Our design philosophy

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Our philosophy is clear. To create an environment where one can interpret the built environment in their own way; interpret it as their own utopia or dystopia. Our hotel designs are a representation of this design concept. By creating a unique environment within each hotel and from each hotel's structural design, we have created a conjunction of juxtaposing concepts and ideas. The hotel based on Waiheke island incorporates this idea of disintegration and degradation, which is a quality associated with a more chaotic, dystopic sensibility. To create a counterbalance with this dystopic feature through the docking pods stationed at sea. The concept was to have these evolve with with environment; grow barnacles, seaweed, coral and unify itself with the natural environment. These docking stations become a kind of transition through this journey between hotels. The city-based hotel  takes on a more fluid and sinuous form; a direct contrast with the hotel on Waiheke, and this irregularity and asymmetry can often be viewed as a more chaotic sensibility.

Both designs are in almost complete contrast with each other, but in this contrast, a juxtaposition of ideas is created which obscures any fixed belief that either hotel is based solely on one conceptualized idea.