ilam shed - sketch design

Part of a conceptual proposal undertaken in 2011 for the University of Canterbury 

to revitalise a series of relocatable buildings into a temporary post-quake campus.

Lloyd Hartley’s brief was to create a student-friendly café within this campus that 

doubles as a function space. By extrapolating the shed form of the original building 

an outdoor courtyard was formed beneath a whimsical and ethereal canopy.

christchurch | memorial + resilience + colour

Not far from the site of the CCTV building devastation; 

a poignant and arresting installation of '185 chairs' rest.

The work, by Pete Majendie, pays silent homage to those who lost their lives in the earthquake of February 2011.

This is the installation's second place of repose and is well sited to take in the construction of the Cardboard Cathedral.

The principal driver behind this work is the indomitable Shigeru Ban and I for one, am pleased there is such a display of Christchurch's resilience being carried out.

I look forward to a moment of reflection within what I'm sure will be an exquisite condition of light.

Not far away, in the thick of the concrete jungle, Ash Keating is bringing some serious colour into play with his work concrete propositions.

henceforth...

mike

Sláinte!

unfinished stairs...

'A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, 

regarded from its own point of view, 

only a boring something made of wood.' 

Franz Kafka

Soon to bear witness to a thousand hellos and goodbyes, this almost-complete insertion to an existing Waiheke beach house transforms a previously innocuous entrance into an exhibition space, a promenade and a stage for holiday theatre.