Wharekai & Maarakai
Introducing a wharekai and wharenui to Matiu Island is key to fostering community, hospitality, and cultural exchange. This proposal explores the renovation of the existing quarantine facility on the northern summit to include a wharekai with a communal kitchen, dining area, storage, an indoor greenhouse, and workshop/classroom space—designed to support collective learning and connection.
By removing the building’s central section, a cross-shaped courtyard is created—an open, sunlit space encouraging kotahitanga, unity between host and guest. This courtyard becomes the heart of the complex, linking the northern and eastern wings and enhancing the sense of togetherness.
The use of exposed timber and translucent cladding brings natural light and warmth, creating a peaceful, welcoming environment with minimal impact on the land. The design honours the site’s past while marking a clear shift toward a future grounded in mātauranga Māori, offering a space for iwi and visitors to learn, share, and thrive together.
Urban Design: Tasman Street
This project proposes a mixed-use masterplan for the intersection of Tasman and Rugby Streets in Mount Cook, Wellington, addressing the city’s urgent need for affordable housing while enhancing urban livability. The proposal introduces 90 medium-density residential units and 10 commercial spaces, carefully integrated into a steeply sloped site through thoughtful massing, orientation, and sectional variation. Emphasizing human-scale design, passive solar access, and placemaking, the scheme creates a network of public, shared, and private open spaces that enhance livability and social interaction. The design acts as an architectural link between Newtown and Te Aro, unifying diverse urban fabrics through contextual sensitivity and spatial cohesion.
Pariwhero Hiker’s Hut
The Catcher in the Sun is a site-specific architectural intervention designed to engage with the rugged terrain and solar path of a remote mountain landscape. Positioned to capture both sunlight and panoramic views, the structure serves as a solitary retreat that balances exposure and shelter. The design process incorporates site analysis, environmental considerations, and material sensitivity, culminating in a vertical timber-and-metal volume that lightly touches the earth. The building is organized around a central light shaft and a series of platforms for rest and reflection, emphasizing stillness, isolation, and connection to the surrounding landscape. This project explores how architecture can become a poetic and respectful mediator between human presence and natural forces.
Matiu Masterplan
The project was concerned with altering and improving Matiu’s infrastructure to cater for its residents, visitors and native flora and fauna in a way that supports and encourages the preservation of Te Ao Maori and fosters new kinds of learning.
ReClaimed Library
Shelly Bay has undergone various transformations over the past century. Changes to its use, geography and cultural connections have made it a controversial site to work with. All in all, the land of Shelly Bay is seen as very valuable real estate in the eyes of urban developers.
The reclamation of land that now makes up the coastline of this bay poses an interesting idea on the thought of reclamation. Land reclamation seen as a physical action resulting in an extended shoreline.
This project aims to question the idea of land reclamation in a more social and cultural context. How has the ownership of land affected its users, as well as its shape and geography?
Through the implementation of Maori design principles, a design process encompassing site and function could be developed. This ultimately led to the conception and refinement of a form that is fit for its contextand its programme.
This project proposes the design for a public branch library of 400sqm in size.
The library will be located near the southern end of Shelly Bay and will be visible and accessible from the main road.
Construction: The High Rise
Following guidelines stated in Guy Marriage’s “Tall”, this three-phase construction project follows the design and in particular construction documentation process of defining the design of a high-rise building. The documentation drawings range from large-scale site plans and structural floor plans of the whole building, to small construction details concerning the materiality and joinery of the building’s structure. The project was split into the phases: the structure, the core and the facade.
Lateral Park
A community-driven park that promotes inclusivity and diversity.
A secluded space to connect with the environment and escape the rush of the city. A place to rest, relax, connect and enjoy.
Animate Network
Following exploration of ant colony and tunnel formations, an investigation of form through biomimicry could be carried out. Project one consisted of altering variables and parameters in pouring wax into water to observe organic and fluids forms that formed in the solidified wax. These forms were then cast into a concrete+plaster mix and left to set before removing the wax, and leaving a negative impression of these tunnels. overall mimicking the forms and qualities of underground networks.
Network: The Social Scaffold
NETWORK aims to collate the processes involved in designing a pavillion-like structure that create a space in which people feel simultaneously surrounded by, and completely detached from, the digital and physical connections of the world around them.
This study was born out of the ashes of crumpled up and burnt drawings depicting conceptual thoughts around the experience of inhabiting Wellington’s Civic Square. As the influence of the Square itself loses momentum, the transient nature of the invisible webs connecting people to place come to the foreground.
Illustrations, diagrams and dreams come together to debate the place for concrete and consience in our interconnected city.
As NETWORK focuses on digital and physical connectivity across the land, both physical and digital technologies have been explored and exploited, and ultimately woven into the formal iterative process to produce a pavillion worth listening to.
House on Onoke
House on Onoke proposes a design for a holiday home near the mouth of Lake Onoke, located in the Wairarapa, New Zealand.
Limited by regional construction materials and the brief requirements of housing a couple and not exceeding 50m2, the design reflects the identity of this area through materiality and form.
The house is composed of an open kitchen and dining space, a small living room and central staircase that climbs up to the bedroom and bathroom. The house is intended to act as a “home away from home” and is modelled with he idea of the Kiwi bach in mind.
