000off_Forthcoming WHAT_architecture publication

Forthcoming WHAT_architecture publication with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology…

072hin_HINEMIHI CONSTRUCTION COMPONENTS

072hin_Hinemihi Matariki


Thanks to Skyla Love, Rihari Keane and Ngati Ranana Media.

072hin_Channel Surrey

What’s a historic Maori meeting house doing in Clandon Park?  Visitors to the National Trust stately home are often bewildered to see a traditional New Zealand Maori meeting house sitting in the grounds. The story behind Hinemihi, the house which has survived a volcano, a sea journey, and hundreds of Surrey winters, is fascinating and surprising. Channel Surrey reporter Jenny pays a visit to find out why Hinemihi has become so important to the county.

072hin_THE INVISIBLE BUILDING

Unlike the formal prominence of this example, a whare manaaki constructed from glass and grass could merge, indeed disappear, into the English landscape.

072hin_POP UP CANOPY PRECURSORS!

101009_Pecha Kucha

Pecha Kucha is an lecture format gaining worldwide currency. Instead of being bored to death by the 120minute monologue of the architect as presenter, Pecha Kucha is multiple presenters showing just 20 slides, each lasting 20 seconds. For the Nga Aho (a network of Maori design professionals) 2010 symposium, WHAT_architecture presented the ‘paint-by-numbers’ Hinemihi public workshop as a Pecha Kucha. That is one paint-by-number acrylic painting was transformed into a 20-colour Pecha Kucha palette: an polychromatic-aural presentation of 20 slides accompanied by 20 voice recordings!!

Maori Architecture Conference

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Trees are the canvas of carving.

100708_a pop-up performance space!

In front of the historic building is a pop-up performance space! That is to say, a high-tech carbon fibre structure that spring loads into a 100sqm temporary awning. This a tent-in-a-bag erectable by one woman!