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INSTITUTE FOR OCEANOGRAPHY & MARINE SCIENCE JASON KIRK DOURADO ADVANCED DESIGN 2 - Chris Barton & Lindsay Mackie

INSTITUTE FOR OCEANOGRAPHY & MARINE SCIENCE Jason Kirk Dourado AD2 Chris Barton & Lindsay Mackie

The Meeting Place, Maori and Pakeha First Encounters

The first human settlement of the Tamaki / Auckland isthmus was by Maori.

Their occupation of the Waitamata followed the existing geography, with iwi, small family based groups, settling in the bays with easy access to kai moana (sea food). Also fortified villages were constructed by terracing the existing topography, occupied by the headlands. The painting depicted above is the first culmination of exchange between two different worlds. It portrays the beach, the foreshore in New Zealand as a place that has witnessed trade, confrontation, and the emotions connected to its history, the land, and its people.

The Meeting Place - A New Zealand History Blog 2 Trade and Confrontation drawing http://themeetingplacenz.blogspot.co.nz/2012/08/back-to-future.html

INSTITUTE FOR OCEANOGRAPHY & MARINE SCIENCE Jason Kirk Dourado AD2 - Deported: Reclaiming Auckland’s Foreshore

Our Oceans are vast and boundless

As time progresses our connection to water is diminishing. Though development and infrastructure are inevitable in a growing nation, our city is slowly being consumed by our own ignorance. Creative cities, cities that go through a ‘Golden age’ are almost certainly uncomfortable, unstable, collectively self examining and in the course of time kicking over the traces. Just as the first encounters took place on the sea, they were outsiders who looked at our shorelines and developed a perspective of their own. The view of auckland’s harbour that presents itself today is hostile, aggressive and inimical. Our oceans will eventually become tones of grey, and the land will follow.

3 We are fluidly connected to water in all its immensity Vector Diagram

INSTITUTE FOR OCEANOGRAPHY & MARINE SCIENCE Jason Kirk Dourado AD2 Chris Barton & Lindsay Mackie

Site Plan Collage

It is one of the twenty-first century’s great ironies that the more we come to understand the irreplaceable capabilities of the natural world, the less of it we have left. This is particularly salient in the extensions of ports of auckland, where sprawling development continues to extend the urban footprint ever further. The response was to re-design the site, and its land as a series of islands or an archipelago that extends throughout harbour, in an attempt to visualize an oasis that once revealed itself to early explorers. This sense of arrival is amplified with a biodiverse ecology that will offer people multiple ways to engage directly with nature without ever leaving the city.

4 Master Planning Indicative Site Plan

INSTITUTE FOR OCEANOGRAPHY & MARINE SCIENCE Jason Kirk Dourado AD2 - Deported: Reclaiming Auckland’s Foreshore

Kings Tide Auckland

The aim here was to always share an affinity with the ocean and more importantly the harbour. This was achieved by restoring Auckland’s shoreline as a beach. In Auckland our proximity to the coast means that many of our favourite places to play and relax are near the water.

These locations like Quay street are strongly impacted by King Tides.

Capturing evidence of King Tides and studying these places where they occur raises public awareness towards how we can migitate and protect our delicate environment and also allows a glimpse of what our daily tides may look like in the future as a result of sea level rise.

Precedent Study 5 Our shores are constantly being altered by human and natural processes. http://auckland.kingtides.org.nz/.

INSTITUTE FOR OCEANOGRAPHY & MARINE SCIENCE Jason Kirk Dourado AD2 Chris Barton & Lindsay Mackie

Leigh Marine Laboratory

The Leigh Marine Laboratory is

a marine research facility for the

University of Auckland in New Zealand. The facility is perched on the cliffs overlooking the Goat Island marine reserve that covers 5 km of coastline from Cape Rodney to Okakari Point. An important part of research at the Leigh Marine Laboratory is supporting the development of aquaculture species in New Zealand. With the changing climate, rising oceans and increased severity of cloudbursts, there is a need more than ever to understand the profound influence that marine life and oceans have on our lives.

