded within the lives of maori people, from growing, harvesting, celebrating, and the passing down of knowledge.
Besides Te Rawhiti marae, Bay of Islands, is a peice of land that once held great maori settlement prior to european arrival, and seeking for greater bondage with its heritage through fostering living spaces for maori children that grew up in city settings. Thus, the brief became to design a village, but not just a village, that ties the value of Pepeha into a immersive experience to help Maori children reconnect within their land.
The kite flying tradition is translated as a symbol of the harvesting, learning, and celebration Maori iwi exercise as means to connect with their land on the basis of everyday living. A series of three installations are weaved into the village fabric, above market lanes, besides residential units, and net to sea shores, to foster creative exploration of the land that may lead to one completing the homefinding process along the way.
An Experimental Installation Highlighting And Encouraging The Role Of Community Members In The Shaping Of Neighbourhoods And City Expansions
Individual Personal Work
Duration: 2023.05-06
Site Location: Auckland, New Zealand
“THE DRILL 2050” assesses the impact of city expansion on community living conditions, through investigating the intense numbers of construction sites around auckland, and many planned ahead to respond to the recent Future Development Strategies 2050 annoucement made by the Auckiland Council.
Questioning the role of community members in the shaping of their future neibourhood, the projects seeks to create a space where one can foresee the changes ahead of them, be apart of the change, and inspect the change that happen in the future. The performative installation takes place over a 4 week period as a respond to the short timeframe offered for feedback and suggestions towards the FDS plan, hoping to raise voice from and with the community against the issues of city densification and over-expansion of city centres that do not take into account the concequences on the daily lives of civilians. The design hopes to serve as a model for potential future protests, to offer a transparent, structured, voice projection platform for those that wish to and should be part of the deicion makings of the places they live in.
Viewing Living As Temporary Acts Of Performances Rather Than Permenant Objects, How May Transformable Design Lead To More Interesting Methods Of Inhabitation?
Individual Academic Work
Duration: 2022.07-10
Site Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
The project looks at three different scales at which human body interacts with its surrounding environment. From a small suitcase object, to a medium sized one room building, and eventually leading to an infill apartment within a 4m narrow gap. The design seeks to question: how can we utilise transformable features in our everyday lives to foster more interesting interactions with our surroundings, hence new ways of inhabitation?
Each scale up the spectrum, are an accumuilation of observed ways of interaction between human body and space in the previous scale as a result of activating new surfaces. taken further, thus, accumulating to come to a solution for the 4m x 12m x 24m apartment complex. The design explores the interlocking of two separate units which façades are characterised by personalised timber modules filling a CLT skeletal structure, seeking to question the relationship between inner surface vs outer surface through transformability, the tempoerary vs permnant in structures, and the family vs individual in the ways of inhabitations.
Following the completion of exploring spaces in the physical realm. An extended experiment with the concept of transformable structures is completed within extended realities to explore the potentials of hybrid spaces that allow for physical spaces to be overlayed into new functionable typologies, utilising liDAR scanning technologies, mozilla hubs virtual spaces, and meta quest VR devices. Questioning the potentials of future habitation that are not limited to phyiscal boundaries The supporting video showcases the hybrid flats taken into action during lockdown times.
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Performance video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtFsacmfAB8
