Making Dis / Aggregation

<p><strong>This thesis proposes research using two scales that run through the work: the project scale and the portfolio scale. The broader motive behind this research is to observe my creative portfolio through a body of work, making design tendencies explicit knowledge. The research looks at current anthropogenic water issues, using Hawkes Bay as a vehicle to test answers and understand implications. This thesis is prompted by a collective urgency to restore sensitivity to the way we understand, interact with, and inhabit landscapes.</strong></p><p>Through this lens: How can my creative design processes impact the ways in which architecture can help us understand dynamic landscape conditions within the Anthropocene? In questioning this, how can the tacit knowledge embedded within my creative processes be made explicit, revealing fascinations and tendencies? I navigate this by looking at water issues in Hawkes Bay, from coastal erosion to flooding events, using Cyclone Gabrielle as material. This research does not attempt to solve problems; instead, it speculates on those issues by engaging with them. The research consists of three experiments that increase in scale and architectural complexity and expand and contract between ideas relating to the territory, landscape, and architecture. In articulating the portfolio, I zero in on the intersection between my portfolio and intersecting arguments, positioning my work through others within the disciplinary constellation. This creative research uses methods of making through lenses of hybrid drawing, hybrid models, and hybrid cartography in search of transference between lenses and working environments, analogue and digital. Through investigating landscape issues and my creative tendencies, this thesis seeks to contribute knowledge by offering landscape understandings and to concretise my methods as explicit knowledge.</p>