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Students create living roof design concept for Auckland Museum

Here are a selection of final images and drawings to complete the work on the Auckland Museum living roof project started in 2012 in ArchGen721 a course run in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland.

Though the Museum was primarily interested in the green roof at the outset of this project they also had overall concerns about the efficiency of the museum envelope. We took a whole building approach, evaluating it through Louis Kahn's metaphors as an integrated biological system. We also included the cultural space and the idea of flow and attraction because the museum is under patronised which is not extrinsic to the question of sustainability.

The design objectives were to open up the space to reclaim both the natural ventilation and light design, rediscover external and internal vistas of the heritage exterior spaces of the building, and obviously reveal the dramatic panorama of the surrounding cityscape. We wanted the building to become an integrated part of the urban fabric and not the solitary sentinel on the hill. We wanted it to be a living environment and a place you could move through on the way to somewhere else, so that there were multiple flow pathways moving across the site. We began by reading Patrick Gillies on outlook towers, who wrote at the beginning of last century that it is the role of the urban museum to reflect back upon its context.

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http://ecologyurbanismculture.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/auckland-museum-living-roof-project/

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Jaqs Clarke

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