Precedent Study 6 Marine Research Center https://cdn.auckland.ac.nz/assets/marine/for/future-undergraduates/images/cl-research-

INSTITUTE FOR OCEANOGRAPHY & MARINE SCIENCE Jason Kirk Dourado AD2 - Deported: Reclaiming Auckland’s Foreshore

Concept sketch

The coastal edge is the concidence of two conditions - land and sea. It is also a unique landscape that has been created by tidal movements and rhythms, wave phenoma and processes which results in the changing of the environment. This borderline is where two elements are forever changing and shifting, pushing and pulling our coastal edge. Each tidal movement delivers or uncovers the new. It is the rise and fall of tides that renews the shoreline daily. This borderline is an area of change and of various in-between conditions, it is an environment where nothing is permanent.

7 Our shores are constantly being altered by human and natural processes. http://auckland.kingtides.org.nz/.

INSTITUTE FOR OCEANOGRAPHY & MARINE SCIENCE Jason Kirk Dourado AD2 Chris Barton & Lindsay Mackie

Placement of Design on site

Auckland lies between two harbours and is surrounded by 3100 kilometres of coastline. Many people live and work in close proximity to the coast and much of the regions early development, such as downtown Auckland, the Port and major roads occurred on or near reclaimed land.

It is important to accept that we need to understand and consider the impacts that climate change may have on the way we currently live, work and play. Hence the segment of land around the building is raised by 1.5 m to account for the rise in sea levels and the urban beach terraces into the water to thus protecting Quay street for the next 150 years.

8 The site responding to the threat of climate change http://auckland.kingtides.org.nz/about/climate-change/

INSTITUTE FOR OCEANOGRAPHY & MARINE SCIENCE Jason Kirk Dourado AD2 - Deported: Reclaiming Auckland’s Foreshore

Design Development Drawing

Architecture starts with people. It is about the experience that you generate, create or curate for people. So I was very much interested in addressing those social and environmental issues of living. Auckland was never meant to be the size it is now. We are on a small part of a small island and we’re filling it up, placing more people in, urbanization , Sprawl - One day it’s going to crack and slide back into the sea. This notion is what I want to reflect in the building, that it might be responsive, perhaps an architecture that might start in very primitive ways to be alive.

9 The design has to bridge the knowledge, awareness and relationship between water, the city and it’s people.

INSTITUTE FOR OCEANOGRAPHY & MARINE SCIENCE Jason Kirk Dourado AD2 Chris Barton & Lindsay Mackie

Digital model of Design on site

The design sets out to create opportunities that can act as a testing ground for new types of hybrid programmes. As a response to the contamination of the waitemata, the project proposes a research facility that reduces the remediation of the body of water of the waitemata. It allows the public to come into direct contact with social awareness, keeping with the natural conditions of the site, a place in necessary flux.

The visitors will be able to explore the impact of energy consumption through a series of interactive spaces that shows the inner workings of heating, ventilation and water systems, and the role that architceture plays in harvesting renewable energy.

10 The design tells a story of Energy, Remediation, and Research

INSTITUTE FOR OCEANOGRAPHY & MARINE SCIENCE Jason Kirk Dourado AD2 - Deported: Reclaiming Auckland’s Foreshore

Digital modelling 3D Perspective

The medium of Architecture is the Environment. Your taking the resources, land, materials from the environment and modifying it. In a land culture such as Auckland, there has to be no distinction between the man made and the natural, hence we are part of the environment and the environment is part of us. Therefore this institute for marine sciences and oceanography is an attempt to brace ourselves for the future, to learn, to study, to live with water as opposed to fighting it because it is always around us, and with the eminent change in conditions gobally we have to adapt.

11 To explain, explore and protect the natural environment