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| Group 1 Perspective of Design Option by Jonathan Cristal |
Third year BLA students from the course Urban Ecology run by Renee Davies produced two very well received design options for the local community group (Onepoto Residents Association - ORA) and Council for a recreational and wetland enhancement project at Onepoto Domain. ORA have chosen a preferred design option which students will now work with Council and ORA to refine and submit to the local Community Board for adoption and staged implementation over time.
The design outcomes can be viewed at the Unitec ISSUU page:
Link to Student Work on Department ISSUU page
The project aims were to prepare a range of design options
for the development of the remaining weed-infested pampas area at Onepoto
Domain.
The intention at
Unitec is that students are integrated into real scenarios that enable them to
explore the principles being taught within the course and apply them in
practical and innovative ways. The
project at Onepoto Domain offered a unique opportunity for students to work
within a real site with ecological challenges and to explore human, plant and
other ecological interactions to develop appropriate design responses.
"The first
lore of ecology is everything is that everything is related to everything
else." Barry
Commoner
The project for Onepoto Domain was developed through a compulsory third year paper titled Urban Ecology. Within this course students explore the
concepts of ecology within the unique urban environment of Cities and what the term Urban Ecology
means and how important an understanding of the interactions and systems that
are a part of our urban environments play in our role as designers.
For the Onepoto
Domain project the students worked with the local community representatives
and experts from Auckland Council and Unitec lecturers to develop a
comprehensive ecological assessment and design outcomes report that identified a way forward for this area of Onepoto Domain.
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