The Hauora Centre:Discover, Learn, and Grow

Design Intent: Assessment of the greater Banks Peninsula area at various scales to determine key issues that require design intervention around the site. The main issues across the site are the climate change effects through a declining health of rivers, estuaries, and oceans. Additional issues include a loss of culture, a decline of indigenous vegetation, and dangerous roads.

Project Goals:

1. To improve the health and well-being of children navigating neurodiversity, trauma, and mental health issues through a newly rejuvenated Hauora centre.
2. To enhance the health of the estuary, seabed and river habitats, increasing biodiversity and rejuvenating the natural ecosystem within the greater Banks Peninsula area
3. Through education, increase knowledge and understanding of the cultural identity of the area, its history, and the traditional Māori practices of sustainable living