Changing individual behavior is crucial when looking towards a sustainable future. Goals, such as lowering greenhouse gas emissions, reducing waste, and increasing energy and water efficiency can only truly succeed through public participation. Therefore, how do you start to shift individual/ personal habits as well as entice the greater public to participate in small gestures with positive effects. Educate Share knowledge Communicate and Encourage Participation Action It is our belief that small changes can make a big impact We propose five social actions to address food security within the Wellington City region, strengthening the importance of a socially sustainable environment. A sustainable city is one that is reducing its ecological footprint whilst simultaneously improving its quality of life. Equal rights to food security and all basic amenities Group Project: Mercia Tawhiri-Kerr, Lorna Smith, Sarah Kirk and Brittany Morgan.

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Britt, Lorna, Mercia and Sarah

2. STATEMENT
Changing individual behavior is crucial when looking towards a sustainable future. Goals, such as lowering greenhouse gas emissions, reducing waste, and
increasing energy and water efficiency can only truly succeed through public participation. Therefore, how do you start to shift individual/ personal habits as
well as entice the greater public to participate in small gestures with positive effects.
•Educate
•Share knowledge
•Communicate and Encourage Participation
•Action
URBAN DINNING
It is our belief that small changes can make a big impact
We propose five social actions to address food security within the Wellington City region, strengthening the importance of a socially sustainable
environment. A sustainable city is one that is reducing its ecological footprint whilst simultaneously improving its quality of life. Equal rights to food
security and all basic amenities
small changes big impact_ Britt, Lorna, Mercia and Sarah

3. PRECEDENTS
Union St Orchard PARK(ing) Day Eat-In Living Pavilion ELECTROLUX Outdoor Kitchen Highline D&S + Renfro Public Farm
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4. SITE
Situated on Cuba Street, in the heart of Wellington’s CBD in an unused and under-designed area, our Urban dining , ‘green’ space, ‘green’ dining) will become a hub of Cuba Street
activity to dwell, eat, socialize and rest - a place to encourage (spark, feed,) conversation and act upon sustainable living. Education will come in the form of collective
knowledge, sharing of information, through the act of growing, picking, preparing, cooking, eating and disposing, and through time based events.
Empty Space outside Matterhorn
Wellington, NZ
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5. Cuba Street
Empty Space outside Matterhorn
Wellington, NZ
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6. OCCUPANCY DIAGRAM

7. DEVELOPMENTAL
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8. PLAN
13 13
1. Merging seating into existing Cuba Street 13
2. Demonstration Area/Table 11
3. Planters
1 2 6
4. Lower (Ground) Table 11
3 4 5 7 10
8
5. Sink
9
6. Rain Catch Tank
13
7. Play Pump
11
12
8. Standard Table
13
9. Sliding Shelving (above)
13
10. Composting/Worm Farm
11. Vegetable Planters
12. Vine Climbing Structure
13 Fruit Trees

9. ELEVATION
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10. EDUCATIONAL SIGNAGE
Instructive signage to be applied to painted onto timber using donated unused/recycled paints.

11. SEASONAL GROWTH DIAGRAM
Seasonal growth diagram is a guide to what will grow and when.
Information can be found on a blog (to be etched into timber)
- http://smallchangebigimpact.tumblr.com/ where community
and local people can contribute to the bigger picture and find
out how to care for plants at home

12. PERSPECTIVE

13. PERSPECTIVE

14. DIAGRAMMATIC ELEVATION
(Rainwater catch system & compost)
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2
1 Diagram of the rain water catchment system - how it is gathered in the structure, travels down to the sink and after it’s been used to clean, it is filtered down to the planters.
2 Compostable: A product that is compostible is one that can be mixed into a composition of biodegradable materials, and which eventually turns into a usable material such
a natural fertiliser. Biodegradable materials are those that break own naturally in the environment when they are disposed of, and turn back into natural raw materials.
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15. CROSS SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

16. UPPER STRUCTURAL DETAIL

17. PERSPECTIVE

18. PERSPECTIVE

19. PROPSED MATERIALITY
Timber Recyclers Wellington
IRON MNA BUILDING RECYCLERS
132 Whakatiki Street, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington
Building Recyclers
Servicing: Wellington, Porirua, Tawa, Upper Hutt,
Petone, Lower Hutt, Kapiti, Waikanae, Belmont,
Wellington City Wellington
TICEHURST TIMBER PROCESSORS LTD
Lincoln Road, Carterton, Wellington
TINUNI TIMBER TREATMENT COMPANY LTD
Masterton Castlepoint Road, Masterton, Wellington
ACCESS LUMBER LTD
22 Echodale Place, Stoke, Nelson City, Nelson
Servicing Upper Hutt City
PIPER & PHILLIPS INDUSTRIES LTD
178 Kapiti Road, Paraparaumu, Kapiti Coast, Wellington
Steel Recyclers Wellington
Able Car and Metal Recyclers Steel Timber Rubber Existing Products
2 Broken Hill Road, Porirua, 5240, Wellington
Contact Name: Dan McEvoy
Recycled steel to construct the primary Recycled timber used for furniture Used tyres incorporated into detailing. Existing products incorporated into
Macaulay Metals
structure. and detailing components. detailing.
45 Seaview Road, Wellington
Contact Name: Jeff Harris
General Metal Recyclers Ltd
334 Hebden Cres, Lower Hutt, Wellington
Contact Name: Julian O Connell
Industrial Metals Limited
Level 1 Chamber of Commerce House, 20 Daly Street
Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt
Contact Name: Glenn Scoble
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