Experimental Building /Experimental building?
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Francis, Kerry
Treep, L.
Treep, L.
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2024
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University of Auckland. School of Architecture
Auckland (N.Z.)
New Zealand
schools of architecture
architecture education
history
architectural design
Auckland (N.Z.)
New Zealand
schools of architecture
architecture education
history
architectural design
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Francis, K.S., & Treep, L. (2024). Experimental Building /Experimental building?. In M. Dewsbury, D.Tanton, Z Al-shamma, J. Tan (Ed.), Architectural Science and User Experience: Sustainability and Health; the nexus of carbon neutral architecture and well-being. 56th Annual Conference of the Architectural Science Association 2023 (pp. 786-795).
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6977
Abstract
In 1968, students in their final year at Auckland University School of Architecture designed and built a studio for their year group into a space between two existing villas in adjacent Wynyard Street that were also occupied by the architecture programme. The studio has come to be known as the Experimental Building. To date there have been two pieces of formal documentation of the project; A 1968 Building Report by student William (Bill) Benfield, who was part of the design and construction team, and a 1980 Study Paper by contemporaneous staff member Ian George, The paper begins by outlining the motivations and provocations of the time and then turns attention to the construction process and the spatial and tectonic qualities of the Experimental Building. By examining this project through the lens of these documents it will attempt to identify what can be learnt and what was experimental about this project.
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University of Tasmania
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