New Locations, selected site, photos and video

Having talked with the tutors, our previous stops were not too specific for the people with had intended to 'gift,' who were the architecture students. For that reason, we decided to ask around our fellow friends where they stayed, where they parked, and where they needed to go around the city. Above you can see the new stops devised to work around the transportation needs of architecture students.

There I chose a stop within the given site triangle, a car park in Ngaoho Place. It was a stop necessary for the idea, evident in our results that quite a number of archi-friends parked there to walk up Anzac Avenue, then Symonds Street. Their reasons were that Ngaoho Car park was nearly half the price of car park costs close to Auckland University and that it always reserves to find a space to park other than the latter. Above photo illustrates how the railway would link to the stops before and after, where the tram stop will be, and the walking paths that the students take.

Site Photos:

Pointing towards the East, is the Ngaoho Carpark where to it's left is the ramp, on it the existing train line.

Above photo is looking back from the Ngaoho car park towards the west where to the left, you can see the residential apartment, to the right the train line and the train itself, and the walking pathway in between the two.

This photo shows the walkway towards the West. As you can see, in-between the residential apartments and the existing train railway are the prudent greens of bushes and tree. Sounds of the birds singing could be heard though enclosed by the sound of the passing trains from every now and again. The sound of the trains I felt was quite immersing in its ability to close out every other noise. However still, I knew the sound would be of annoyance if I were to hear it over and over again. That in mind, made me think of the residential building set right to the edge of the rail line, and as to further 'gift' the city, there was the idea of while taking the ground space but also giving back to the surrounding building through the design becoming their solution.

Site Panorama:

Above panorama establishes the site's surrounding buildings and the ground conditions on which they sit.


Surrounding sounds:

Here is a video recorded at the entrance of the walkway as the train passes by.