TE ARA I WHITI
About
Designed in collaboration with Monk MacKenzie Architects Te Ara I Whiti - Lightpath transforms a redundant piece of motorway infrastructure into a playful and sculptural piece of cycling infrastructure threaded through Auckland’s inner city motorway junction. The design intent of the project was to create a hybrid space that supports its intended function as a cycle path but also enables exploration, discovery and occupation.
The path enables a journey and episodic experience that engages with both the infrastructural landscape of the motorway and contextual views of the wider landscape. Three hundred individual LED light poles controlled by sensors are arranged as a spine down the city side of the path creating a living and breathing interactive urban light sculpture that responds to varying patterns and intensities of user movement. Check out some video footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDHoFbbulHs
Details
2015 - 2016
Date
Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Location
Client
Auckland Council + Auckland Transport + Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
Budget
$10M
Collaborators
Monk Mackenzie
GHD
iion
Awards
Los Angeles Business Council (LABC) Tripartite Award (2017)
NZILA Awards, Infrastructure Winner (2017)
World Landscape Architecture - Built Design, Merit Award (2017)
NZIP - Rodney Davis Project Award Winner (2016)
IPWEA NZ Excellence Awards - Best Public Works Project over $5m Winner (2016)
ACE NZ Innovate Awards of Excellence - Silver Winner (2016)
DINZ, Best Awards - Colour, Gold (2016)
DINZ, Best Awards - Public and Institutional Spaces, Gold (2016)
DINZ, Best Awards - Public Good, Gold (2016)
DINZ, Best Awards - Supreme Spatial Award, Purple Pin (2016)
NZTA Bike for the Future – Innovation Hub Category Winner (2016)
NZTA Bike for the Future – Supreme Award Winner (2016)
NZTA Bike for the Future – Big Bike Bling Highly Commended Award Winner (2016)
NZIA Auckland Award – Colour, (2016)
NZIA Auckland Award – Planning & Urban Design, (2016)
NZIA National Architecture Award – Planning & Urban Design Category, (2016)
NZIA National Architecture Award – John Scott Award for Public Architecture, (2016)
Architizer A+ Awards in New York (2016) – Highways and Bridges – Popular choice
WAF Awards - Transport, Completed Building Award Winner (2016)
NZTA GEM Awards - Innovation (2016)