Kia Ora Winery

Masters Thesis IntroductionBy: Karisa Masson

Location and Typology

The location for this thesis project will be New Zealand because I wanted to choose a site which I was very unfamiliar with so that over the research process I would become more Knowledgeable. After choosing my location and researching it, I decided to select a winery for my typology because the wine industry is one of the fastest growing in New Zealand with quality improving vastly in the last decade. I also chose this typology because of the versatility of extra typologies that I can include in the range of hospitality, retail and others like a gallery , I also want to find ways in which the facility can improve the local economy while celebrating the culture of the local area.

Quick Facts

• New Zealand, is dominated by two cultural groups: New Zealanders of European descent, and the minority Maori

• Māori visual art consists primarily of carving, tattooing, weaving and painting, it was rare for any of these to be purely decorative.

• Traditional Māori art was highly spiritual and in a pre-literate society conveyed information about spiritual matters, ancestry, and other culturally important topics.

•  More recently, artist are blending elements of Māori culture with European modernism• Social organization was largely communal with families, sub-tribes and tribes ruled by a chief whose

position was subject to the community's approval. • Agriculture (Wool, Dairy, wine) is the economic mainstay, but manufacturing and tourism are important

and there is a world-class film industry.