A photograph of a walkway between two buildings of St Paul's School. A diagonal crack can be seen running between the bricks in one wall.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Gloucester Street leading onto Gayhurst Road. Demolished part of St Paul's School at the lower centre".
A photograph of an 'All Rightie' with a roll of stickers at The Worry Bug book launch at St Albans School.
A video of teachers and other staff at Christchurch schools receiving gratitude and flowers from members of the All Right? team. Ciaran Fox and some 'All Righties' (including Donovan Ryan and Jo Scott) arrive at Wainoni School and Shirley Intermediate School assemblies to launch their 'Winter Survival Kit' and share some love with a 'Little Burst of All Right'. The event was supported by BECA and the flowers were donated by Moffatts Flower Company. The Press took photographs and helped to distribute the video. All Right? posted a link to the video on their Facebook Timeline on 1 August 2014 at 4:00pm. They also published the video to YouTube on 20th November 2014.
Road cones outside South New Brighton School have been decorated with flowers for the anniversary of the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Pupils from quake-affected St Pauls School play football at AMI stadium with members of The Phoenix".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Children at Frankley School dressed in Canterbury colours last week to help raise funds for earthquake victims".
Christchurch school principals say they might not be able to implement the government's national standards properly because of the February earthquake.
Road cones outside South New Brighton School have been decorated with flowers for the anniversary of the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The now empty site of Cranmer Centre with salvaged material (former Christchurch Girls High School)".
The St Michael and All Angels Anglican Church and School, with some cracking on the footpath in front of the church.
Diggers working on an almost empty site after demolition of classrooms and other teaching facilities at Rangi Ruru Girls' High School.
Road damage between St Paul's School and Gayhurst Road bridge. The road has slumped near the curb, probably due to liquefaction.
A natural disaster will inevitably strike New Zealand in the coming years, damaging educational facilities. Delays in building quality replacement facilities will lead to short-term disruption of education, risking long-term inequalities for the affected students. The Christchurch earthquake demonstrated the issues arising from a lack of school planning and support. This research proposes a system that can effectively provide rapid, prefabricated, primary schools in post-disaster environments. The aim is to continue education for children in the short term, while using construction that is suitable until the total replacement of the given school is completed. The expandable prefabricated architecture meets the strength, time, and transport requirements to deliver a robust, rapid relief temporary construction. It is also adaptable to any area within New Zealand. This design solution supports personal well-being and mitigates the risk of educational gaps, PTSD linked with anxiety and depression, and many other mental health disorders that can impact students and teachers after a natural disaster.
The sign reads: The CTV Building was headquarters of Canterbury Television (CTV) and also housed King’s Education language School, a medical clinic, Hair Consultants, Relationship Services and a nursing school. On February 22nd 2011 the building collapsed as a result of a major earthquake. Sadly, 115 people who were in the building lost their l...
A web story about the model design work by Christ's College pupils.
A PDF copy of a newsletter sent by All Right? to their mailing list in April 2017.
It's been dubbed Canterbury's little seaside community who never gave up. Nine years in the making, it was Redcliffs School''s grand re-opening today after earthquake damage rendered the old site unsafe. The occasion was marked with tears, hugging, singing and some very special guests. Katie Todd filed this report.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage from the February 22nd earthquake in Christchurch. People queuing and waiting for water at Redcliffs School".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage from the February 22nd earthquake in Christchurch. People queuing and waiting for water at Redcliffs School".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage from the February 22nd earthquake in Christchurch. People queuing and waiting for water at Redcliffs School".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Showing support. Clutha Valley Primary school's Kanuka group show their support for the victims of the Christchurch earthquake".
High School students cleaning up a site on Gloucester Street. This is where the Re-Entry concert is going to be held.
High School students cleaning up a site on Gloucester Street. This is where the Re-Entry concert is going to be held.
A photograph of mattresses and blankets in a school hall in Christchurch. The hall was set up by Civil Defence as temporary accommodation for citizens displaced by the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A photograph of Mark Osborne, a member of the Wellington Emergency Management Office, outside the office block of St Paul's School in Dallington.
A photograph of volunteers from the Wellington Emergency Management Office arriving at a school which was used as a Civil Defence Report Centre after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A photograph of mattresses and bedding set up in a school hall by Civil Defence. The hall served as temporary accommodation for those who were displaced by the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
As cities evolve, change and grow, the need and desire for adaptable architecture becomes evident across the nation. Architecture needs to undertake techniques that are flexible in order to adapt and align with the development of future generations in New Zealand. The Education industry is a primary example of a sector which requires flexibility within both classroom architectural form and interior configuration. This is a resultant of the recently updated Ministry of Education requirements; which state that every new classroom built or renovated nationwide, must implement the MoE classroom design standards for Innovative Learning Environments. ILE teaching spaces are configured as an open plan interior, supporting flexibility in classroom arrangement and teaching techniques. ILE classrooms are capable of evolving and adapting as educational practices evolve and change, allowing schools to remain modern and future focused. As part of this movement to ILE, the Ministry of Education has also recently made an attempt to improve the quality of temporary classrooms. This has been done by looking into the initiation of a programme that utilizes relocatable classroom buildings. Relocatable classrooms have been selected for multiple reasons, primarily flexibility. Flexibility is key for a school environment as it allows the school to actively respond to fluctuating school rolls. It is anticipated that the programme will provide a faster delivery process with a standardised design that allows the classrooms to be relocated from one school to another with relative ease. Following the devastating February 2011 earthquake the Greater Christchurch Region, the Education sector is in the midst of the Canterbury Schools Rebuild Programme. As a repercussion of this natural disaster, the majority of Christchurch schools have redevelopment or rebuild projects in progress, with preliminary design phases already in action for a small group of select schools regarded as high priority. The primary funding for these projects are sourced from insurance money, implementing tight budget restrictions, affecting the architectural design, quality and speed of the construction and repair works. The available funding limits the affordable classroom options to basic teaching spaces that have been stripped back to simple architectural forms, dictating not only the re-design, but also how our future generations will learn. Thus causing the development of the new student-led learning ILE concept to become controlled by existing construction techniques and the Rebuild Programmes budget restrictions. This thesis focuses on the future proofing of New Zealand schools by providing an affordable and time efficient alternative option to the current static, traditional construction, an option that has the ability to cater to the unpredictable fluctuating school rolls across the nation. This has been done by developing a prefabricated system for standalone classroom blocks. These blocks have the ability to be relocated between different school sites, dynamically catering to the unpredictable school roll numbers experienced across New Zealand. This site flexibility is reflected with the interior flexibility in the classrooms, enhancing the internal teaching space composition and challenges the existing design standards set by the Ministry of Education for Innovative Learning Environments. This system is called “Flexi-Ed”. Flexibility has been a key driver for this thesis, as the prefabricated structure is have to be flexible in three ways; first in the sense of being easy to assemble and disassemble. Second by offering flexible interior learning environments and thirdly the joints of the structure are designed with the ability to be flexible in order to cope with seismic activity. These three principles will provide schools with long term flexibility, minimal on-site interruption and heighten the standard of ILE across the nation. I strive to provide schools with long term flexibility and minimal site interruption, whilst heightening the standard of Innovative Learning Environments across New Zealand.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The south-west corner of Lichfield and Manchester Streets with the site of Reuben Blades Hairdressing School".