LuxCity, described as a city made from light for one night in Christchurchs ear-quake stricken CBD, was the opening event for the Festival of Transitional Architecture, involving more than 350 architecture and design students from across New Zealand.
ETCH-A-SKETCH is a dynamic and interactive light installation that is conceived to celebrate this time of burgeoning possibilities for the city of Christchurch. Operating on a massive scale, the giant Etch-a-Sketch will draw bright vectors of light that form wireframe rectilinear ‘light structures’ both around and above festival goers as they walk through the space. These light structures will materialize seemingly out of thin air presenting a myriad of ethereal spatial potentialities that respond to the movement of festival-goers.
Christchurch Client: Black Betty’s Cafe
Tutors: Anna Tong [UoA], Chris Holmes [UoA]
Students: Tania West, Helen Chen, Archit Dhingra, Amy Flett, Nathan Hayes, Han Jiang, Nicholas Johnston, Ivrel Kagaoan, Ulysses Kim, Ji Sun Lee, Mickey Ma, Rachael Russel, Mary Shin, Regan Tse, Emily Wu, Yuchen Zuo, Rosa Song, Ye Jin Yoon, Jenny Chen
Key Sponsors: Entertainment Lighting Solutions, JA Russell / Radcliffe, General Cables, 3M, Bridon, Chep, Easysteel, Aerofast
Other Sponsors: Carlton Electronics, Brenics Fresh, CarterHoltHarvey Woodproducts, HES NZ LTD, Ullrich Aluminium, Anzor, WT Distributors Ltd
Consultants: Nick Abel from Entertainment Lighting Solutions, Harry Kleyn from Structurflex, John Chapman & James McAllister from SoAP/University of Auckland, Steel Construction New Zealand, LZ New Zealand
Etch-a-Sketch'
Luxcity Event, Christchurch, 2012.
Second Year Architecture Design
Housing New Zealand Corp.
Auckland, 2013.
Open-Desk Internship
This conceptual work involved the redesigning of the infamous state housing typology 'The Starblock' and a new additional terrace housing development on Cotterill Street.
This work was created through using both Sketch-Up + Photoshop software during an internship at Housing New Zealand Corporation.
Coffee Table
Auckland, 2014.
Fabrication Elective Paper.
A ply wood coffee table designed using CNC digital fabrication methods. The design concept was to design a piece of furniture that was fabricated without nails and minimal fixings.
After modelling the table in Rhino the CNC was used to cut out each ply member individually ensuring each member is exact and precisely accurate. Domino joints, dowelling and glue joints were used and taken into account before the CNC was used.
The individual components are held together by dowelling and glue. The design and fabrication allows for a dip in the componentry and provides a shelving space or possible magazine rack.
Birch Ply Wood supplied from Plytech NZ Ltd.