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Mind’s Eye Sequence.

* A follow-through of visual values from Auckland around the world including related architecture, human culture, people and settings.

Architecture, for example, is far from mere buildings. Rather than superficial appearances we look for significance, connections, and humanity – community, landform, place and nature, with creative vision.

I offer some samples of my photos, sketches, and texts: linking People, Culture, and Place. Some of the examples are state-of-the-art design, some telling vernacular. We can also think about the fundamental lessons of historic and traditional development, heritage where lasting and appropriate.

These images are not pretty-picture wall photography. They’re intended as meaningful visual communication. Telling, not selling. Sharing ideas, reminding of relationships between people and their setting.

Community, landform, place, and nature; expressing our awareness, culture, and identity. Far from the dramatisation of technical photographic effects – beguiling as that may be to advertising.

We can start with an Auckland domestic example, a National Awards winning historic restoration in Wellington, details of large industrial design in Huntly – a Family of Forms. Later, around the world, we might visit a vernacular Italian village – one of hundreds. In rugged mountainscape a skyline image of stone nesting appears. Unified, it grows at one with its hilltop yet is firmly shaped as living community. On our approach, its human expression within the landscape intrigues us. Who built this village with its emphatic response to Place, and how did its architecture enhance their lives?

Later in the follow-through sequence are semi-nomadic tribes I visited in the south of Ethiopia. Their “architecture" is only temporary mud huts, but from historic times they’ve had traditions of skilled body-decoration and face-painting for visual pleasure and tribal identity. And finally I’ve included some from remote Zanskar in s-w Ladakh, high Himalayas. Zanskar is sometimes called the most remote inhabited place on earth – we will enjoy the dynamics and colour of an ancient Tibetan monastic Festival, and find the wonderful form of isolated Phugtal cave-monastery integrated in growth to its mountain-face for many centuries.

At the finish I provide more than a dozen of my photo-books related to the material for further browsing in the Gallery.
Enjoy wonderful places I’ve visited, and people I’ve met in their local cultures.

Peter Shep

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Fit to nature and fiddlesticks to fashion.

Design for low-cost house fitted into native bush in Auckland, New Zealand.
North elevation.


Ref: In the Nature of Things H&B Dec/Jan. PS

The site was an east-sloping, awkwardly-shaped section which had been left unoccupied. Regenerating native bush, however, showed promise for the future. Kauris, miros, tanekahas, taraires, and lancewoods were quickly developing under a kanuka canopy. The decision was made to meld the design into this setting to provide private living concentrating on warmer *human* qualities. Modular planning was accurately measured to ensure as many trees as possible were saved to provide an atmosphere of living right in the bush.

The house steps gently down following the ground, with monopitch tiled roofs floating above. The central *room* is a courtyard deck wrapped by *bi-nuclear* planning --- day living on the higher side, sleeping below, and an entry/glazed link. A verandah steps down the long sunny (north) face showing in this early drawing, providing deck spaces to dining, living and bedrooms. A series of French doors and sitting rails further enable a close indoor/outdoor living style to suit the Auckland climate. A relaxed atmosphere results, but without disorder. Pottery bird-feeders and native creepers provide all the decoration necessary.........contd in a couple of photos........


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Interior, Bush house, Auckland
Design concentration on livability, light, fit to setting, humanity, and natural materials.


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...The interior is clean and simple with wood finishes and warm-white walls contrasting with the weathered exterior. (Coconut image.) Daylight is not only filtered through the trees and windows, but also comes softly from above.

Materials are: reverse board-and-batten, tight-knots cedar weather-boarding, charbrown concrete tiles with special light-edge details, acrylic and double-glass rooflights, bronze aluminium and rimu/cedar external joinery, exposed Douglas fir rafters with moulding-grade pine tongue-and-groove ceiling lining, and brick open fireplace......contd .......


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