(Where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts)
QUAY STREET BERM “The Council have yet to confirm if they will mow this one.�
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berm running the length of Quay street utilising a mix of hard and soft infrastructure designed to protect the waterfront in the event of sea rises, flooding or other extreme weather events. Terraced seating invites the public to interact with the ocean and creates the potential for water-based entertainment - a floating stage or theatre.
THE MARINE LOOP A
walk-able breakwater designed to protect the city in the event of extreme weather events while. A walking path, cycle lane, boat ramp and set of terraced steps create a public amenity that would compliment the Quay Street Berm and provide connection between the proposed Wynyard Park and revitalised Queen’s Wharf.
JOHN GALT STATION A
station beneath the block that accommodates the stopping of every second train, bringing people up through underground retail lit by skylights from above
CITY CYCLEWAY A
cycleway that starts midway up a building and runs around it, across Quay street and along to Wynyard Quarter. This is a much needed addition to the city that will provide not only a tourist attraction but also encourage cycling as an alternative form of transport.
Friends in High Places
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eing privee to Auckland’s views is generally limited to people willing to pay for them and workers in commercial high rises. This proposal suggests the addition of public “tree-house” like spaces attached to buildings, each one framing a certain view and responding to a slightly different function.
PANOPTICOM Rules: 1. You do not talk about panopticom. 2. You DO NOT talk about panopticom. 3. Leave all technology at the door, with batteries removed. 4. Enter through the approved entrance only. 5. Pass through the metal detector and xray machine. 6. Any attempts to resist pat-down will be treated as suspicious.
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response to the issues of surveillance that have had a presence in the New Zealand media in the past two years, with Kim Dotcom, the GSCB and the TPPA changing the way people perceive privacy. What is a private space? Fences vs Firewalls? How can the Surveilled become the surveillants? Should safety outweigh privacy?
The light is good; the reading lamps long-necked: All doors have keys. Your modern architect Is in collusion with psychoanalysts: When planning parents’ bedrooms, he insists On lockless doors so that, when looking back, The future patient of the future quack May find, all set for him, the Primal Scene.
DAGNY TAGGART GARDENS
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he existence of green space promotes a certain type of occupation, lounging, playing, discovery. Grass space is complimented by a brutalist garden, a sense of nostalgia, the opposition of hard and soft. (Because brutally ugly sounds a lot like beautifully ugly)
Event/s Centre/al A
uckland has developed a number of interesting and exciting spaces, but the places between them fall flat. The site as a hub for events (being significant in terms of transport and location) could act to activate not only key sites around the city but also the spaces in between. There is opportunity to run events that spread across sites, encouraging people to explore the city.
FOOD COHOURT P
artially submerged retail creates terracing in the space above and also creates a platform for events and markets. The structure includes three tiers, one for services, one for market stalls and one as a covered walkway. The steps above provide seating and the potential for performances to take place at the bottom, providing the ideal viewing space.
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he markets can be shut up, transported or transformed into seating areas when not in use. The space is exactly that of a carpark so in the event of a larger market, utilising neighbouring carpark buildings, the stalls can simply be moved and reassembled.
ALBERT SQUARE A
public square at ground level would be shifted from the Queen Street side and onto the sunnier North-Western side. This move would be supplemented by the continuation of a laneway network The square would spill out into Albert Street, creating a new shared space.
TOWER OF BABBLE A
University of Auckland Arts Campus that would bring a much needed dose of diversity into the central city. Located on the site the tower would be advented by the improved transport system, addition of green space, improved retail and the market-like food court. Student accommodation would make the building a 24hr spaces. The Arts tower would bring women, politically liberal (and potentially socialist) students, ethnically diverse groups and a range of languages into an otherwise male-dominated, white and neo-liberal CBD.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
or so it goes.