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  • Retrofitting Memory: Retrofitting a Non-Physical Architecture 
    Low, Soon Yie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    This project looks at how destroyed architecture, although physically lost, fundamentally continues to exist within human memories as a non-physical entity. The site chosen is Avonside Girls’ High School in Christchurch, ...
  • Return to Vernacular Origins through Parametric Interpretation 
    Zhang, Yunjing (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Without any doubts, China has made a remarkable development in various fields in a last decade, and there are no any signs of that the paces of rapid development happened to China will slow down in the next decades. As a ...
  • Revealing Taranaki 
    Buhler, Natalie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    The concentration of people in urban areas has resulted in a disconnection from the rural community. Cultural landscapes become unused as people visit attractions that are more popular and easier to get to. As a result ...
  • Revisiting the Hillside: Organic, Aggregative Medium Density Housing in a Wellington Hillside Environment 
    Wenden, Matthew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    The ‘Conzen School’ of Urban Morphology identified by Kostof in his book The City Shaped, is a western way of looking at parcels of land, lots, and the street grid from above in a geometric manner imposed on the land, then ...
  • Revitalising the Heart: Addressing the vacant CBD of Rotorua 
    Dittmer, Zakary (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    The issue of abandoned retail stores is one that is evident throughout the country and at different scales throughout the world. The appearance leaves main streets and central business districts’ looking tired and run down ...
  • Revitalization and gentrification in Newtown: Can urban regeneration strengthen an existing community? 
    Wilson, Jennifer Bernice (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    This thesis examines gentrification and the process of urban regeneration through proposing an adaption of a modernist heritage building in Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand to prevent the displacement of an existing ...
  • Re: βRΔND!NG™→ 
    Melsom, Zane (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    This thesis investigates how to advance the theory of Anna Klingmann, an architectural brand theorist and the author of Brandscapes (2007). In Brandscapes Klingmann writes that people use brands to represent who they are ...
  • Ricky Stadium 
    Wojasz, Dawid Ryszard (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    The population of Wainuiomata (figure 1) is set to increase by 35% following Hutt City Council plans to build 2000 new houses. This increase has the potential to further erode a sense of community already weakened by the ...
  • Rise, Ruin & Regeneration: An Examination of the Regeneration of Post-War Suburban State Housing in New Zealand 
    Arps, James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    Over 70 years since it was completed, the house at 12 Fife Lane, Miramar, New Zealand’s first state house, looks unchanged. However, the intervening years have seen the failure of some state housing models, the deteriorating ...
  • A River's Call: An Architectural Response 
    Buxton, Bridget (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    The Whanganui River was the first in the world to be granted the status of a legal person. Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Bill was passed on 16 March 2017 after a 140-year long campaign by Whanganui Iwi. ...
  • Road to Restoration 
    Lock, Thomas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    Anxiety and depressive disorders are the second leading cause of health loss for New Zealanders. In particular, students are primarily a high-risk group. They are at the age when most when mental health disorders first ...
  • Robotic Arm Prefab Panels: A Proof of Concept 
    Stricot-Tarboton, Glen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    Prefabrication is a technique currently used in construction all over the world. The efficiencies of prefabrication allow for a more affordable and sustainable method of construction. This form of mass production is achieved ...
  • The Robotic Craftsman: Robotic Fabrication for Complex Timber Connections 
    Heesterman, Mikayla (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    Timber is one of the most sustainable and renewable construction materials; coupled with computational tools engineered timber has the potential to be redefined as a digital-age material for non-standard architecture. This ...
  • Robotic Feedback Loops: Implementing two-way communication in architecturally focused robotic pick and place operations 
    Le Fevre, Harrison (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    The use of robots in the fabrication of complex architectural structures is increasing in popularity. However, architectural robotic workflows still require convoluted and time-consuming programming in order to execute ...
  • Robotic Spatial Printing For Designers 
    Gilbertson, Liam (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This research developed a fully-integrated robotic printing system, using new methods of additive manufacture (AM) that enables users to explore spatially printed structures with increased freedom of geometric complexity ...
  • The Role of Architects in Post Disaster Reconstruction 
    Hulme, Jessica (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    In post-disaster reconstruction in underdeveloped countries, architects all too often create design solutions with little appreciation of the environment in which their solutions are expected to work. The disaster context ...
  • The Role of Architectural Design in Enhancing Place Attachment for Older Adults in Retirement Communities 
    Shiran, Masoumeh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    New Zealand, like many other countries, is experiencing a significant change in its population. According to Statistics New Zealand (2015), the number of people aged 65 and over (65+) is on the rise, having doubled since ...
  • Roll On - Roll Off 
    McKenzie, Mitchell (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    During the final months of 2011 the New Zealand government revisited a 50 year old proposal to move the inter-island ferry terminal, currently located in Picton, to a site bordering on both Lake Grassmere and the Clifford ...
  • Rothko on Speed-Dial: Explorations of the Metaphysical Spatiality, Aura, and Mechanical Reproduction of Architecture 
    Aui, Jansen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    This research explores the relationship between architectural space and the abstract expressionist art of Mark Rothko. Rothko’s large format, post-1950’s paintings employing his signature ‘color-field’ style instigated ...
  • The Ruins of Eloquence 
    Hembrow, Antony (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    On the 22nd of February, 2011 the city of Christchurch, New Zealand was crippled by a colossal earthquake. 185 people were killed, thousands injured and what remained was a city left in destruction and ruin. Thousands of ...

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