June 24, 2024
Ngāti Pāoa puts mark on AUT campus
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Ngāti Pāoa has formally opened a new block at AUT which was designed in collaboration with Ngāti Pāoa and Ngāti Whātua artist Janine Williams.
The 9000m2 Tukutuku development will accommodate around 2000 students and 200 staff.
It is also AUT’s most sustainable building yet and on track to be the country’s most efficiently heated and cooled tertiary education building.
Tukutuku was tTaken from the name of the matriarch of Ngāti Paoa, and also the lattice panels which together people, place and shared purpose.
Williams says that the narrative theme underpinning the spatial framework plan is the idea of the waka hourua, the double-hulled waka, symbolising the partnership between the mana whenua and the university.
She also worked with other iwi members to create created three artworks for the building, including a large digital mural featuring kuaka.