b'green thumbleft and opposite: Yellow Post, the most recent winning project created as part of the Brick Bay Folly competition, was designed and built by George Culling, Oliver Prisk, Henry Mabin and Andr Vachiasa team of graduate architects who metReseneduring their studies at Victoria University of Wellington. Standing 11m tall andBroompainted in Eco Choice approved Resene Sonyx 101 semi-gloss tinted to Resene Broom, the project simply cant be missed. Visitors to Brick Bay can experience Yellow Post on-site for the next three years as part of the evolving sculpture trail exhibition, which features more than 60 contemporary large-scale artworks.before them, Andr, George, Henry and OliverFromastructuralstandpoint,themost weresupportedbyprofessionalconstruction,significant development that came out of that engineering and architecture mentors includingexercisewastheintroductionofasplitbeam Pip Cheshire from Cheshire Architects, Stevesystemwhichwecouldrapidlyprototypeand CassidyfromCassidyConstruction,Peterevaluateusingthenodemodel,Oliversays. BoardmanfromStructureDesignandKeithViewing the design process at a human scale Mann from Unitecs School of Architecture. proved invaluable, offering insight into how the Tohelpstrategisehowtheteamwoulddetailing would appear on the final built structure.bring their design from concept to reality, theySustainabilityhasbecomeakey created a 1:1 node model which ended up playingconsiderationforonBrickBayFollybuilds. acrucialroleinshapingtheirconstructionRecentfollywinnershavebeenableto methodology. The model enabled them to testrepurpose components from previous projects buildingsequences,nodeconfigurations,fixthathavebeendecommissioned.However, techniques and work out how the fabric would besince this year saw the introduction of third folly integrated. Constructed at George and Oliverssite at Brick Bay, no folly was disassembled. For flat, the model was always readily available forYellowPost,theteamstrategisedalternative quick design experiments. It also provided anways to make sure their folly could also have a opportunity to test paint application methods,consideredapproachtosustainability,which assess timing and explore how their shortlistedlargely focused on ways it could be reused by Resene colour options would contrast with thefuture competition winners. For materials, they surrounding natural vegetation on site. chose sustainably sourced glulam timber, Eco blackwhitemag.com 65'