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Welcome to Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation student work showcase. This site showcases our student's best architecture and design work in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation student work showcase

Using charcoal to study the movement of the body.

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Study of the human body

Whakapapa, the ontological and epistemological influence it has, guides me to honour the whakaaro of my tūpuna in the way I work as a designer, in order to create better futures for my mokopuna. This sets me up to create meaningful connections and forge strong, equitable, and impactful solutions, that design with people, not for them. Whakapapa forces us to think in ways that are in contradiction with western intuition. As designers, it requires us to shift away from being the perpetuators of resource exploitation and promulgators of mass consumerism. Instead, it requires us to be kaitiaki of the future.

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Whakapapa in CoDesign

The piece reflects the letter m's historical context of water in Semitic languages. It displays the form's movement replicating a 'double wave' and mimics microscopic water. 

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m, Aa–Z! : a typographic installation 

The house of knowledge uses ‘structure as architecture’ and incorporates nature in to the design, providing a calming and connecting experience for the user. Designing for light was a key aspect of exploration, investigating the close relationship that it hold with architectural form and space. 

Alex Pham

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Study of the human body

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Whakapapa in CoDesign

m, Aa–Z! : a typographic installation

The House of Knowledge

Other Projects

Whakapapa in CoDesign

m, Aa–Z! : a typographic installation

The House of Knowledge