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  • Collaboration With: Ian Scott, BA Studio

Elegant Sheds sitting within an Auckland/Pacific Topography
Auckland’s New Water Front & Event Space
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  • Award: NZIA Student Design Award Finalist
  • Exhibited: Generative Components Showcase and Conference in Sydney
  • Grade: A+
  • Tutor: Mike Davis
  • URL: derail.co.nz/designbyparameters

A design thesis on the theory of the design process and how parametric design systems may alleviate the need for abstraction of a design problem and the compromising procedural resolution of it.  It sets out a methodology for approaching a design problem with respect to its complex dynamic of interdependent systems.  Through parametric modeling of these systems we may realise a design problem’s complexity whilst developing an exercisable model it’s resolution.  Key texts: Christopher Alexander’s Notes on the Synthesis of Form and Axel Killian’s Bidirectional Modeling of Constraints.  The thesis accompanies the design of a secondary school.
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  • Award: 3rd Place NZ Super Studio 2008 (gaining entry for international judging)
  • Collaboration With: Nick OLeary, Ian Scott

Proposal for a solar canopy and new park for Fortshritt, a small and isolated town in Australia entirely dependent on it’s solar panel manufacturing industry.  Our proposal made sculptural and innovative use of solar panels to put Fortshritt ‘on the map’, highlight the importance of their industry, power all homes in the town and to create a community park which celebrates the solar panel industry.  Panels move along a rail system whose profile and form, resolved through parametric modeling, define a movement pattern of the panels along the rails to optimise their relative angle to the sun aswell as for aesthetic interest.
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  • Award: NZIA Student Design Award Finalist, Cavalier Breamworth Student Merit
  • Collaboration With: Ian Scott
  • Exhibited: Generative Components Showcase and Conference in Sydney
  • Grade: A+
  • Tutor: Mike Davis

A design project requiring the resolution of a network of bike stations, the realising of one of those bike stations (node) and detail resolution of that choosen station.  With the motivation of attempting to computationally define (computer program) the entire design project we were able to approach these requirements considering a condition of multiplicity.  By computationally defining each requirement we provided the means to resolving a network of bike stations for any given city, the means to resolving any one of those generated nodes and the means to resolving the entirly unique components and details for a nominated node including production of its fabrication documentation.  This project has generated considerable interest in the digital design community of New Zealand and Australia (thanks to Mike Davis) as well as the Auckland City Council and Planners.
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  • Client: Glamuzina Patterson Architecture
  • Features: RSS Feed, Derail Website Manager
  • URL: gp-a.co.nz

DERAIL Website for Dominic Glamuzina and Aaron Patterson.

This site was designed to present a simple project index leading to simple project files showing photographs of each project.  The general aesthetic of the site was developed in colaboration with GP-A’s graphic designer.  The site is self maintained by GP-A using the DERAIL Website Manager system.
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  • Grade: A+
  • Tutor: Mike Davis

Temporary Outdoor Gallery Space.  Beginning as a design with Kevin Wang for a international competition entry judged in Austin, Texas, for a series of exhibition structures for their annual arts and design festival.  The brief required consideration and unification of the arts with architecture which we responded to by programming a digitally generative system that output contextually responsive sculptural forms.

I later developed this design project as a research project exploring the generative architectural systems in Generative Components and Processing.
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  • Award: NZIA Top in 4th Year Design
  • Grade: A+
  • Tutor: Steven Lloyd, Matt Brew

With an underlying requirement for consideration of an urban context this project (small bar/resturant and residential buidling) developed out of a diagrammatic interpretation of “metastable urban tension”.  Diagrams considered and reconstructed the relevance of buildings and people as urban forces with a bidirectional effect on one another.  This led to the generating of basic building form and a perforated panel system that allowed and illustrated: openness, closure, public and private differences within the designed building responding to the diagrammed relevent to the project site.  The perforated panels were digitally generated, see info graphics project.
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  • Client: Daniel Marshall Architect
  • Features: Derail Website Manager, RSS Feed, Javascript Intensive
  • URL: marshall-architect.co.nz

DERAIL Website for Daniel Marshall

Designed to reflect the highly contemporary and sleek aesthetic of DMA’s sleek and sculptural architecture.  Professional photographs of DMA’s work are displayed as part of an image slideshow which include user activated slide in text for each project.  All content is added and managed by DMA using the Derail Website Manager which has allowed the programming of automatic cross referencing; automated organising of projects by date, project type and the generating of lists of published and award winning projects.
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  • Grade: A+
  • Tutor: Daniel Marshall, Graeme Cunningham

A two part design project.  Firstly the design brief required three conceptual projects which, for me, were three highly conceptual diagrammatic investigations into:  1.  traditional polynesian “way finding” or navigation,  2.  the architectural/diagrammatic processes of Stan Allen and,  3.  the diagrammatic generating of an Auckland Spatial Type.

The conceptual diagramming lead to the development of a design methodology to be applied in the design of a low cost house with highly practical requirements (3E’s - environment, economy, energy), for a Habitat for Humanity design competition.  A flexible and extendable system using essentially two basic design modules was developed out of conceptually developed methodologies to answer the competition brief.

Some of the conceptual diagramming work was later developed in an Advanced Computing project - information graphics.
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  • Collaboration With: Invited NICAI Students
  • Tutor: Professor Steven Farthing

A drawing workshop for invited creative industry students was held and run by visiting Professor of drawing, Steven Farthing.  I was invited as one of the six BArch/MArch students to participate.  We developed and drew an architectural response to the George Fraser Gallery on its walls and floor which were later contributed to by engineers, musicians and dancers.  I was also involved to photograph the drawing events and exhibition of the work.