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  • Intensifying the Grid: A Typology for Medium Density Housing to Accommodate the Changing Demography of Wellington Suburbs 
    Stiles, Rose (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    The combination of an increasing population, changing demographics and an ageing housing stock is driving the need for new and more varied housing types. Attempts to address these concerns have been less than satisfactory, ...
  • Intensity at the Edge 
    Kelly, Hannah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    There is an inherent relationship between New Zealanders and the coast and has become part of our culture and identity. The coastal threshold is a place of emersion in time, surface and weathering process of materials and ...
  • Interior Infill - Urban Development Guide 
    Brosnahan, Michael (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This design research portfolio examines how interior architectural strategies might increase residential density through the adaptive reuse of historic buildings. The research aim is consistent with the Wellington City ...
  • Interiority of a Disconnected Mind 
    Cheetham, Sarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    As the population of New Zealand ages, the rate of people with dementia is also increasing, creating greater demand for specialised dementia facilities. However, few of these are located in the rural context that New Zealand ...
  • The Interiority of Sleep & Power 
    Walbran, Chloe Deanne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    This thesis explores interior immensity through the framework that targets the human being’s most inner self: the time human beings spend sleeping. The in-between state of sleep is left overlooked in architecture and leaves ...
  • Interlinked; A New Approach to Urban Expansion in Papamoa 
    Hinton, Kerry (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    New Zealand cities are prone to poor urban planning and have a strong tendency to expand out into widespread suburbs, consuming the fertile farmland and natural landscapes that reside at the fringes of urban development. These ...
  • Interlocking: The Phenomenological Apartment 
    Shepherd, Jared (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    New Zealand faces the need for more housing over the coming decades due to increasing population and a decreasing household size. An existing response is a trend of higher density apartment buildings within our inner cities. ...
  • Inter-transitional Architecture: New Spatial Models for Prisoner Reintegration in New Zealand 
    Brown, Emilia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    The aim of this research was to explore the design of transitional housing for newly released prisoners from the New Zealand prison environment. This was achieved through the development of an architecture that provides a ...
  • In the Neck of Time 
    Poojary, Snehal (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Numerous studies over the past decade have investigated to making human animation as realistic as possible, especially facial animation. Let’s consider facial animation for human speech. Animating a face, to match up to a ...
  • In the Wake of Change: An Urban Design Response to Rising Sea Levels in Wellington City 
    Oakley, Emily (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    This thesis focuses on possible urban design responses to a worst-case scenario for sea level change: a rise of one metre by the year 2100. Wellington City is comparable to many coastal cities around the world; much of ...
  • Intoxicating Impressions: Architecture to enlighten the imagination through the depth of reality 
    Gray, Amber Marie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Wine is created from the delicate and fragile craft of winemaking, a craft reliant on the balance of both science and art. Wine translates qualities and experience of space and creation through the sense of taste and smell. ...
  • Investigation into integration of digital manufacturing with ceramics 
    Brundell, James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Within the territory of crafts, it has long been thought that individuals’ proficiency and adeptness, which take long to attain or are presumably innate abilities, determine the quality, delicacy and value of the products, ...
  • An investigation of green space in a developing country city: The feasibility of creating a network of such spaces 
    Iswoyo, Hari (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    In developing countries a big issue for urban development is the growth in infrastructure in response to economic and population demands. Such development causes cities to expand and occupy the suburbs, turning them into ...
  • An investigation of the effects of large houses on occupant behaviour and resource-use in New Zealand 
    Khajehzadeh, Iman (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    According to Statistics New Zealand the average size of new New Zealand houses almost doubled from 1974‐2011 at the same time that occupancy reduced, meaning fewer people live in larger houses. Features of large houses are ...
  • Island and Field 
    Wilson, Cameron (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    We build transport infrastructure to move about the city efficiently. However, in New Zealand, it is often one-dimensional and disconnected from the urban fabric. This is the case in Hataitai, where State Highway 1 imposes ...
  • It Takes a Village: A collective approach to NZ housing 
    Whyte, Olivia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    Access to affordable, quality housing is a necessity that has become unattainable for many New Zealanders. Land values, property prices and rents continue to increase at rates higher than income growth. As urban populations ...
  • I want to share: Balancing collective and individual needs in New Zealand urban housing architecture 
    Walshe, Genevieve (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    In 2016 I visited Sargfabrik cohousing in Vienna and was intrigued and captivated by the rich, diverse and friendly atmosphere within the semi-public spatial and architectural realm, which I thought would never happen in ...
  • Japanese Garden Houses: Strategies for creating an interface with nature in New Zealand's urban dwellings 
    Shillington, Erin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    New Zealanders have a proud tradition of living close to nature (clean and green). This high interface with nature in traditional New Zealand dwellings is referred to as the “quarter-acre dream” by Mitchell (1972). However, ...
  • Just a Hunch: Reading, Writing, ... and Architecture 
    Simms, Elspeth Jane (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    Victor Hugo’s character, Claude Frollo, expressed Hugo’s linguistic analogy for architecture in his novel of 1831, Notre-Dame de Paris. Frollo directs the eyes of his companions from the book resting on his desk to the ...
  • Just a Phase? Assessment of the Potential for Phase Change Materials in New Zealand Buildings 
    Harland, Alice (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    Phase change materials in buildings could save energy and cost by bridging the gap between when energy is available and when it is needed. This is because they are capable of storing and releasing large amounts of energy ...

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