Chloe Fernley

Kohi Hui

Bachelor of Design Retail Experience Interior Design Experience Design Story-telling Community Materiality

Chain inlets allow water allow water to flow through the interior crevices, creating shallow pools underneath each conversation table.

AD25 Award

Scentre Group Award

To be publicly exhibited by Scentre Group

to pause, gather and move.

Like water, we arrive from different paths yet merge as one. Rain traces movements, pooling into footprints that map our journeys to arrival. A Rain Gallery above and a Coffee Roastery below embody the dual nature of water, active and fluid, yet calm and grounding. As it moves through the site, water becomes both a metaphorical and physical carrier, tracing, shaping, and responding to human presence.

At 298 Broadway Street, Kohi Hui embodies manaakitanga, care and protection, inviting new relationships to gather. Rain enters through inlet chains connected to selected roof panels, dripping into interior crevices and flowing throughout the space. Inspired by Newmarket’s floodplain, the top floor subtly slopes, allowing water to pass beneath tables, “bridges for conversation.” Shallow pools gather underneath, where visitors’ feet gently touch the surface, creating a temporary artwork of footprints across the concrete, a fleeting journey recorded in fixed passage.

Voids carved from the original site connect Papatūānuku (the Earth) and Ranginui (the Sky). Water, as the lifeblood, joins these realms, guided by architecture, yet never restricted. Its untamed rhythm is embraced not as a threat but as a reminder of connection, resilience, and grounding.

“Ko te wai te ora o ngā mea katoa” - Water is the life-giver of all things.

Entry from Nuffield Lane, prompting intimate gatherings below.

01. Through water’s uncontrollable nature, there are moments when it must rest. Here, water pauses, reflecting on where it has arrived, allowing time to slow. Stillness becomes a mirror, inviting reflection. 02. The structure echoes the site’s natural circulation. Each end of the pipe gestures toward Broadway and Nuffield Lane, converging into a bowl that resembles the site, a place of meeting and collection. Water arrives from opposing paths, pooling in a shared element. A grounded structure beneath supports this act of gathering, anchoring the movements above. 03. This system embodies water’s countinous flow, always in motion, tracing the threshold between stillness and flow. A central opening draws water through, allowing it to pass and drip below. As it moves, a reflective surface mirrors its shifting patterns, capturing the fluidity of flow and form.