Final poster board
In this design, I created a dystopian fairytale to frame my architectural response. Set in a fractured future version of Red Rocks, Wellington, the landscape is unstable—battered by ongoing rockfall and environmental collapse. In this world, crystal-like fragments fall from the sky, remnants of a broken atmosphere. I imagine gathering these fallen shards to power scattered architectural forms that cling to the hillside. These elevated structures, linked by light bridges, offer the last shelter for human life. "COLLAPSE" becomes a system of survival—resilient, adaptive, and quietly magical amidst destruction.
Site plan with section marked
Ground floor plans
Elevation
Perspectives
Section
Process
The process began with marble and ink experiments to explore chaotic, uncontrolled movement as a metaphor for collapse. These gestures were translated into structural forms using digital tools like Rhino and Houdini. By simulating crystal-like fragments falling across the terrain, I was able to identify safe zones, the areas least likely to be struck, ideally where buildings and housing could be placed. Areas where crystals consistently gathered became designated collection points. Through iterative testing, this informed a modular, elevated architectural system designed to adapt to unstable, shifting landscapes.
This project investigated how architecture can respond to environmental collapse, specifically rockfall. The goal was to develop a system that does not resist instability, but instead adapts to it, creating a resilient, fragmented architecture that integrates into risky terrain while protecting its users, from here using simulation and digital software's I developed what is seen to the left into my final poster board above.
Assignment 2 results showing initial positioning of the form in Red Rocks Wellington
