Saturday, December 25, 2010

Queens Whaft Competition By Parsonson Architects

Auckland’s water landscapes offer the seed for a new kind of sculptural and ecological architecture. Unlike the man-made rectilinear architecture of the city, nature’s geometries are the inspiration for a forest of ‘coral-tube’ structures.
The design utilizes a modular component system of triangulated lightweight elements to ensure that construction and future additions can be quickly and easily achieved using standard components.


Both Event Pavilion and Passenger Terminal structures are based on this lightweight structure of triangulated hexagonal tubes, which are grafted as a new layer onto the wharf foundation. The result is an economic, fast build, adaptable solution.
The landscape is divided into an arrival square, a covered event square and a water square. The water square surface could be cut and folded down to water level providing a variety of possible harbour-side uses. In association with Chris Moller Architecture + Urbanism.....more
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