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the finished
[ PROJECT ]
Te Nukuao
F
STRUCTURE
Te Nukuao
BUILT BY
Dave Giddens Sailmakers,
Auckland, NZ
MATERIAL USED
Hiraoka Sundream
FABRIC SUPPLIED BY
W. Wiggins, Ltd.,
Christchurch, NZ
COMPONENTS SUPPLIED BY
Fineline Marine, Auckland, NZ
FABRICATION COMPANY
McConnell Dowell, NZ
GRAPHICS
Omnigraphics
or most of its history the America's Cup yacht race took place on offshore
courses far from the viewing public, but recent race organizers wanted to
transform it into a spectator sport. When the 36th America's Cup took place
in New Zealand last March, visitors could, for the first time, watch the race
from viewing spots in Auckland's Wynyard Quarter, a reclaimed piece of land on
Waitemat�a Harbour.
At the heart of Wynyard Quarter stands a large, angular shade sail structure
built to honor the history and traditions of the Maori, the indigenous Polynesian
people of mainland New Zealand. The project was part of a larger program to
upgrade the infrastructure of Wynyard Quarter in preparation for the yacht race.
Called Te Nukuao, the sail structure is a large public art installation, designed
by artist Tessa Harris, who took inspiration from waka-hourua, the twin-hulled
sailing canoes said to have brought the original Maori settlers to New Zealand
in the 1300s. The structure itself was considered a framework to celebrate the
traditional Maori craft of weaving.
The asymmetric nature of the structure meant that sail panels had to be cut in
varying shapes. Dave Giddens Sailmakers loaded the plans for the structure into
CAD, which ran numerous iterations of the irregular panel layout to achieve the
best possible fabric yield.
The structure was installed two weeks before a planned powhiri (a Maori
welcoming ceremony of speeches, cultural performances, singing and more) to
celebrate the completion of infrastructure upgrades for the yacht race. Today, the
public continues to use the structure as a place to shelter from the weather and
admire as a work of art.
The project was recognized as a 2021 Award for Excellence Winner-Tension
Structures & Canopies 51-100 square meters by OFPANZ, the Outdoor Fabric
Products Association of New Zealand.
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