Future Neighbourhoods and Multispecies Postgraduate Research Lab

By creatively reimagining and adapting the existing fabric of buildings, streetscapes, public spaces, and urban systems in response to urgent contemporary challenges, we develop design propositions that embrace life-cycle thinking, resourcefulness, and holistic systems thinking.

Ongoing Thesis Research

• 2025 – Ongoing. Circular Architecture, An Investigation of a Circular Economy within Architecture through Deconstruction Strategies
• 2025 – Ongoing. Urban Regeneration: Exploring adaptive reuse and retrofit of heritage buildings with a Vernacular approach
• 2025 – Ongoing. Adaptive Reuse for Healing Architecture: Transforming Historic Buildings into Therapeutic Community Housing
• 2025 - Ongoing. (Re)Inhabitation: Restoring Auckland’s architectural landscape through a minimal approach to building adaptation
• 2025 – Ongoing. Designing a Resilient Urban Future: Integrating Walkable Urbanism with Regenerative urban design strategies into Tāmaki Makaurau
• 2025 – Ongoing. Designing the 400-Year Home: Strategies for Long-Term Relevance, Adaptable Renovation, and Timeless Design
• 2025 – Ongoing. Reimagining urban design and transport in Auckland: Exploring how Auckland’s urban design was informed by past transport technologies, and how it can be shaped by future transport systems.
• 2025 – Ongoing. Entropy in Architecture: An Analytical Exploration of Objective Form, Variation, and Performance in the Built Environment
• 2025 – Ongoing. Regenerating Urban Voids into Ma: Exploring Architectural Methodology Using Kigumi Structure

Completed Theses

• 2024 - 2025, Decentralised Solar Resilience: the transition towards resilient communities through the integration of distributed solar PV systems in the urban environment
• 2024 - 2025, Mapping the past, securing the future : developing a 3D scanning and virtual reality based workflow for the conservation of at-risk heritage sites in Auckland, New Zealand
• 2024 - 2025, Sensitive Developments: The Role of Bluefield Reuse and Infill Development in Auckland Residential Suburbs
• 2024 - 2025, Power of Place: Adaptive Reuse as a Catalyst for Teenage Community Engagement and Regeneration
• 2024 - 2025, Through the eyes of the unseen: towards inclusive, walkable neighbourhoods through distributed recreational architecture