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Final Concept Renders

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Concept in Digital Test

Playing around with the placement and colors.

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Tree Light Model

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Ethnicity in Lower Hutt

https://profile.idnz.co.nz/hutt/ethnic-group

http://archive.stats.govt.nz/Census/2013-census/profile-and-summary-reports/quickstats-about-a-place.aspx?request_value=14433&parent_id=14394&tabname=&p=y&printall=true

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Lighting Research

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A3 Printouts for Discussion 

Feedback - 

- Interesting Design.

- Implementation of Culture Diversity to further the project?

- Purpose of the lighting, meaning, names, messages/wishes?

- Bringing people to be part of history.

- Chinese Bell/ Wishing Bell, the sound of the bell signifies the connection to the area.

- Meaning of Sizes of light, represents different ethnicity of the area?

- Different color displays a different ethnicity, signifying the beauty of cultural diversity.

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Physical Modelling Test #2

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Physical Modelling Test

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Sketches

Basing the sketches on the history when William Wakefield first settled on the Hutt River which was located by the Hutt River. Andrews Avenue was once a forest to which we are implementing the idea of bringing people through the experience of when Wakefield first discovered the place. This leads people through this fairy tale space, a space of the unknown.

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Feedback

- Instead of just providing Shelter from the wind, what else can be considered?

- How can you make the space of Andrew Avenue special?

- Why are the design designed in that way? What is the meaning behind each design? Is there a way to make it more interesting?

- What people need and what people want is different.

- What is the purpose/ point of the design?

- Design-driven by a narrative/ story.

- Making Andrew Ave to what it can become, not what It is used to be.

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Concept Sketches

Image One - Implementing lighting into the space during night time, in turn attracting people to the space and allowing street performers and other events to be held and so giving the space a reason for people around the area to come and socialize.

Image Two - Turning the space into a more colorful space to attract the attention of passersby. Turning what was once a boring space into a positive one, incorporating more seatings as well as added some more greenery to represent the idea of turning the space into a small public park. 

Image Three - Providing seatings of oddly shaped seatings which were inspired by the structures of around the space and turning that into small-scaled seatings with different colors to convey the idea of it being positive space.

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Precedents Research

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Precedents Research

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Interview - Feedbacks of Andrews Ave

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The history of settlement in Lower Hutt

Over 150 years ago, the valley we know as Hutt was covered in dense forest and swamp, rich in native birdlife.

Two waterways ran through the forest, entering the sea on the eastern side of Pito-one Beach. The pa Hikoikoi stood there. At the other end of the beach was Pito-one pa and an older pa, Tatau-o-te-po.

Pito-one pa chief, Honiana Te Puni Kokupu (Te Puni) and Te Wharepouri welcomed the New Zealand Company on board the Tory in 1839. William Wakefield (the company's Principal Agent) had his plans for a settlement with him. The plans were drawn up in England, showing a grid-like street structure with a river running through it. The plans were soon abandoned, but Wakefield negotiated with Te Puni and Te Wharepouri to allow settlers to live on land surrounding the harbor.

The first immigrant ship - the Aurora arrived on 22 January 1840. Maori from the nearby pa helped settlers build their homes on Pito-one Beach. These settlers established New Zealand's first bank and newspaper.

Subsequent settlers formed two distinct settlements. One of these began the town of Britannia which was located further inland from the beach and peaked at 1,000 inhabitants.

Within months of settling, the growing settlement was flooded by the Hutt River. Wakefield wanted to move the settlement to Thorndon on the far side of the harbor. The settlement moved, with only a few remaining at Petone (a corruption of Pito-one) to take up farming amidst a constant threat of flooding.

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Site Analysis - Lilian

Image One - Context of the areas such as Trees, Road, Parking Space, etc

Image Two - Context of the location of site and the access points of the roads

Image Three - Context of Grass and Benches

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Site Photos - Bobber