Announcing the F. Gordon Wilson Fellowship shortlist

The Fellowship jury, composed of Judith Taylor, Dr Kay Saville-Smith, Marko den Breems, Julia Gatley and Julia Mandell, was struck by the originality and innovation contained within the proposals, which deal with analysis into options for public housing. They’ve now narrowed the functions to a shortlist of 5 tasks.

“The calibre of entries within the first 12 months of this Fellowship has been actually spectacular,” says jury chair and Te Kāhui Whaihanga, NZIA president, Judith Taylor. “It wasn’t simple attending to a shortlist of 5, however we’re excited to see and listen to extra about every of those shortlisted proposals, and to know higher how they might remodel future public housing tasks in Aotearoa.” 

See beneath for an introduction to every of the shortlisted proposals:

ALAGA

Alaga, a practice-led analysis undertaking devoted to creating regenerative residing environments for Moana Pasifika communities, is the proposal of MOANA LOA, a lately fashioned collective of Moana Pasifika architectural practitioners. The group, made up of Albert Refiti, Charmaine ‘Ilaiū, Rau Hoskins, Joanna Jack, Elyjana Roache and Tau Lelaulu are dedicated to addressing the housing inequities affecting their communities. Their undertaking proposes to develop design frameworks, a spread of housing typologies, and an accessible platform that amplifies the work of Moana Pasifika housing organisations in Aotearoa.

Changing Carpark Buildings to Inexpensive Housing and Helpful Group Areas

Reusing outdated buildings is an affordable, low-impact method of making new areas for brand spanking new wants. Invoice McKay’s proposal investigates the feasibility of adaptive reuse of automobile parking buildings in central cities which can be getting used much less and will grow to be inexpensive properties. It’s a change that has been achieved abroad and might be executed right here; this undertaking will create sensible pointers on how we will create new, inexpensive housing in these areas, by sensible architectural design.

Radical Retrofit

A proposal from pre:fab collective places ahead a radical refit of present low-density residential constructing inventory to create public housing in inner-city and satellite-centre suburbs of Tāmaki Makaurau. This deal with new methods present housing inventory may be modified to accommodate a spread of denser housing situations is mixed with investigating possession and growth fashions in in any other case low occupancy areas. Workforce members within the collective embody Tessa Forde, Simon Glaister, Leonard Hobbins, Sakina Ali, Joseph Bjelic-Webster, Vanessa Coxhead, Nick Denton, Hannah Broatch, Mason Rattray and Isaac Sweetapple.

The Worth of What We Worth

Elyjana Roach and Yun Fu counsel that the dialog round public housing must be made extra public to have larger influence. They suggest that surveys and interviews with New Zealanders about housing, a collection of editorials sharing the analysis obtained, a public travelling exhibition and a ebook about The Worth of What We Worth might be a vital part in how we alter public housing.

In the direction of Public Housing that Proactively Adapts to the Impacts of Local weather Change 

The principals of Third Studio, Ellie Tuckey and Mitra Homolja, have focussed their proposal on the general public housing constructed on Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai, Aotearoa’s most densely populated flood plain. By enterprise interviews and workshops with native iwi, environmental innovators, Kāinga Ora personnel and Ministry of Housing and City Growth key personnel, the pair intend to analyze round economic system building strategies which may enable public housing within the space to proactively adapt to the impacts of local weather change 

The inaugural recipient/s of the Fellowship can be introduced on the New Zealand Structure Awards on November sixteenth.

To be taught extra concerning the F. Gordon Wilson Fellowship for Public Housing click on right here.