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Designed as part of a furniture project for The Living Pā, Te Hanga is a modular seating system that delves into traditional Māori narratives surrounding Ranginui and Papatūānuku. 

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Te Hanga

Based on the 17th century ballad by Laurence Price, ‘The Famous Flower of Serving Men’ is a tale that deals with betrayal, murder, spite, revenge, love, loss and healing.  This project’s brief was simply to produce a comic, any comic, with complete freedom regarding where I might to take it. As myths and legends have always been a passion of mine, especially those of old England and the lands of the Celts, for my comic, I turned to my collection of ancient ballads. Eventually I selected this one for its completeness of tale and themes still relevant to modern audiences. As the tradition of this ballad was undoubtedly oral at first, there is no official original version and so, to recover a full storyline, I collated all the versions I could find. From there I expanded the tale so that the flow remained coherent, rewrote the script to suit a modern day audience and added characters to produce a cohesive and complete story, while still remaining as true to the original plot as possible.  My first stages included sketching characters and ideas for scenes. This quickly grew into a full scale rough draft. Much effort was put here into ensuring that the layout on the page helped to develop and add to the story, working alongside the actual frames and their contents. Following this, I sketched and drew the final comic by hand on A4 paper using pigment liners, brush and ink. This was scanned and cleaned up digitally then compiled to produce the final piece.

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The Famous Flower of Serving Men

The focus of this assignment is to develop a strong dialogue between architectural form, light and atmosphere. The possibilities of natural light have been observed to establish rich atmospheric qualities in the formation of a coherent, emotive and bold architectural dialogue which identifies the essence of the design. Driven by these atmospheric qualities, the design is an integration of complex systems of light and detail in the formation of a unique design which simulates a range of experiences and conditions, responding directly to the architecture which attracts and accommodates activity and people. 

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Library Afloat

The proposed installation looks into providing students with individual spaces to be their cocoon. These spaces allow students to use their electronic devices to study, make video calls and relax. The design idea offers small pods attached to the atrium columns with different shapes and colours. As the design works primarily with the columns, it could easily be applicable to the other levels. 

Rhys Taplin

Te Hanga

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The Famous Flower of Serving Men

Library Afloat

Cocoon

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The Famous Flower of Serving Men

Library Afloat

Cocoon