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Possibilities for a Post-Colonial Architecture in Residential New Zealand

Blandford, Joshua (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

The ability of architecture to mediate cultural identities, and prescribe spatial practices, empowers it as it provides an avenue through which it can persuade, legitimate, or dominate physical space; not only in terms of ...
Power Play: Visualising Electricity Use as Emoji

Reyes, Ariel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

With the prevalence of emoji, digital pictographs in computer mediated communication, this thesis investigates the suitability of using emoji to represent energy use. With research participants and in partnership with a ...
Pre-CAD-Frication: Re-establishing Automotive Paradigms to a Manufactured Architecture

Anderson, Shaun Anthony (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Through the late Twentieth Century, leading vehicle manufacturers increasingly eschewed the drive from mass production and instead focused upon lean production, where output has been determined according to demand. Automotive ...
Predicting Archeology: Static Architecture in Time

Davies, Jack (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

The explosion of computer propelled technology has affected architectural creation in every way. Achitecture as space is now considered corporeal from the moment the computer screen is powered. Time as a design driver’s ...
Predicting outdoor thermal comfort in urban areas

Toner, Victoria Jo Louise (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Outdoor thermal comfort is key to creating vibrant outdoor urban spaces. The built form is able to modify solar radiation and wind. However, there is currently no way of considering the effect of the built form on thermal ...
Prefabricated Futures: Adaptable and productive construction methods for New Zealand dwellings

Holden, Mitchell (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

The traditional construction method of the New Zealand home has remained largely unchanged over the last century. These housing solutions that have supported our nation no longer suffice and the ‘young home owner’ is ...
Preference Planning and Unsustainable Desires: A Hypothesis toward 'How' Contextual and Psychological Factors Influence Travel Attitudes through Qualitative and Quantitative Measures

Betanzo, Domenico (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Counter to the prevailing view that sees travel attitudes as influencing neighbourhood location decisions, this dissertation sets out to examine if where individuals choose to live has an effect on travel attitudes. To ...
A Presence of Ariā - Within the Indigenous corporate body

Pepere, Raana (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

“Without consciously looking at them, we breath in our surroundings with all our senses.” - Christopher Day Te Aō Māori revolves around a holistic world view and similarly, this paper too begins there. There is this ...
Preserving the Outstanding

Barth, Nick (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Tongariro National Park lies in the central North Island, and is home to one of the most accessible and incredible volcanic regions in the world. The largest volcano in the park, Mt Ruapehu, gets the most use for supporting ...
Printable Prosthetics

Baynes, Stuart (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

The practice of fitting and making prosthetic limbs using current techniques leaves little room for innovative research and design. Though market leaders are consistently producing more advanced components, prosthetic ...
Printed Space: Critically Exploring the (Re)production of Meaning in Architecture

Mereau, Matthieu (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This research is an exploration of meaning in architecture, considering architectural meaning as cultural production. My thesis expands the notion of architecture from the mere design and implementation of built forms ...
Printing People. Heterogeneous Multi-Property Printing of Humanoid Anatomics

Whitham, Samantha (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Film and television (TV) have been a way to view unthinkable worlds for many years. Physical props are a fundamental part of many films as they help to portray the story in the real world, which results in a more believable ...
Procedural Gothic: Regenerating Wellington's 19th Century Timber Churches

McLennan, Samuel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This research looks at using the technique of procedural modelling to investigate the characteristic rules present within a loosely defined architectural style. The 19th-century timber Gothic churches built in the city of ...
Processors and Processes: Exploring Computational Design and Landscape Architecture

Belesky, Philip (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

The computer can be a highly efficient drafting table. It can also be much more. Architects can use programming to engage with the computer on its own terms, and in doing so gain a better understanding of complex geometric, ...
Process + Product: The condition of low-cost housing in Bangkok, Thailand

Brown, Samuel Peter (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

The low-income housing situation in Bangkok, Thailand, is similar to that faced in many developing cities throughout the world. The housing opportunities afforded to residents classed as low-income dwellers, are minimal, ...
Progenitor: An exploration of indigenous values and waterway management through immersive digital landscapes

Tariau, Dylan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Over the last One hundred years water quality of New Zealand harbours and waterways have diminished due to the unconcern of infrastructural development and poor public waterway and harbour awareness. By exploring the ...
A Projective Site: Inhabiting the Metaphorical Interval between the Instrumental and Symbolic Meanings of Architecture

Roberts, Nicholas John (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Historically, there have been two ways of perceiving space that have been considered opposed to one another and that have significant implications for the way in which architecture is understood. The first is real space, ...
Public Space Intimacy

Royfee, Alexander (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Architects historically devote their analytical and critical attention to architecture as an object, as a monument, separate to its context. Consequently, this thesis explores how architecture can create intimacy in public ...
Public Streets for Multicultural Use: Exploring the Relationship between Cultural Background, Built Environment, and Social Behaviour

Lesan, Maryam (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Public space is the domain of interest for urban planners and designers and the most important type of public space is streets. Public spaces, and particularly busy streets in urban centres, provide opportunities for people ...
Push, Pull, Shrink, Grow: The co-share workplace interior that reflects changing spatial needs

Wyborn, Rebecca (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This thesis explores how co-working offices emerged as a solution to the shift in the social expectations of the workplace. It studies how the rise in the number of freelancers and entrepreneurs has resulted in the ...