TAUTOKO
FollyTautoko sits intentionally just off the boundary between cultivated and uncultivated land. Envisioned as a simple bridge structure that sits in the complex cultural landscape between rural and urban life.
Delicately hanging from the light timber frame is a mesh curtain that envelopes the visitor. The curtain is layered to gradually reveal the outside world while the structure slowly separates from Papatūānuku. Where predecessors “Belly of the Beast” and “Te Takitaki” expertly orientate the users inwards through combinations of rich colour and visceral raw material, Tautoko exploits immaterial elements of light and air-flow to alter the visitors sensory experience of their immediate environment.
Tautoko extends the function of a folly beyond a simple device of place-making decoration as it sits in a landscape that is neither rural or urban. Giving form to an under explored area within New Zealand's built canon. The folly and associated text contribute to a wider discussion of not only what we build in rural regions of Aoteroa, but how we perceive rural culture from an urban perspective.
Auckland, NZ
Competition
Year: 2020
Architecture:
Luca Caiaffa
Brittany Irvine
Hamish Parbhu
