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Medium Density - Adaptable Amenity: A flexible housing system to facilitate change and maximise production efficiencies

Robertson, Tom (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Medium-density Group Housing (“MDH”) has been defined as “a number of horizontally attached (or directly related) dwellings which are normally of one or two stories and rarely exceed three stories above the ground” (Judd ...
The Memories of Our Future: The Memories of Maūi

Lenihan, Shannon (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This thesis proposes a way to re-inhabit and transform the adverse identity of an old offshore oil and gas platform. Located 35 kilometers off the West Coast of Taranaki, New Zealand, the Māui A Platform (also known as ...
The Memory That Remembers Us

Jones, Mitchell (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Future habitation of earth is an ever-increasing concern, with the proliferation of problems such as overpopulation, climate change, nonviable waste disposable methods and over-consumption of natural resources. These issues ...
Messagerunner: Gamifying Behavioural Change Through Mobile Media

Cheng, Xudong (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This research proposes a design solution that integrates gamification and behavioural change theories into a mobile fitness application to promote and maintain physical activity for young adults. This research proposes ...
Message threads: Exploring interpersonal communication through smartphones: how we weave our lives in a hypermediated world

Verkerk, Jayn (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This thesis is about human behaviour as it relates to computer mediated communication. Smartphones are an accepted part of everyday life. We use them to wake us up in the morning, we play games on them while we wait for ...
Midblock: Reimagining the role of the underutilized suburban midblock section

Stichbury, Peter (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Our society’s inclination towards larger homes upon individually owned land titles has produced vast suburban sprawl, attributing a great deal of societal division and infrastructural strain. A feature exacerbating the ...
Minimum ++

Cheng, Lu (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Living quality and experience in medium or higher density student housing in Wellington is suffering from the inconsiderate internal spaces and underutilised common areas. The aim of this design-led research thesis is to ...
Mirror VR: The design of a fully immersive virtual reality game for upper limb rehabilitation post-stroke using mirror therapy

Leniston-Kahsai, Senai (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Motor rehabilitation post-stroke requires practice that is high-intensity, repetitive, task-specific, challenging, and goal-oriented to promote neuroplasticity to maximise functional recovery outcomes. There is concern ...
Mnemonic Oasis: Interior architecture as a stimulus for wellbeing through sensorial experience

Schubach, Trevon (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

In today’s society the priority of work and careers has resulted in highly stressful environments. In the twenty-first century the tendency of inflated urban centres has encouraged people to move to the cities and as the ...
Moisture in New Zealand Bathrooms - Analysing Moisture Events

Stubbe, Alister (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

A literature review was carried out on the impact of moisture in New Zealand homes as well as the role ventilation and occupant behaviour play in controlling this. Bathrooms in residential homes were identified as being ...
Mortal Infill: Finding space for the dead in today's suburbs

Powell, Martin Neil Smith (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

The spaces set aside for the dead in contemporary cities have been shifted to the periphery. As a result the built fabric of today’s suburbs does little to acknowledge the mortality of their inhabitants. This thesis ...
The Most Potent Unifying Force: Using Architecture to Reflect the Essence of Sport in the Post-Disaster Context

Lewis, Arran (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Natural disasters have immense impacts on the physical environment but they also affect communities and individuals on a widespread mental level. Disasters disrupt personal and community identity, sense of belonging and ...
Moving forward: Future proofing stilt home interiors while incorporating cultural identity

Meng, Vety (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Kampong Cham is a province in Cambodia that is prone to annual flooding. This affects many families and causes damage and displacement of households every year. This research aims to offer a design solution that enables ...
Moving Forwards, Looking Backwards: Re-Contextualising Maori Concepts and Understandings of the Living Environment.

Scott, Hana (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Māori have a unique relationship with the built as a living environment; it is a being—an ancestor, to be respected. Michael Linzey in his essay; ‘Speaking to and talking about Māori Architecture’, distinguishes Maori ...
Multifunctionality as a Strategy to Decrease Resource Use in Building Envelopes

Gerhardt, Clara H. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

The growing use of renewable and non-renewable resources by human society is increasingly seen as one of the root causes of the occurring imbalance in the global ecosystem. The effects are inter alia made responsible for ...
My History is Not Mine

Myo Min, May (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Globalisation has helped spread Eurocentric modernist architectural principles across most cultures. In a very real sense, many Eastern cultures are having their own unique architectural histories rewritten, even erased, ...
My VRchive. Developing a Methodology for creating Immersive Gaming Content and Interaction for Virtual Reality

van Rooyen, Gerrit Jacobus (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Writing for and designing a methodology for Virtual Reality (VR) can be difficult as the technology around this medium grows at a fast pace. Many game designers and directors of VR experiences still claim to make things ...
Nails in New Zealand 1770 to 1910

Isaacs, Nigel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This paper reviews the earliest records of metal nails in New Zealand, and then provides a comprehensive New Zealand review from the 1840s to 1910s of nail imports, published newspapers, trade catalogues and patents. It ...
The Naked Hunch: Designing a bathhouse with the aim of destigmatising the naked body

Ong, Olivia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Collective and biased perceptions constantly reinforce social stigmas surrounding the naked body. Bodies of difference, those that deviate from societal norms are often considered ‘othered’ and as a result of this, judged ...
Natural, Wearable Game Controllers

Steel, Emily (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Natural, wearable game controllers explores how people interact with games and their potential uses. Since the early days of personal computing video games have been used for more than just fun. Such uses include exploration ...