Model Citizens 2022 lights up Auckland Architecture Week

This was the second in-person version of the Mannequin Residents occasion and this time the groups have been tasked with making a suspended mild impressed by a celebrated constructing of their selection, utilizing solely the supplies provided on the evening. Groups from numerous structure practices assembled on Thursday 15 September at Kada’s showroom in Parnell to take up the problem.

Provides readily available have been all recyclable or reusable to create a zero waste occasion. Supplies included totally different color palettes of  Resene drawdowns separated by sheets of butter paper, wire, plain paper, an LED mild strip and numerous tapes and fastenings. (Bartering and bribery between groups was permitted).

Resene supplied bins of M&Ms and Kada ready scrumptious canapés after which later Toto’s Pizza to maintain the groups centered and an open bar for encouragement and inspiration. After a briefing from the organisers, the groups had a mere 2.5 hours to assemble their suspended mild and put together a 90-second presentation, explaining their creation to the jury.

Though the competitors was to be taken light-heartedly, we might have made the entrants slightly sweaty with the jury choice this 12 months. On the jury was Andrew Barrie (distinguished tutorial, author and professor on the College of Auckland), multi-award-winning and celebrated lighting designer David Trubridge and Editor of ArchitectureNow, Jacinda Rogers.

Within the spirit of the competitors, groups have been requested to give you a crew title (though the profitable groups determined to deal with what they have been doing). Bonus factors went to groups ‘Comedian SANNZ’ (SANNZ), ‘WaMchester United’ (Warren and Mahoney) and ‘Ministry’s Subsequent High Mannequin’ (Ministry of Structure+Interiors).

Credit score for showmanship should be given to SGA who performed opera music whereas presenting their mild impressed by the Sydney Opera Home, Warren and Mahoney for the bells that rung out throughout the presentation of their Christchurch Cathedral-inspired mild, and SANNZ, whose speaker wore a sails headpiece and tried to embody the Sydney Opera Home at evening.

The jury had solely quarter-hour to deliberate after the groups’ displays, with prime factors being given to groups whose designs referenced their chosen constructing most efficiently, for technical and aesthetic success and the groups’ displays. Bonus factors went to designs the place the therapy of sunshine was most thought of.

Particular mentions got to Ministry of Structure+Interiors for his or her two-piece design which included motion by way of a pulley system, Architectus for his or her angular, asymmetrical design impressed by Futuna Chapel’s stained-glass home windows, Athfield Architects for his or her buoyant and delicate long-drop-inspired mild and SANNZ for the gusto behind their presentation.

Woods Bagot’s Cardboard Cathedral-inspired design received the Resene Color Award (though solely delicately colored utilizing pigment by some means extracted from the M&Ms), because of the stunning subtle mild the rolled butter paper kind supplied, the direct reference to recycled and sustainable supplies used of their reference constructing and the superb presentation given. They ended up with an aesthetically pleasing and significant suspended mild, so nicely accomplished Woods Bagot.

Taking out the highest prize this 12 months was Structure + Ladies NZ, who by sheer coincidence ended up with a number of pink drawdown playing cards to work with. The constructing that impressed their mild was La Muralle Roha, by Ricardo Bofill. Their profitable design was a rectilinear kind comprised of layered card in numerous shades of pink, with cut-outs that created small apertures by to curated scenes which gave it a multi-dimensional look. The sunshine that escaped by the cardboard cut-outs was a intelligent resolution to the opaque materials supplied.

The tip consequence was a curious mild shade that mirrored La Muralle Roha very nicely, was aesthetically pleasing and had a lantern-like therapy of sunshine. A heat congratulations!

See under for photographs of every mild the groups created and the above slideshow for highlights from the occasion.

SWOT Workforce: Athfield Architects
Athfield Architects have been the primary to current with ‘The Lengthy Drop’. A design reminiscent of a basic Kiwi back-country vernacular and the inhabitants of these locations (human and bug)!

A Workforce: SGA
Impressed by Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera Home, SGA used sail shapes with a splash of 2022’s color of the 12 months (purple) to create this dramatic design, becoming of the placing constructing. Opera music was performed throughout their presentation for impact.

Workforce Structure + Ladies NZ
Congrats to Structure + Ladies NZ, who took house the Mannequin Residents trophy for his or her mild shade design impressed by La Muralle Roha by Ricardo Bofill. They nailed it!

irRESPONDsible: Reply Architects
The crew from Reply Architects created a lightweight impressed by The Swiss Re Constructing aka ‘The Gherkin’ by Norman Foster. The design, a deconstructed iteration of this tower in London.

Ministry’s Subsequent High Mannequin: Ministry of Structure+Interiors
Ministry’s Subsequent High Mannequin obtained some oohs and ahhs from the gang with their mild impressed by Bruder Klaus Discipline Chapel by Peter Zumthor. They put a singular New Zealand spin on their design by referencing the pīwakawaka’s (fantail’s) function within the Māori delusion telling of Māui’s try to beat dying, which failed attributable to a fantail’s actions. The sunshine inside aspect passes in and away from the fantail-shaped shade, alluding to the cycle of life and dying which continues attributable to this manu.

A Workforce: Architectus
The ‘A Workforce’ created a lightweight that was impressed by John Scott’s Futuna Chapel. The colors have been paying homage to the chapel’s stained glass home windows and the dynamic, asymmetrical kind was impressed by the angular areas throughout the constructing.

Workforce Woods Bagot
The winners of the Resene Color Award (they transferred delicate colors to the paper utilizing M&Ms supplied by Resene). Their mild shade was impressed by Shigeru Ban’s Cardboard Cathedral. Constructed utilizing waste product paper, the design represents people coming collectively to do one thing larger, drawing a parallel to what’s wanted to combat the local weather disaster.

WaMchester United: Warren and Mahoney
Impressed by the stained glass home windows of Christchurch Cathedral by Sir George Gilbert Scott (and not too long ago reinstated by Warren and Mahoney); the materiality impressed by Cardboard Cathedral by Shigeru Ban. Cathedral bell sound results rang out throughout their presentation.

Bits of Every thing: Context Architects, in affiliation with Kada
Context Architects joined forces with Kada to create this mild impressed by Patterson Associates’ Len Lye Centre and the Vitra Nuage vase by the Bouroullec Bros. The colors characterize the Māori, Aboriginal and Pacific artwork showcased within the Govett-Brewster Artwork Gallery.

Comedian SANNZ: SANNZ
Workforce ‘Comedian SANNZ’ was additionally impressed by the Sydney Opera Home designed by Jørn Utzon. They envisioned a colourised model utilizing vibrant colors that mirrored its oceanside, city location.

This 12 months’s Mannequin Residents occasion raised $3000 for SolarAid and will present 375 photo voltaic lights to sub-Saharan Africa, serving to the organisation attain 2023 individuals, saving households cash and giving youngsters additional research time. It would additionally assist lower CO2 emissions and permit individuals to guide more healthy lives.

Many because of the Mannequin Residents sponsors, Resene and Kada, for their help.