Tom, Iain and myself completed a 24 hour competition entry hosted by the Architectural Centre in Wellington.
The brief was to write a 'counterfactual history', to propose what may have happened to an uncompleted tunnel, running between Wainuiomata and Lower Hutt, in the decade of the 1980s.
WE HEREBY PROPOSE:
Site Plan of Wellington Area
Completed in 1980, the tunnel was converted into the world's Largest Kaleidoscope. The people of Wainuiomata viewed the events of the 80's through the lens of the Kaleidoscope and rebuilt their urban plan based on the euphoric visions they saw.
The rebuilt urban plan of Wainuiomata based on Kaleidoscopic images of 1980s
"kaleidoscope" is derived from the Ancient Greek καλ(ός) (beauty, beautiful), είδο(ς) (form, shape) and -σκόπιο (tool for examination) – hence "observer of beautiful forms."
Long and cross - section through tunnel / kaleidoscope.
"The 1980's look so beautiful viewed from Wainuiomata"
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