Too often, the actual process of making architecture is overlooked. This gallery is the first in a series that seeks to illustrate the art of craft and assembly in making Novotel, Auckland Airport.
Two bespoke pieces are captured during the early stages of making; the lobby stair and guestroom door handle.
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Guestroom door handle – sand is press formed to create a single use mould. A process repeated 150 times.
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The skeletal framework of the stair, intricately crafted pieces that will never be seen once complete, yet vital to the structural integrity of this self supporting helix.
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Molten aluminium poured at 1100degC into sand.
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Hand drawn setout lines directly transposed from design drawings to material surface.
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Discussion by drawing never stops throughout the process.
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Moulds are ready to be destroyed to reveal the purpose of the endeavour in crafting the sand
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Once molten aluminium is now revealed formed in planar geometry. Work on the handle can now begin.
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The assembly of stair ‘pieces’ moves to site
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Parts will form the whole
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One ‘piece’ takes form within a broader context.
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