As the wind makes its way across the moana and over the whenua, its voice at times deafening, at times a mere whisper, there is much to celebrate about its presence. Its breath carries the wings of migrating birds, disperses seeds to distant sites and encourages tree roots to deepen.
When team members William Creighton, Chris Gandhi, Matt Green and Seth Trocio, all graduates of the Victoria University of Wellington School of Architecture, gathered to research site and context for their folly submission, they came across the term ‘mangatāwhiri’, which refers to the wind that sweeps across the bay at nearby Omaha Beach.
“We wanted to explore how that wind could be encapsulated
