The Creators Guild

Work

Bring us the problem

Work

Bring us the problem

AUCKLAND

2025 - 2026

BUILT

Urban Parcel

One address in. A development out.

“The application is roughly a manual version of what you will be creating.”

ARCHITECTURE

COMPUTATIONAL

parts

sheets at 1250 × 2500

plywood

dogbone radius

The spec

Rear lot

Deep rectangle

A parcel, as it arrives

Battle-axe

Corner

Alongside the spec came seven approved council consents — finished answers for seven parcels, none of which explained the logic behind them — and eight test parcels chosen because they break each other's rules. And one line in the brief: “The script has to work for every shape.”

Two subdivision methods died before the third held.

ABANDONED

Nesting an ideal lot

Elegant on a rectangle. On an irregular boundary the results were inconsistent and the leftover space enormous.

ABANDONED

Voronoi from a row of points

One row comes out excellent. Add a second and the borders between rows stop lining up.

KEPT

Divide in two directions, then trim

Along the length and across the width at once. Clean, rectangular, and it holds on a dog-leg.

THE PROCESS

Eleven decisions, one after another.

01 Clean the geometry

Real parcels arrive with narrow passages and outgrowths nothing can be built on. The boundary is exploded, the lines that cut those spaces off are extended, and they are discarded.

01 Clean the geometry

Real parcels arrive with narrow passages and outgrowths nothing can be built on. The boundary is exploded, the lines that cut those spaces off are extended, and they are discarded.