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01 Today · Sunday, 8 November 2026

Lantern Row.

assembl OS for architecture, running a fictional practice: three projects, five specialists, live New Zealand data. The practice is made up; the tools, tenders and data are real.

Example practiceLive NZ dataAgents draft · you approve

A drawing set, a scale rule and a small timber massing model on a dark desk — Fig. 01 / The practice, as a drawing setGenerated image

From line to life

Lakeside Hall, taking shape

Let the plan rise into a building. Explore its form, reveal the interior, or step into a room.

01Sketch

Preparing the building…

The room index and project details remain available below.

Use the timeline or select a stage

Build progression

Example project geometry. Design stages illustrate the proposal, not consent approval or actual construction progress. Room viewpoints are indicative; this is not a measured survey or an automatic drawing-to-model conversion.

Fig. 02Waiting on you

6 items · Example

Awaiting approvalby Rawa
Gully House: energy approach to note before lodging
The pre-check found no H1 method on the record, and the H1 edition to confirm. For the project architect to check.
Draftby Rawa
Lakeside Hall: deck amendment needs an E2 note
No weathertightness approach on the amendment record yet. Rawa can draft the note for the architect.
Awaiting approvalby Pai
Lakeside Hall: site visit report ready to send
Three observations with owners. Goes to the contractor, engineer and committee after you approve.
Draftby Ārai
Lakeside Hall: edge protection question for the site manager
Drafted from the visit notes and WorkSafe’s working at height guidance.
Draftby Kaupapa
Lakeside Hall: payment claim checklist for this month
Construction observation stage. For a director to check and send.
Draft
New GETS notices to review
Ranked for the practice. A lead to check, not a decision to bid.

03 Projects · Example

Three projects, three stages.

A finished reading room with a year of metered energy data, a hall with its frames up, and a house addition heading for consent. Each opens as a drawing set.

All projects

Study model of a gabled timber hall with its frames exposed at one end, beside a lake

LR-24-031 · Community hall

Under construction

Lakeside Hall

A tall gabled hall for 180 people, with a kitchen and stage that open to a deck on the lake side.

Study model of a long timber pavilion with a roof that lifts to a high clerestory

LR-23-014 · Public reading room

Complete · in use

Reading Pavilion

A single long room for reading, under a mono-pitch timber roof that lifts to the north light.

Study model of a two-storey timber addition on a steel frame stepping down a bush gully

LR-25-007 · House alteration and addition

Detailed design

Gully House

A two-storey addition to a 1950s house on a steep gully, stepping down the slope to the sun.

Fig. 04Live at the sites

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Fig. 05Consent check

4 flags · for architect review

Lakeside HallE2 · H1
Gully HouseH1 · H1

The Workforce consent rules read each project record and cite Building Code clauses by number. A flag is a prompt for the architect, never a verdict; the council decides a consent.

Fig. 06New tenders

GETS · last 30 days

GETSBuildingsRefurbishment and consenting
Main Building Contractor for AMS Upgrade & Refurbishment to Block 1 at Winchester Street School
Published 19 Oct 2026 · seen 19 Oct 2026
GETSBuildings
Main Building Contractor for Blk A B Toilets Heating Electrical Upgrades & Classroom Remediation at Taradale High School
Published 16 Oct 2026 · seen 16 Oct 2026
GETSBuildings
RFT for a Main Contractor for a new Hall for Chelsea Primary School
Published 27 Oct 2026 · seen 27 Oct 2026

Pursuit: tenders, pipeline, forecast

07 Team · Workforce

Five specialists who read before they write.

Each one fetches building.govt.nz, legislation.govt.nz, the LBP scheme or WorkSafe live, drafts, then checks its own draft against what it read. Authority level 2: Draft.

Ask a specialist

BIM and model coordinationAtaTurns a clash report or model check into a coordination note: what clashes, which discipline owns it, which Building Code clause an architect should look at.Building consentsRawaPrepares a consent set for lodging: a pre-check by Building Code clause, a document checklist and draft answers to council requests for information.Project deliveryKaupapaKeeps the job moving: programme changes, meeting actions, variation registers and payment-claim checklists under the Construction Contracts Act.Site health and safetyĀraiPrepares for a site visit: the hazards to ask about, the questions for the main contractor, and what a notifiable event would mean, from WorkSafe and the Act.Quality and inspectionsPaiTurns site observations into a defects list, gets ready for council inspections and checks what a code compliance certificate will need.

Existing assembl agent names, kept with their macrons, awaiting a fluent-speaker review.

Fig. 08Offices

New Zealand time · sunrise and sunset computed here

Tāmaki Makaurau · Auckland
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Pōneke · Wellington
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Fig. 09Free tools that feed this OS

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Lantern Row.

Fig. 02/Waiting on you

Three projects, three stages.

Lakeside Hall

Reading Pavilion

Gully House

Fig. 04/Live at the sites

Fig. 05/Consent check

Fig. 06/New tenders