Host Derek Kawiti is closer to home this week and looks at the architectural structure of the Te Rau Karamu Marae - the cultural heart of Massey University’s Wellington campus.
This marae, the 2022 Wellington Architecture Awards Winner, can host guests overnight and facilitate different types of teaching and learning, whilst also providing a place for retreat and rejuvenation.
The marae interfaces with surrounding campus buildings and the wider precinct. The atea opens out to the surrounding university courtyards and streets, holding its own mana without physical barriers through the use of patterned paving, planting and the carved waharoa and is an architectural sight to behold.
The eight-part series The Drawing Board examines the past, present and what future architectural designs in Aotearoa might look like.
