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  • A Life Cycle Assessment of Medium Density Houses in New Zealand 
    Ganda, Sanjeev (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    This study develops an analysis method that designers can use to undertake a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) on multiple building designs to inform design decisions and trials this on Medium Density Housing (MDH). Measuring ...
  • Life Lessons from the Landscape: Spatial Education for Earthquake Preparedness 
    McGavock, Samantha Kate (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    Architecture can be conceived and designed as an active participant in enhancing awareness of the prevalence of seismic activity by illuminating the unremitting transformation of the landscape and providing places where ...
  • Lifestyle and Embodied Energy: A Proposed Hybrid Analysis Method for Housing 
    Leah, Adele Louise (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This thesis set out to form a bridge between the disciplines of architectural history, social and women’s history, building technology and environmental assessment, by investigating changes to existing houses over time and ...
  • Liminal landscapes: Configuring dualities of ruralism and urbanism to retain cultural values in Cambodia's urban center 
    Chhim, Chao Son Anthony (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    With the rise of urbanization and more job opportunities in the city, there is a common trend of the younger rural demographic migrating to the urban center seeking work to provide for their family. With modern cities ...
  • Limited Use Only. How Can the Design of an Everyday Object Evoke an Initiation of Use in Chronic Stroke Survivors 
    Lemke, Mailin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Stroke causes significant damage to the brain and affects 15 million people annually worldwide. Symptoms commonly affect one or both limbs on one side of the body, limiting ability to perform daily activities. The preferential ...
  • A line of best fit: Re-stitching earthquake prone buildings and re-connecting pedestrian networks in Wellington City 
    Stewart, Charlotte (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    A Line of Best Fit explores weakness and disconnection in the city. Weakness: There are over 600 earthquake prone buildings in Wellington. The urgency to strengthen buildings risks compromising the aesthetic integrity of ...
  • LINKages 
    Lambert, Caitlin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    Currently, there is a negative trend in the way small New Zealand towns are developing, ignoring community values and a sense of identity. New Zealand, a country renowned for the beauty of its small towns and wild natural ...
  • Little Old Urbanism: A suburban shift from building to block 
    Parbhu, Hamish (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Hataitai forms part of a shift from countryside to cityscape. The village grew organically through the turn of the 20th century and is now heritage listed as a “good example of commercial growth” from this period. As ...
  • Live Large in Small Spaces 
    Bloxham, Danae (Victoria University of WellingtonVictoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    The ‘kiwi dream’ of home ownership has become less attainable because of increases in housing costs. Unaffordability is linked with the house price to income ratio, especially within urban ...
  • The Living Barrier: Residential architecture acting as a noise barrier near railway corridors 
    Lim, Jonathan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    As urban regions increase in population and density, the need for quietness and spaces of relative calm becomes important to inhabitants’ physiological and psychological health and wellbeing. Noises, and the sounds that ...
  • A Living Building for the Chinese Diaspora of Aotearoa 
    Lee, Caitlyn (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    It is quite apparent that our planet and our very being is in a state of disrepair. My thesis seeks to answer the question: How can the built environment heal nature and a community? More specifically, can a framework ...
  • Living in Generosity: The Making of a Refugee Resettlement Centre 
    Affandi, Mohamad Ali (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Generosity naturally reflects the idea of abundance, larger or plentiful. However, generosity as a language in architecture is vaguely understood, as it has neither a particular scheme nor definite form. This thesis focuses ...
  • Living on the Edge - Defining Shipbreaking at the Edge of Globalisation in Alang, India 
    Dromgool, Edward (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Forty thousand men on the coastline of Alang, India, dismantle a large portion of the world’s discarded ships in a process referred to as shipbreaking. The discarded vessels are dismantled piece by piece, with no more than ...
  • Living on the edge: Occupying the facade to enrich urban density 
    Alcorn, Keziah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Living on the edge critiques oppressive aspects of urban living. It advocates façade occupation to enhance the experience of density and enrich the street edge to achieve a vibrant and metropolitan New Zealand. Sited ...
  • Living with Fukushima 
    Somerville, Ruby (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Nuclear power is a highly disputed and powerful industry that continues to grow worldwide alongside safer renewable resources. No country seemed to have as much unwavering faith in the nuclear industry as Japan, until the ...
  • Localise It 
    Sobye, Anna (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    Wellington is located on a fault line which will inevitably, one day be impacted by a big earthquake. Due to where this fault line geographically sits, the central city and southern suburbs may be cut off from the rest of ...
  • Localising urbanism 
    Jackson, Alexandra Ione (Victoria University of WellingtonVictoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This research began as a personal dissatisfaction with how the notion of indeterminacy very commonly gets used in contemporary landscape architectural design discourse and practice, most strongly associated with but not ...
  • Loose Space Lexicon: Design Tactics for Facilitating Appropriation in Urban Gaps 
    Bangs, Matthew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Wellington has an underlying network of ‘leftover’ (Cupers and Miessen) spaces awaiting activation. Their potential is masked by the deterministic view cast upon them by the wider architectural discipline. However, there ...
  • The Lost, Erased, Unseen and Forgotten: Translating into Architecture the New Zealand Wars 
    Shaw, Geordie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    There is a perception amongst New Zealanders that our country was forged at Waitangi in 1840 with a shaking of hands and pressing together of noses. However, in actuality it emerged from a drawn out war of fear and ...
  • Lost in Transition: Designing for Refugee Integration in New Zealand 
    Ab Latif, Fathila Mardeyah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Political unrest and internal conflict over recent years had forcefully displaced millions of people. As a result, the developed countries of the world are pressured to take in more refugees and New Zealand is included in ...

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