Tāmaki Streets

Tāmaki Streets tests interventions from the Tāmaki Regeneration Masterplan at a neighbourhood scale, encouraging a shift toward walking, cycling, and public transport while celebrating community life and Tāmaki's natural landscape and identity.

Using a tactical urbanism approach, temporary interventions were trialled directly with the community, allowing viability to be tested and refined before any major capital investment.

The design drew on the tapa patterns of Pacific culture, translated into bespoke symbols reflecting Tāmaki's local landmarks, flora, and fauna. Applied along Anderson Ave and throughout the neighbourhood, these patterns bring street furniture, planters, roundabouts, and hoardings to life reinforcing Point England's shift toward a low-speed, people-first neighbourhood.

Stencil and paint were chosen deliberately for the medium's temporary, low-cost nature — a practical fit for a trial-based project, and an approach that kept the intervention accessible and easy to implement with the community.