Week 14 Second and third year

Hi all,

hopefully you have all enjoyed the two workshops over the last four weeks. Here is what is happening next week, an opportunity to review and reflect on your work from this year. There is also some information on important dates coming up. Lets make this last week of studio really useful and productive for everyone and then relax! Just one final reminder, the admin team have asked me to remind you that enrollments for 2008 are open online and classes are filling up fast!

Cheers,
Kathy

Monday 5 November:
2nd year students
tutorials for both studio and drawing with Lotte, please see schedule on her office door.
3rd year students
10:15 meet in room 1159 (the fridge) for a presentation by the Hot House, which is a collaborative design studio that you may want to take part in next year. This is a chance to find out about Hot House projects so that you have time over the summer to consider if this is for you! After that we will start individual tutorials.(See schedule Kathy's office door).
All students
Some time on Monday (not when the HH presentation is on), you should all load your animation into the folder on the desktop of the computer in room 1159. Directions for this are below. This is so that we can have a screening on Tuesday (and so that we can include your animation in your assessment).

Tuesday 6 November:
2nd year students
carry on with organising your studio and drawing work for presentation.
3rd year students
Individual tutorials with Kathy and Lotte continue (see schedule Kathy's office door)
All students
Animation screening! 12:30 in the fridge! Come and see the work of all your mates!

Thursday 8 November:
All students
Kathy and Lotte both available for individual tutorials, sign up sheets will be on our office doors.

Monday 12 November:
All students
Make sure all your work for drawing and studio is ready in your studio spaces by 9:30am for assessment.

Tuesday 20 November:
1:00pm - 7:00pm All students remove work and personal items from studio spaces, drawers and lockers. It is really important that you do this as all furniture will be moved from these spaces from early the next morning for the grad show. If you cannot get in at this time make sure you ask someone else to take your work away for you.

Instructions for handing in your animation work:
A folder called ‘INTERIOR DESIGN ANIMATIONS’ will be set up on the desktop of the Computer in Rm 1159. (PASSWORD TO LOG-ON : "design")

Could all students copy their published animation file to this folder. Please only copy your published QuickTime movie, do not put your working files in this folder.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Render them as Quicktimes using the Soreson Video 3 codec.

Please name the file with your name and year group (e.g. JONATHAN, THIRD YEAR). All animations should also have your name in the tile or credits of the movie.

It is very important that you copy your published movie to this folder as it will be partly assessed during the screening next week.

If you have any trouble publishing your work Jill has kindly offered to help you via email: : jill.wills@gmail.com

Rachel Whiteread works

As we discussed in our casting class today.

Books in our library:
Rachel Whiteread
Whiteread, Rachel, 1963-

Publisher:	Haunch of Venison,
Pub date:	c2002.

709.2 WHI

Rachel Whiteread : Shedding life
Whiteread, Rachel, 1963-

Publisher:	Tate Pub.,
Pub date:	{1996}

709.2 WHI

House
Whiteread, Rachel, 1963-

Publisher:	Phaidon,
Pub date:	1995.

730.92 WHI

Hobby suppliers

Some of you have been having trouble finding specialty model making shops. Here is a list from around Auckland, including one in the Pt Chev shops. Although these shops supply kits for train/plane/tank model makers they also supply tools and materials that can be of much use to you all.

Speedi Models Ltd
09-815 3831
1197 Great North Rd Point Chevalier Auckland

Hobby City
09-309 3535
Shop 4, 8 Quay St Auckland

Airsail International Ltd
09-579 6052
3 Prescott St Penrose Auckland

Modelair
09-520 1236
12 Kent Street Newmarket Auckland

The Model Shop
09-827 6527
Unit 3/ 18 Clark St New Lynn Auckland

TopMark Products
09-580 2488
Unit 4 136 Marua Rd Ellerslie Auckland

Moldmaking, Casting supplies & SpecialFX material, Clays, Silicones, Urethanes, Sculpting tools, Books & accessories.

