Tuesday 28 April
Peter Eising, Director Pacific Environments
It’s not often that a commission to design a tree-house is offered, especially one to be used for a ‘reality’ TV advert, that operates as an off-the-wall functioning restaurant. So Pacific Environments jumped at the opportunity!
The tree-house concept is reminiscent of childhood dreams and playtime, fairy stories of enchantment and imagination. It’s inspired through many forms found in nature; the chrysalis/cocoon protecting the emerging butter y/moth, perhaps an onion/garlic clove form hung out to dry. It is also seen as a lantern, a beacon at night that simply glows yet during the day it might be a semi-camou flaged growth, or a tree fort that provides an outlook and that offers refuge. The plan form has loose similarities to a sea-shell, with the open ends spiraling to the centre. The concept is driven by the ‘enchanted’ site which is raised above an open meadow and meandering stream on the edge of the woods. It’s the tree-house we all dreamed of as children but could only build as an adult.
Peter will talk about the people, processes, challenges and fun in the few weeks it took from commissioning the design to completing the building.
See the Yellow Tree House at http://www.yellowtreehouse.co.nz/
Communiqué 09
All talks take place at 12.00 – 1.00pm
Venue: Design Theatre
School of Architecture and Planning
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