The Beating Heart of Piopiotahi

How could an existing National Park facilitate a community of people living in such a manner that social, cultural and economic values increase the ecological quality of the surrounding natural environment?

Piopiotahi village will become a living organ of the surrounding wilderness, where its active interventions in the landscape manifest from an overall driver of enhancing both the ecological and social essence of Piopiotahi. Research, education, and industry that embodies and physically engages with its immediate environment becomes the catalyst for ecological growth; giving purpose to its human occupation creating a rich and evocative relationship with our unique natural landscape.

The ecological incubator will become a safe haven for native flora and fauna to thrive in. With its connecting road to the bridge and central section of the settlement being lined with predator proof fencing with easily serviceable predator traps set into it, the ecological incubator not only protects its inhabitants as it also manages the pest populations in the surrounding native bush; creating habitat for the birdlife of the ecological incubator to disperse into.