Super-Pacific City

An image from 'Super-Pacific City: The Saga of Lomipeau' a fifth-year project by Norman Wei at the University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning. Lomipeau - a mythical, giant Tongan double-hulled canoe - was presented in model form in 'Future Islands'. Wei's project envisaged the application of a Pacific tectonic system to a new research-based city, and the evolution of that system through experimentation. New features, such as robotics, would be grafted on to the traditional Pacific way of building.