Te Ara I Whiti - LightPath transforms an abandoned motorway off-ramp within Auckland’s central motorway junction into an elevated cycling and walking connection. Suspended above one of the city’s most infrastructural landscapes, the project reinterprets residual transport space as active urban corridor - converting engineered redundancy into civic opportunity.

The design responds to the layered motorway networks, constrained geometry and dramatic infrastructural context of the site. Rather than conceal the surrounding motorway environment, the path engages it - framing views, revealing scale and embracing the energy of the city’s movement systems. 

The existing structure is re-coded as a hybrid public space. A continuous pink surface establishes a clear and playful identity, while 300 individually programmed LED light poles form an interactive spine along the city edge. Sensor-controlled lighting responds to user movement, transforming the path into a living urban sculpture that shifts with intensity and occupation. The result is both transport infrastructure and experiential journey.

LightPath operates as mobility connector, cultural landmark and urban theatre. It demonstrates how landscape-led thinking can re-purpose infrastructure, enhance active transport and transform overlooked spaces into memorable civic experience.