Hobby Direct Ltd
09-361 1333
135 Great North Rd Grey Lynn Auckland

Museum Supplies
09-309 3222
Victoria Park Market 210 Victoria St West Auckland Central Auckland

Global Craft
09-974 3912
692 Richardson Rd Hillsborough Auckland

Auckland Architecture Week -NEXT WEEK

Next week is a very busy one for all of us because its Auckland Architecture Week and there are loads of great events happening around the city. Take a look at the programme on http://architectureweek.co.nz/

Highlights include:

TRAIN TOUR TO NEW LYNN & WAITAKERE CITY (Visit the libraries with the architects and ask all those tricky questions!)

Saturday 13th October. Departure from Britomart Station,
assemble at 9am. Returns to Britomart by 2pm
Tours hosted by the architects of the New Lynn Library (Moller
Architects), and Waitakere Central and Library (Architectus and
Athfield Architects). Plus external walk round of the New Lynn
Community Centre.

12 YEARS OF HOME + ENTERTAINING

HOME OF THE YEAR WINNERS

Eon Design Centre, New Showroom:
16 Customs Street East, phone 368 4860
Hours: Monday-Friday 9–5pm
Compare stunning houses which have won New Zealand’s most
prestigious housing award over the past 12 years.

URBAN SPOILER CONSTRUCTIONS

Location: Britomart Square, all week.
City workers and passers-by will enjoy watching the future
stars of architecture transform the Britomart Precinct with their
project, which will see Architectural and Design students from
the University of Auckland , AUT and Unitec build three full scale
sculptural pavilions from scaffolding materials.

FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER

12.30pm – Home New Zealand/Fletcher Aluminium
Home of the Year Lecture Series
Gerald Melling, Melling Morse Architects, Wellington.
Four-time Home of the Year finalist Gerald Melling of Melling Morse
Architects discusses the practice’s unique architectural style, their
favourite homes, and the perils of being pigeonholed as the “thrifty”
architects.

8.20pm – Pecha Kucha evening
This event consists of entertaining, rapid-fire presentations by artists,
craftspeople, architects, designers, photographers and others.
www.pechakucha.co.nz

Spring Drinks!

Hi all,

lets all have a drink together on Monday 8 October (the first day back) at 5pm to celebrate being in the last quarter of our school year. We have all been working really hard and it would be nice to start the last part of the year and celebrate spring with some fun and frivolity.

We can get together in the courtyard by the cafe. I will get the BBQ going and cook dinner if you all bring a few liquid refreshments!

In the meantime wishing you all a good, productive and safe break. On that note check out this link Jonathan sent us all on how to be a "Sustainable Student", it has a some great tips! http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/09/08/living-sustainably-as-a-design-student/

Cheers, Kathy

Foodspace: 2+3 year studio

Sign up times next week 10-14 September:

Please note that Lotte's sign up times next week will be slightly altered. Her sign up slot will be Monday 10 September 3:00 - 5:00pm and Tuesday morning 9:30-10:30am. Lotte will not be available on Wednesday. Studio group meetings will operate as usual and Kathy's sign up slot on Thursday 13 September will also operate as usual.

Movie Night Fundraiser 'THE TATTOOIST'

Movie night! Raising Funds for the 4th year interior students' end of year show.

'THE TATTOOIST'
dir Peter Burger (NZ)

Monday 3rd of September
8:30pm in Skycity Cinemas St Lukes.
Tickets are $15, available every day this week and Monday next week, 12:00-1:00, from the student gallery next to Long Black cafe in building 1 OR from any interior 4th year students (who can be found in the ground floor of the west wing, bldg 1).

See the trailer:
http://www.flicks.co.nz/trailer.php?movieid=688

Synopsis:
American tattoo artist Jake Sawyer (Jason Behr) wanders the world, exploring and exploiting ethnic themes in his tattoo designs. At a tattoo expo in Singapore, he gets his first glimpse at the exotic world of traditional Samoan tattoo (tatau), and, in a thoughtless act, unwittingly unleashes a powerful angry spirit. In his devastating journey into Pacific mysticism, Jake must find a way to save his new love, Sina (Mia Blake) and recover his own soul.

Foodspace: 2+3 year studio

Just to confirm; the following texts are still on desk copy/short loan in the building 1 library.

