1. Gemma Cookson . Portfolio . 2015

2. Occupying the Edge
Masters Thesis
2013

3. Thesis Development
2012

4. Christchurch Summer School
Eastern Link
2012

5. Urban Planning UFRGS
‘Planagamento 2 - Gargim’
2011

6. sistemas e percepções
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aético
conhecimentodanatureza
todas as funções devem
conter uma variedade de
elementos, então quando um
elemento não funciona, outros
podem ocupar seu lugar
respeitar o funcionamento
do ecossistema, evitando
ao máximo a
contaminação do
ambiente
usar recursos naturais e
sustentáveis como forma de
energia e alimentação, como o
tratamento de águas cinzas e a
conservação do ecossistema
evitar o uso de produtos
que gerem desperdício, e
reutilizá-lo quando
possível, como na criação
de composteiras
o desenho de permacultura
deve seguir padrões
existentes na natureza ou na
sociedade, como nas teorias
de Cristopher Alexander
pensar soluções que se
adaptem as características
do local, pensando sempre
em uma escala reduzida e
evitando gastos no
deslocamento
considerar um espaço livre
para que plantas e animais se
desenvolvam naturalmente,
como o telhado verde em que
plantas crescem sem
planejamento
pensar nas intersecções
entre dois ecossistemas,
considerando as relações
entre as atividades pre-
existentes, evitando a
criação de barreiras entre
eles
o design de permacultura
deve responder às
mudanças climáticas,
sociais e de ecossistemas
futuros
observar estruturas e
comportamentos
encontrados na natureza,
afim de entender suas
relações com o local
capturar e armazenar
energia natural para o
ambiente e prédio, como
energia solar, eólica e
design passivo
projetar sistemas eficientes
e bem dimensionados para
suprir as necessidades de
seus usuários, como
paisagismo produtivo
Projecto 7 - UFRGS
Sustainable School
2011

7. CORTE STRUTURAL LONGITUDINAL A-A
ESCALA @ 1:500
Football Museum UFRGS
Exchange 4th Year
2011
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O tema do exercício de projeto será o
Museu do Futebol em Porto Alegre. O
empreendimento conjugará equipamentos
de cultura, serviço e turismo.
Sua localização será na Praça Júlio
Mesquita, entre a av. João Goulart e a
rua General Salustiano, no centro da
cidade. O local é próximo das atrações
do centro histórico e da usina do Gasô-
metro, além de estar ligado ao trajeto do
bonde turístico. Sua função será abrigar a
memória relacionada ao futebol na cidade
de Porto Alegre, com especial ênfase na
Copa do Mundo de 2014 e no papel da
capital gaúcha como uma das sedes do
evento.
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8. Photography UFRGS
‘Caixas do Porto’
2011
CAISDOPORTOGEMMAROSECOOKSON-PORTFOLIO-2011

9. Memorial Competition
Architecture for Humanity
2012

10. Sustainable Studio 3rd Year
2010

11. GROUND FLOOR
N
1:100100 51
PLAN
SECTION
GARAGE
SECOND FLOOR & ROOF
N
1:100100 51
2nd Year Studio
‘Familly Quarters’
2009
ELEVATIONS
NORTH
EAST
1:100100 51
SOUTH
WEST
SOUTH
SOUTH
WEST
SOUTH

