This project started as an exploration into how a city might start to express its regionalism and become a tourist hub for a wider region. Featherston is placed at the foot of the ?rimutaka? ranges, is a short bike ride from lake wairarapa, has many mountain trails originating from the town and has a quick link to the Wellington region through a railway line. The problem was that none of these features were expressed within the town.

This started as a group project between two other students and myself as we explored how featherston may become re-intergrated into it's region. We began by experiencing the region, talking with residents, and studying it's potential through GIS. A masterplan of the region, and the town, was created which was centred around the idea of 'integrating separation'. Integrating separation is an idea that this town is completely separated from what once, and still does, make it what it is. Through integrating the parts of the town which caused this separation, we think this town might  once again be a bustling hub of the Wairarapa.
 

My part of the project entered around re-establishing a north-south corridor which links the railway station to the centre of town and continues right through into the lake. It is an exploration into street design, town squares and parking lots while also looking into how infrastructure can express a position within the region.