Ethos

Sustainability

Future First - Environmental design is a fundamental part of our practice. An architecture of reduction is a core value for us.

Education - Increase environmental awareness and educate our clients about the options available to them.

Research alternative solutions and implementation of environmental sustainability, matched with promoting materials and resources that come from renewable sources.

Social Responsibility - Engage with local Iwi to better understand Māori perspectives around the whenua and sustainability.

Respect our interdependence with the surrounding cultural and physical environments and the way they shape our understanding.

Design - Consider amenity values and character of urban design qualities and carbon footprint.

Promote and design for the use of environmentally friendly transport such as public transport, electric vehicles, cycling and walking.

Reduce carbon footprint through materials specifications.

Office Practice - Use sustainable and environmentally friendly business practices. Minimise our impact on the environment by cutting pollution and waste through returning samples, recycling paper and plastic waste.

Consider the ongoing effects throughout MOAA’s decision making process in both office management and project specification.

Character

Integrity - One of the most important things we have is our word - we pride ourselves on our commitment and responsiveness to client needs. We take this seriously.

Honesty - We will establish a project culture where design, processes and ideas can be respectfully challenged and received and team members feel safe and included.

Tikanga - MOAA will remain receptive, ready to learn and open to alternative solutions which best reflect Tikanga and best practice. 

We are willing to listen and learn. 

Our team maintain close relationships with specialist advisors in the learning and cultural fields. 

Drive

Drive - We work with the best clients and pride ourselves on the friendly and approachable way we deliver our services.

MOAA actively engages in professional development and regularly attends national and international educational conferences and workshops. 

We are innovative, energetic and passionate about good design and committed to unique site specific, stakeholder specific design solutions.

MOAA are committed to good design and common sense sustainability, and pedagogical drivers to inform the design.

Relationship - We establish a good working relationships with the key personnel to work in partnership to achieve an outcome that achieves all parties goals. We build and maintain relationships during and long after the original project is complete.

MOAA specialises in actively engaging with clients and their communities to better understand the brief and their longer term aspirations. 

Bold ideas

Bold ideas - We don’t shy away from innovation we pursue it. Innovation is a fluid process that we identify early in projects and continue to seek with our clients. It is our speciality.

We avoid the predetermined, rather seeking design opportunities for each school within the unique functional, technical, regulatory and financial requirements of each project.

3D and Physical Models - A key part of MOAA’s design process is the preparation of 3D representations of the evolving design through both 3D images and physical models. This work is to help make design decisions. 3D images and physical models are also important to communicate to clients the design intent.

MOAA use robust in-house systems and processes to define, control and deliver projects.  

Collaborate

Collaborate - We encourage individual excellence but it is our collaborative spirit that allows us to lead. We work with brilliant minds from many professions and countries to bring genuine innovation to our projects.

Our architecture is the outcome of a collaborative process and constant inquiry. One of MOAA’s key strengths is our ability to listen, be patient and respond with solutions that exceed expectations. 

Consultation - Consultation is a key part of the master plan preparation. MOAA have a range of workshops and consultation processes to work with all stakeholder groups, Board of Trustees, senior management, staff, community, Whānau and iwi.