Abstract:
This thesis investigates the potentials of an architecture that integrates itself into its environment through affective insertions. These potentials are explored through a design project for a village-like community housing development on Pakiri hill, north of Auckland. This project developed through stages including a detailed site analysis, the creation of zones on the site according to wind and salt distribution, the analysis of the water systems existing of the site and the way these could be modified, and the creation of architectural space through use of the knowledge gained through analysis. The project demonstrated the ability of affective architecture to create space for human life out of the environment. The project afforded a way of life where the occupants could interact with their environment, whilst limiting the scope of environmental action to human amenity. The design process resulted in an architecture where the spatial and functional separations common to all complex architecture coincided with conditional separations within the site, reinforcing the delineation of space through environmental affects.