Eating architecture, Jamie Horwitz, MIT Press, 2004. (on desk copy)
Food + Architecture, Karen A Franck ed., AD, vol 72, no 6, Nov/Dec 2002 (on desk copy)
Food + the City, Karen A Franck ed., AD, vol 75, no 3, May/June 2005 (on desk copy)

Just make sure that you that you ask for them by the right name.
Cheers
Kathy

Attention 4th year students

Please clean up the kitchen . . . I cleaned it when you were all on holiday, I even took all of the tea towels home and washed then . . . its your turn now! And please put the drawing board into a storage space if it is not going back into someone's studio space.
Cheers
Kathy

Foodspace: 2+3 year studio

Crits Monday 20 August

Hello, we have our FOODPACE crits on Monday. These will take place in two groups, one being in the fridge (room 1159) and the other in the interior seminar room (next to second year). The crits will commence at 10.00 sharp. We are giving you 9:30-10:00 to pin up and get equipment ready so that we don't have any issues with people moving around and being distracting while the crits are underway. On Monday morning there will be a crit schedule up outside my office so that you can see which space you are in and when you are having your crit. If you haven't already please let me know if you require any equipment for your crit - this will help me to determine which room you should be in. I have booked data projectors for the crit so no need to arrange these yourself.

We will be introducing the second part of the Foodspace project on Tuesday morning in studio.

Looking forward to seeing you all on Monday,
Kathy

Best Awards Finalists

The Designers Institute of New Zealand Best Awards Finalists have been announced and I am thrilled to let you all know that three of our students have made it into the finals for the student spatial category. Eric Zu (left) and Judy Gudgeon (center) are finalists for their MASH projects and Yeong Ju Chegal (right) for her Natura Morta project. Well done, we are really proud of you and wish you all the best for the awards. There are nine finalists in this category and three of them are from our programme! You can find out more about the awards at http://www.bestawards.co.nz/

Studio changes next week:

Hello all,

due to some unforeseen circumstances I will not be able to be on campus next Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th August. To make sure that you all still get studio contact time I have made the following arrangements:

My 9:30 Monday group will join with Lotte and Jacqui's 9:30 Monday groups as follows:
Montri, Candice, Rika and Claire join Lotte's group
Laimun, Joline, Vicki and Michael join Jacqui's group


My 9:30 Tuesday group will have their studio session shifted to 9:30 Wednesday (same place as usual). If you cannot attend on Wednesday because of work commitments please come on Monday and join one of the other groups.

Wednesday 9:30 - Lotte will have sign up time as usual
Thursday 9:30 - I will have sign up time as usual

My apologies for these late changes. I am happy for you to email me (at the latest by 4pm Wednesday) to set up a tutorial time on Thursday if you are not able to sign up outside my office.

Have a good weekend cooking, eating, video-ing, recording, observing, timing . . .

Ka kite
Kathy

Building 1 Library Hours

From Monday (13th August) next week we'll be back to normal opening
hours, i.e. until 8 p.m. Monday - Thursday.

Ani O’Neill, Artists Talk

Tuesday August 7th 2pm
Rm1- 1147
by Long Black Café & Gallery







pacific sisters…… cuckoo collective…… site-specific…… installation art…… craft-based materials…… performance…… video…… collaborative works…… She uses her knowledge of traditional weaving and tivaevae (quilt making) to produce installation works such as crocheted wool circles, …… Playful, seductive, and defiantly user-friendly…… Lusciously colored and joyfully asetheticised…… recipient of the Rita Angus Fellowship…… Ani O’Neill is a sculptor who brilliantly transforms everyday materials into poetic evocations of cultural reality……






Ani O’Neill is available for Tutorials after the talk … to arrange contact Lisareihana@unitec.ac.nz

Restricted Building 1 Library Hours, Semester 2

Message from Peter Hughes, Unitec Library Director:
From Monday 23 July the Building One Library will close at 6:00pm
Monday to Thursday, instead of 8:00pm.
Friday hours and weekend hours will remain unchanged.
We will regularly review this change to hours.