12. 2nd Year Studio
‘Memorial’
2009
PLAN DETAILS OF CROSSES scale @ 1:5
BUILDING 1, UNITECNEW ZEALAND AUCKLAND MT ALBERT
This is a memorial proposal for the individuals and families affected by mental illness
and those subjected to the New Zealand mental asylums and psychiatric hospitals
from 1860 until 1990’s when the major mental institutions were decommissioned.
institution STUDIO 2b/2009
MEMORIAL PROJECT
GEMMA COOKSON
1351997
LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2
NEW MEMORIAL LOCATIONS WITHIN THE EXISTING BUILDING
EXISTING BUILDING
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X NEW MEMORIAL LOCATIONS WITHIN THE BUILDING
SECTIONAL DETAILS OF CROSSES
This memorial is communicated through the iconography on the grounds left by the
patients and words from the renowned New Zealand author Janet Frame. Who spent
eight years in psychiatric hospitals all over New Zealand after being misdiagnosed with
schizophrenia in 1945.
The memorial is located within and around UNITEC’s building 1, previously known as
Carrington psychiatric Hospital, constructed in the 1860’s.
The aim is to create a discreet tapestry of small mementos to the loss of individual
identity through being in a mental instuition. The proposed memorial aims to per-
sonalise the experience through the scale of the crosses, the smallest being 150
x150mm, allowing only one or two people to experience or find the crosses one at a
time.
in
LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2
NEW MEMORIAL LOCATIONS WITHIN THE EXISTING BUILDING
EXISTING BUILDING
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X NEW MEMORIAL LOCATIONS WITHIN THE BUILDING
SECTIONAL DETAILS OF CROSSES
This memorial is communicated through the iconography on the grounds left by the
patients and words from the renowned New Zealand author Janet Frame. Who spent
eight years in psychiatric hospitals all over New Zealand after being misdiagnosed with
schizophrenia in 1945.
The memorial is located within and around UNITEC’s building 1, previously known as
Carrington psychiatric Hospital, constructed in the 1860’s.
The aim is to create a discreet tapestry of small mementos to the loss of individual
identity through being in a mental instuition. The proposed memorial aims to per-
sonalise the experience through the scale of the crosses, the smallest being 150
x150mm, allowing only one or two people to experience or find the crosses one at a
time.
in
LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2
NEW MEMORIAL LOCATIONS WITHIN THE EXISTING BUILDING
EXISTING BUILDING
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X NEW MEMORIAL LOCATIONS WITHIN THE BUILDING
SECTIONAL DETAILS OF CROSSES
This memorial is communicated through the iconography on the grounds left by the
patients and words from the renowned New Zealand author Janet Frame. Who spent
eight years in psychiatric hospitals all over New Zealand after being misdiagnosed with
schizophrenia in 1945.
The memorial is located within and around UNITEC’s building 1, previously known as
Carrington psychiatric Hospital, constructed in the 1860’s.
The aim is to create a discreet tapestry of small mementos to the loss of individual
identity through being in a mental instuition. The proposed memorial aims to per-
sonalise the experience through the scale of the crosses, the smallest being 150
x150mm, allowing only one or two people to experience or find the crosses one at a
time.

13. Cotense:
Introduction
interviews
with Peeter
Johnson, Russell
Garbutt, and
supplimentary
interviews with
Don Knewstubb,
Ray Bretherton, and
Grahem Burrow.
Images and suppli-
mentary information
is sourced from
the Otago Settlers
Museaum, the
ODT, suppliment
on DNTV-2
the firat day of
transmision.
Television
is Here!
:An Oral History
on Dunedin
Television
By G. Cookson
TelevisionisHere:AnOralHistoryonDunedinTelevisionbyG.Cookson
To anybody with an
interest in history, this is
an account of what you
will not find in you aver-
age history book- Oral
History. Oral history is of
fundamental importance,
since it acknowledges the
everyday worker who is
bypassed in traditional
history. They have a face,
name and a past, all of
which contributed in
some way to the making,
recording and present-
ing of local and national
television history.
They present the view
of the individual on the
undocumented day to day
running of television, how
their work contributed
on the whole, their view
on the entire complexity
of the system and how it
affected the community.
Brief overview:
Television
is Here
:An Oral History on
Dunedin Television
By G. Cookson
DNTV-2
1960-1970
Gemma Cookson
is a 20 year old
undergraduate
design student at
Otago Univer-
sity NZ. She
Compleeted this
book as part of
an Oral History
Design Project
in her final year.
She wrote this
book in Brazil
while she was on
a study exchange
in 2007 after
compiling all
her research in
Dunedin that
same year.
She hopes you
enjoy this book
and understand
more about the
significance of
Oral History
because of it.
Stories, yarns and
memories make history.
This is an oral history about the first ten years of
television in Dunedin. Specifically focusing on stories
from the technicians who were involved with DNTV-2
(Dunedin Television, Channel two) from 1960-1970.
This book reflects not only on the technological changes
but also work dynamics and the stories about day to
day life in the 1960’s that have risen from these first
hand accounts. This book principally includes text from
interviews with the technicians, Peter Johnson, Rus-
sell Garbutt, Don Knewstubb, Ray Bretherton, Dave
Howell and Graeme Burrow.
3nd Year Studio - Otago
‘DNTV-2 Oral History Project’
2007