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Shoe Box: An Analysis of the Concert Hall and its Adaption to Small-Scale Music Performance Space

Mauvan, John (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

In the first 150 years after 1600, western music was traditionally performed in palace ballrooms which were mostly rectangular in shape. In the following two centuries a change in social conditions led to the first halls ...
A Shore Thing - Flipping the Coast

Inwood, Thomas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

A Shore Thing explores an alternative approach to the way future development can occur within New Zealand’s coastal hinterland regions. As global cities continue to expand in size and population, the desire and necessity ...
Sight of Sound: Designing for the Senses

Shepherd, Kate (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

It has been agreed that one of Interior Architecture’s primary roles is to create atmosphere. This is generally achieved by engaging the senses in specific spatial conditions that shift the emotions and create moods. This ...
Simple Nomographs for Assessing Lighting in Urban Environments

Sandoval-Calderon, Tomas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

Incorporating different technologies and lighting techniques in the illumination of structures has allowed us to portray fantastic night time vistas of our cities. However, the success of the selected technique or technology ...
Simulating Psychedelic Therapy Through Mediated Reality

Hillstead, Andrew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Due to the illegality of psychedelic substances, and despite proven efficiency, people suffering from various psychiatric illnesses and disorders are unable to receive potentially life-changing psychedelic therapy. With ...
Simulation of Imagined Realities: Environmental Design Decision Support Tools in Architecture

Donn, Michael Robert (Victoria University of Wellington, 2004)

The spur for this research was a lack of use by architecture practitioners of the environmental design decision support tools (eddst’s) they learn to use during their education. It was hypothesised that lessons for the ...
Sisyphus and Entropy; Adaptive Architecture in Flood Prone Nanjing

Leurquin, Arnaud (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis attempts to rationalize two diverging practices in Architectural discourse, that of Western pedagogy and that of the ‘Other’. A disparity in approach to understanding architecture as a permanent object, can be ...
Situating the Situationists: The Disruption of a Domesticated Architecture

Keane, Ross (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

This research seeks to place Situationist theory into a domestic context through a critical reading of Guy Debord and the Internationale Situationnistes’ writings. Challenging the notion of a domesticated architecture, ...
Skin to Skin: A Provocative Expression of the Dynamic Relationship Between the Surface of the Body and the Surface of Architecture

Ibbotson, Thomas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

It can be argued that modern architecture has expelled the building’s relationship to the ground. Raised on pilotis, modern buildings constructed the platform as an artificial ground plane. Ultimately, the platform was a ...
SmartCharge Digital Streetscape: Integrating mobile phones more urbanistically through streetscape interventions

Scheurich, Jessica (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Mobile phone technology is rapidly changing our world, how we interact with one another, and our built environment. This thesis investigates how we can integrate mobile phone technology more urbanistically. There is a ...
Smart Games: Emergent Game Design

Johnstone, Keaton (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Gaming is a rapidly growing recreational activity. Over the last two decades we have seen a proliferation of games across all genres and user demographics. The consumption of content in modern games has grown as a result ...
Smart Tray: Speculating The Future New Zealand Dining Experience

Levy, Joe (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This research proposes a design solution that embraces New Zealander’s proclivity for pervasive digital technology and that aims to meet the needs and desires of the future Kiwi dining experience. This research proposition ...
Socialising Church Space

Young, Thaddeus (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

For hundreds of years the Christian Church stood as the pillar of occidental cities, structuring society and the urban fabric. At the time of European colonisation, the impact of the Church on New Zealand society was less ...
Socialising Office Space: Flexibility through a layering of multiple programs in traditional office buildings.

Wyatt, Brad (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This design-research project explores extending the flexibility of a typical 1960s open-plan office building. Through the use of cross-programming, the building now works along a 24- hour timespan. Housing a co-working ...
Social Media Platforms for Construction Project Management

Rawalai, Viliame (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

There is a need for all stakeholders of building process to interact efficiently and effectively. However, this is not always possible due to the different knowledge background and complexity of building projects. Technologies ...
Songlines: Preserving cultural heritage through architecture

Carr, Sheldon (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

In indigenous Australian culture, the ‘Songlines’ represent the routes across the landscape followed by the original ‘creator-beings’ of the ‘Dreaming’. The ‘Songlines’ describe the locations of mountains, waterholes, ...
A Sordid Chronicle of Outer Suburbia

Dooley, Ashton (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

A reflection on worldly trends arouses the question as to what new attributes our Earth will manifest in the next 85 years by 2100. What effects have we wrought in a lifetime of procreation, consumption and production? ...
Soundscapes

Smith, Joseph (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

When you are listening carefully with your eyes closed, in a church, or a forest, you engage in attentive listening. Taking a moment to visualize the world from its sounds, a complete environment begins to form, rich in ...
Sovereign Sense

Majurey, Dylan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

The South Pacific Island of Funafuti, Tuvalu is at threat of becoming one of the first countries globally to be Inundated due to rising sea levels. The likely result is that the people of this country will lose a sense of ...
Space Port City: Assembling Resilience for Bluff, Southland

Gorton, William Scott (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Bluff, a small industrial fishing township, situated at the spit of the southernmost point of New Zealand stands isolated and desolate. A place that is static in time, with an uncertainty of the township’s future in relation ...