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072hin_DEAD LANDS

Tradition within modern media. Waka Huia investigates the cinematic fabrication of a place today lost in time. History usually doesn’t excite much contemporary interest, unless Game of Thrones-like, it is embroiled with thematics of love, war and honour. Dead Lands is set in a time which proceeded the arrival of European settlement in NZ. That place way over there. Which most of you will never go… so therefore it remains enigmatic. The Deadlands film is an attempt to discover the creation of an ambitiously authentic cinema world that displays Maori language, customs, and martial arts.

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WHAT_architecture 02-Jun-2015
Category: 072hin_Hinemihi | WHAT_projects
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064man_ICEBERG HOUSE

With 048per_The Villameter, we tried a traditional front vs a modern back. With 064man_ we will try a traditional overground vs a modern underground.

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WHAT_architecture 02-Jun-2015
Category: 064man_Iceberg House | WHAT_projects
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256meh_Simpy Fresh Flat

Midnight at the Pera Palace is a long way from Bethnal Green. Yet we can all dream of Ataturk bathroom at the Palace in East London…

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WHAT_architecture 29-May-2015
Category: 256meh_Simply Fresh | WHAT_projects
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048per_NZIA AWARD FOR THE VILLAMETER!

The Villameter! won an NZIA Award and a Resene Colour Award in Auckland… which is paradoxical given that black is techically the absence of all colour!?:) Anyhow the entire team from client to suppliers will take the gong and just paint the town ~~red~~ sorry black, white, blue… So thanks to the clients Michael Pervan, Amy Oding and Benjamin; our local partners Peter Townsend and Eryn Wason of Townsend Architects; a myriad suppliers and finally the WHAT_architecture practice team of: Marc Iglesias, Simon Rosa Perez, Karsh Singh, Adrian Wong, Seung Jong Park, Eiichi Matsuda and Magda… let us know if we forgot anyone!

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WHAT_architecture 28-May-2015
Category: 048per_Villa XX
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179prs_THE GAME OF ARCHITECTURE AS HAIKU

The Game of Poetry. A haiku is a Japanese poem with a rigorous almost game-like structure ruled by seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world. The Haiku Guys and Gals posted us their haiku duel for the Game of Architecture. So who won? Eric: Puzzle of space time, Pieces missing on purpose, And never finished. Lisa: Armed with compass, And a finely tuned angle, I conquer my space

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WHAT_architecture 26-May-2015
Category: 179prs_practice based research | WHAT_projects
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179prs_A TALKING BUILDING

A building that talks to you, literally.

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WHAT_architecture 25-May-2015
Category: 000off_WHAT_process | WHAT_projects
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048per_THE VILLAMETER

The Villameter has been designed and built to the millimetre!

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WHAT_architecture 22-May-2015
Category: 048per_Villa XX
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048per_THE VILLAMETER: A PHOTO ROMAN

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WHAT_architecture 15-May-2015
Category: 048per_Villa XX | WHAT_projects
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064man_ICEBERG HOUSE

Hidden world: how an 'iceberg home' can look.

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WHAT_architecture 14-May-2015
Category: 064man_Iceberg House | WHAT_projects
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255kee_FULL FRONTAL FOTODRAWING

Have a look at the top photograph below: notice anything unusual? There is a high rise building in the distance that appears three times in the photograph… although this could merely mean multiple generic modernist blocks on the East London horizon. The photographic image has been manipulated: it was stitched together in Photoshop and hence the image contains the impossibility of four vanishing points, hence our new ‘three tower estate’ in Bethnal Green visible from Keeling House. Architectural representation used to reside in drawing but today thanks to mobile devices what we understand as the drawing is changing: the architect is today as likely to draw with his camera than with any pen. Indeed thanks to such devices the ‘photographic elevational drawing’ is increasingly common in contemporary practice. WHAT_architecture calls this ‘full frontal fotodrawing’ (FFF) and this is a two step process.

Step 1: capture images in the field. Requires reasonably rigorous ‘in situ’ positioning of the camera perpendicular to the drawing plane.
Step 2: post-production image manipulation: use of photoshop etc for parallax correction

With deep full-frontal-fotodrawings, that is where the elevation has depth due to window reveals, loggias, vistas etc, the FFF will have multiple vanishing points. This is a digital by-product and is a departure from the historic rules of perspective as evident in say Piero della Francesco’s Flagellation of Christ, the world’s greatest small painting (1455-1460).