Other Than Human

NZIA Practice
Sebastian Hamilton and Barrington Gohns

Designed By
Sebastian Hamilton and Barrington Gohns - HIGHLY COMMENDED 2009 , Auckland University – School of Architecture and Planning

Citation
Sebastian Hamilton and Barrington Gohns won the two Highly Commended Awards of trips to Sydney for a joint project that dominated their lives for a year.

The pair, who studied architecture at the University of Auckland, moved out of their respective flats and rented a former art gallery in the basement of a warehouse to house the 10m by 7.5m working model they built for the highly interactive scheme, which explores sensory engagement.

This highly interactive project explores sensory engagement and seeks to develop a new means of spatial engagement. It uses different technologies and tools including ‘the haptic’ to centre the user in their environment.

JURORS’ COMMENTS
Good engagement in different skill sets and disciplines, a high degree of resolution in built outcome and presentation and an exemplary process of mediating between theoretical propositions about spatial engagement and working at one-to-one scale.