(If you are concerned about this I suggest that you register your concern in the appropriate manner, Kathy)

Architecture Lectures Thursday at Lunchtime

We have a fantastic line-up of seminars for next term 3 and we know you won't want to miss any of them! They are as follows and further details (including locations) can be obtained from http://architecture.unitec.ac.nz

Thurs 26th July 2007, 12.30-1.30pm
Dr Rodney Wilson, Noel Lane and Chris Mackenzie will be presenting "Afternoon at the Museum: The architectural re-vamping of Auckland War Memorial Museum".
Please note this seminar will be held in the new auditorium of the museum. Details on how to find it are given on our website (click on link above). The auditorium seats 196, which is lucky as this seminar in which the Museum Director, Project Architect and Project Engineer will discuss the project, is bound to be popular. This is a first for the seminar series, holding a site-specific seminar and we're really excited about it.

Thurs 9th August 2007, 12.30-1.30pm
Cesar Wagner will be presenting a seminar entitled "Responsive Landscape: The work of Roberto Burle Marx".
Who better to discuss the impressive work of the well known landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, than a native Brazilian. Cesar lectures in architecture at Unitec and is comfortable making the crossover into the garden genre. This is a must for all those who enjoy colour and luxuriant plants, artfully designed and combined into magical landscapes.

Thurs 23rd August 2007, 12.30-1.30pm
Gavin Lister, director of Isthmus Group, Landscape Architects will present a seminar based on his recent Urban Design Masters studies, called "Urban Neighbourhoods".
Gavin's seminar will focus on the ideal position of landscape architects to lead urban design and bring together design and broad scale planning. This is a significant role for the profession and an important seminar for all those with an interest in urban design.

All seminars are free and open to the public. We look forward to welcoming you to any or all of these seminars. Venue locations are given on the website.

4th year self-directed project

Hi all,
just a gentle reminder that the first draft of your brief for your self-directed project is due next Monday 25 June. Please either print a copy and slide under my office door or send it to me via email. If you are "floundering" in your search for a topic consider drawing a project out of the research that you undertook for your 7440 theory paper.
Kind regards and happy holidays,
Kathy

BANANAS NZ GOING GLOBAL

18 -19 August
This conference is a must for all Asian/Chinese New Zealanders and Asian students in New Zealand. It is organised by the New Zealand Chinese Association.
I went last year and highly recommend it.
Check the website for speakers & student discount rates.
www.goingbananas.org.nz

Jacqui

Copy Center Hours

The Copy Centre will be open extended hours for 2
evenings next week
Thursday 14th June 8:30am - 7pm
Friday 15th June 8:30am - 7pm.

The Book Place studio (3+4 years)

Some general feedback from crits today.

We were very fortunate to have such great critics today, so thanks to Anet Kuhla and Bill McKay for joining us and being so generous with their attention and comments. (Those of you who chose not to attend these crits very much missed out!) Those who were there for the whole session saw the value in actively participating in a crit. I very much appreciated the sustained attention of the 4th year group that I was with.

Here are some very general comments that may apply to many of you, especially in terms of thinking about communicating your projects in effective and thoughtful ways.

• Remember to communicate the site, this helps to locate the project and its context. So, show the roads, the connection to the rest of the building, the school across the road etc
• Many of the plans and sections were very abstract. Remember that all drawings can show material and atmospheric qualities such as light etc. Alternately, you might use colour in plans as a symbolic element, using colour as a code to identify key aspects.
  
• Also, use notation, writing, a key or a legend to help orientate viewers in your drawings.
• We tend to read left to right. Use this fact to structure the presentation of your project.
• Use thickness and weight of line appropriately in drawings. For example, concrete should read as thicker and heavier than glass! Using variations of line weight also makes for a punchier and more interesting drawing.
• Read the "communication" assessment criteria!
• Remember that the library is also a workspace, consider how the workers are accommodated in your design.
• Have you forgotten about signage and lighting?
• Are you effectively communicating the experience of being in the space?
• Do your sections reveal a lack of consideration as to what is above?
• Where are services (cabling, air con etc) accommodated?
• Have you forgotten to address interior linings, that is, what do the interior walls look like?
• What is it like to look out of this building?
• What is the experience of looking into this building?
• Is it important to communicate aspects of TIME in your particular project?
  

I will be available for brief tutorials about your projects on Monday from 9:30am. I will put a sign up sheet on my office door, book in and I will come and find you in studio. In these tutorials you should come prepared to ask me specific questions about your project and/or the communication of your project, I don't intend to ask you how you are going!
Good luck!
Kathy