A COLLECTION
By Alexandra Smith
The Downtown Shopping Mall
The Auckland Plan
Collection Of Ideas
Arrival in Auckland First stop: Souvenir shop in a mall
... “Green As”
A Beautiful Thought “They sowed their isn’t they reaped their same... ...Children guessed(but only a few and down they forgot as up they grew” - E. E. Cummings
A Collection
of
Impressions
Inspiration Benjamin, W. (1955) Unpacking my library: A talk about book collecting. In Steffens, J. (Ed.) Unpacking my library: Architects and their books. pp.1-10). New York, NY: Yale University Press.
The Character’s Journeys Individual voices, different viewpoints, each with their own experience of the site.
The Short Stories
A Short Story: A selection of narratives composed to create an enhanced experience when reading the group as a whole. Each story stands alone as journey, a character, a mood, but when the whole is read together each is intensified and new interpretations can be formed. In a commercial place where people continue to “sow their isn’t and reap their same”... I propose a collection of spaces, each holding their own story. Each is tied together in a way that can be read, yet the space bewteen is free. There is no defining narative. A balance of discovery and showcase, of retreat and interaction, of freedom and control. This juxtaposition of different voices intensifies the whole.