Food for Thought, Melanie Pau, Onehunga Primary School (2012)

Food for Thought, Melanie Pau, Onehunga Primary School (2012)

Food for Thought, Melanie Pau, Onehunga Primary School (2012)

Food for Thought, Melanie Pau, Onehunga Primary School (2012)

Food for Thought, Melanie Pau, Onehunga Primary School (2012)

Food for Thought, Melanie Pau, Onehunga Primary School (2012)

Food for Thought, Melanie Pau, Onehunga Primary School (2012)

Food for Thought, Melanie Pau, Onehunga Primary School (2012)

Food for Thought, Melanie Pau, Onehunga Primary School (2012)

Food for Thought, Melanie Pau, Onehunga Primary School (2012)

Food for Thought, Melanie Pau, Onehunga Primary School (2012)

Food for Thought, Melanie Pau, Onehunga Primary School (2012)

Furniture to Architecture & Reinterpreting Transit, Yusef Patel & Sam Wood, Onehunga Primary School (2013)

Furniture to Architecture & Reinterpreting Transit, Yusef Patel & Sam Wood, Onehunga Primary School (2013)

Furniture to Architecture & Reinterpreting Transit, Yusef Patel & Sam Wood, Onehunga Primary School (2013)

Furniture to Architecture & Reinterpreting Transit, Yusef Patel & Sam Wood, Onehunga Primary School (2013)

Furniture to Architecture, Yusef Patel, Onehunga Primary School (2013)

Furniture to Architecture, Yusef Patel, Onehunga Primary School (2013)

Reinterpreting Transit, Sam Wood, Onehunga Primary School (2013)

Reinterpreting Transit, Sam Wood, Onehunga Primary School (2013)

Reinterpreting Transit, Sam Wood, Onehunga Primary School (2013)

Reinterpreting Transit, Sam Wood, Onehunga Primary School (2013)

Learning Kiosk, Zhengbang Liu, Henderson High School (2014)

Learning Kiosk, Zhengbang Liu, Henderson High School (2014)

Learning Kiosk, Zhengbang Liu, Henderson High School (2014)

Learning Kiosk, Zhengbang Liu, Henderson High School (2014)

Learning Kiosk, Zhengbang Liu, Henderson High School (2014)

Learning Kiosk, Zhengbang Liu, Henderson High School (2014)

Diverting Waste, Patricia Balbas, Henderson High School (2014)

Diverting Waste, Patricia Balbas, Henderson High School (2014)

Multifunction Pavilion, Louie Tong, Henderson High School (2015)

Multifunction Pavilion, Louie Tong, Henderson High School (2015)

Multifunction Pavilion, Louie Tong, Henderson High School (2015)

Multifunction Pavilion, Louie Tong, Henderson High School (2015)

Multifunction Pavilion, Louie Tong, Henderson High School (2015)

Multifunction Pavilion, Louie Tong, Henderson High School (2015)

Citizens' Science Lab, Charlotte Farqhuarson, Henderson High School (2015)

Citizens' Science Lab, Charlotte Farqhuarson, Henderson High School (2015)

Timber Research Structures

Plywood series

At the University of Auckland School of Architecture & Planning, Andrew collaborates with postgraduate students in the research and development of innovative timber construction techniques.

The program began in 2012, when a group of 20 students in fourth year of the five-year Master of Architecture (Professional) degree program assisted with the construction of a design produced by a final year ‘thesis’ student. The year-long thesis project was a timber shelter designed by Melanie Pau to improve safety and visibility at a primary school in Onehunga, and was an aesthetically and technologically innovative design that stretched the capacity of the University’s CNC technology and workshops. In the following year, the program produced two further shelters for Onehunga Primary School. The new course structure is now firmly established at the School, with junior and senior students working together each year to design and realize innovative timber buildings.

This program has now been running for 11 years and completed 19 structures for schools, churches, and parks. Subsequent structures in the program have focussed on the use of solid timber, and we are now working closely with Summerhill Park. The project has been supported by industry, with many partners donating or providing discounts on materials and services. The projects have sought innovations of various kinds—the creation of structural variety with repetitive timber elements or joints, the development of innovative timber structural systems, and the use of CNC milling to create new jointing timber techniques—and have received a number of international and national awards.

2012 Food for Thought, Melanie Pau

2013 Furniture to Architecture Yusef Patel

2013 Reinterpreting Transit, Sam Wood

2014 Learning Kiosk, Zhengbang Liu

2014 Diverting Waste, Patricia Balbas

2015 Multifunction Pavilion, Louie Tong

2015 Citizens’ Science Lab, Charlotte Farqhuarson

 

RECOGNITION

Scott Lofgren Structural Design Award, 2013 Bentley Systems Awards for Food for Thought

Gold Pin, 2013 Best Awards for Food for Thought

Scott Lofgren Structural Design Award, 2014 Bentley Systems Awards for Furniture to Architecture & Reinterpreting Transit

Gold Pin, 2014 Best Awards for Furniture to Architecture & Reinterpreting Transit

Highly Commended (Outdoor Infrastructure category), 2014 NZ Timber Design Awards for Food for Thought

Finalist (Exterior Innovation category), 2015 NZ Timber Design Awards for Furniture to Architecture & Reinterpreting Transit

Finalist (Exterior Innovation category), 2015 NZ Timber Design Awards for Learning Kiosk

Finalist, 2016 Best Awards for Multifunction Pavilion

Winner (Student Category), 2017 NZ Timber Design Awards for Multifunction Pavilion

LOCATION Onehunga Primary School, Auckland; Henderson High School, Auckland

YEARS 2012-2015

PROJECT TEAM Andrew Barrie, Melanie Pau, Yusef Patel, Sam Wood, Zhengbang Liu, Patricia Balbas, Louie Tong, Charlotte Farqhuarson

CONSULTANTS Structural Engineer: John Chapman

PHOTOGRAPHY Patrick Reynolds, Ivelina Velkova, Zhengbang Liu, Yusef Patel