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Stille: The Art of Being Silent

Macann, Emma (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This thesis discusses the importance for people within the confines of high-density, metropolitan cities to find a collective moment of retreat through an architectural landscape of silence. Silence is becoming a desired ...
The Stranger

Young, Christopher (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

How can humanity possibly become sustainable in the future if we cannot think or plan sustainably in the present? This project aims to challenge people’s current thinking, raising awareness that the issue of sustainability ...
Street ARt: Using Augmented Reality to Create Digital Street Art

Peacock, Stefan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

The long-imagined fiction of a digitally supplemented world is fast becoming a reality. Augmented Reality technology is advancing at a rapid rate, approaching mass adoption and use. Available to anyone with a modern mobile ...
Street perceptions: A study of visual preferences for New Zealand streetscapes

Gjerde, Morten (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

City leaders often make reference to their built and natural environments when they compete domestically or internationally for financial investment, tourism spending and high quality workers. These leaders are aware that ...
Strengthening Local Centres: Addressing Residential Proximity, Retail Convenience and Urban Amenity within Neighbourhood Centres

Brouard, Erica (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This research develops a set of design criteria to direct the enhancement of residential proximity, retail convenience and urban amenity within neighbourhood centres. Neighbourhood centres are an important part of a ...
Strengthening Workspaces: Adapting Wellington’s Earthquake Prone Heritage Buildings for Co-Workspaces

Vance, Lara (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

In the late 1960s the Wellington City Council surveyed all the commercial buildings in the city and marked nearly 200 as earthquake prone. The owners were given 15 years to either strengthen or demolish their buildings. ...
Stroke Rehabilitation

Kauraka, Patrick (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Upper limb rehabilitation after a stroke is vital when bringing a range of motion and strength back to a patient. Treatment for upper limb rehabilitation has come in many diverse methods over the years including the use ...
The structural reuse of Pinus Radiata in New Zealand

Forbes, Nicholas Henry David (Victoria University of WellingtonVictoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Masses of used Copper chromium arsenic (CCA) treated timber is deposited into landfill from light timber framed building deconstruction every year. This research explores the structural integrity of CCA treated timber and ...
STUDENT HOMELESSNESS : SHELTERING OUR FUTURE An Adaptable Approach to Underutilised City Spaces

Ramos, Caryl (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

The increasing housing demands from population growth creates a persistent housing shortage and unaffordability in our cities. Students are one demographic that is dramatically affected as they move closer to their education ...
A study of the potential for digital platforms to achieve design collaboration between homebuyers in the development phase of multi-user-oriented housing

Lo, Tian Tian Sky (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Urban development and densification are increasing rapidly; this fact has been globally reported. According to a 2014 United Nations report, the world population will increase by 25% in the next three decades. This significant ...
SubUrban Dream: Reinterpreting the suburban dream in Auckland's medium density housing

Read, Henry (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

The suburban dream has defined the Kiwi lifestyle since early European settlement. However, New Zealand’s growing cities are making this form of living increasingly unobtainable. The Auckland City Plan is aiming to ...
Suburban to Urban: Wellington High Density Family Housing

Curran, Emma (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

‘Suburban to Urban’ explores a family-focused high-density residential model as an inner-city alternative to the suburban detached home. The research responds to two key criteria; first how to meet the needs and desires ...
The Suitability of Double-Layer Space Structures for Super-Tall Buildings: A Study from Structural and Building Systems Integration Perspectives

Sutjiadi, Hendry Yahya (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

As buildings rise higher, designers face two major issues. Firstly, how to design efficient structures to resist the lateral loads that impact so greatly on tall buildings. Secondly, how to effectively integrate building ...
The Suitable Machine: Exploring style through storytelling to inform design

Kennedy, Ashleigh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

The Suitable machine demonstrates how aesthetic change can be made to a Continuous Positive Air Pressure (CPAP) device, allowing it to suit the visual style of a specified bedroom environment that has been described. Digital ...
Support for independence: Cross-generational Housing for Elderly & Millennial Students

Griffith, Johanna (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Statistics New Zealand estimates that by 2031, one in four Canterbury residents will be aged 65+ (Canterbury City Council). Accelerated ‘baby boomer’ population growth has shifted Christchurch’s current age distribution ...
Supporting the use of algorithmic design in architecture: An empirical study of reuse of design knowledge

Globa, Anastasia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

This thesis tests the reuse of design knowledge as a method to support learning and use of algorithmic design in architecture. The use of algorithmic design systems and programming environments offer architects immense ...
Sustainability in Prefabricated Architecture: A Comparative Life Cycle Analysis of Container Architecture for Residential Structures

Palma Olivares, Alejo Andres (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

The aim of this research is to establish whether container architecture in the residential sector of New Zealand is energy efficient in contrast with traditional houses built by different building materials. This study ...
Sustainability Taking Flight

Campbell, Alex (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This research project, Sustainability Taking Flight, explores the paradoxical relationship between the aviation industry and environmentally sustainable architecture. Developed around the middle of the twentieth century ...
Sustainable Urban Form Through Cluster Development: A Brisbane Case Study of Biodiversity and Water Life Cycles Responding to Socio-Economic Needs

Po, Daniel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

Brisbane is increasingly experiencing problems relating to ecological and water sustainability within the urban fabric. This is caused by developments that are overly focused on keeping itself sustainable but neglecting ...
Synergised Ecologies: How can Landscape architecture intervene in fragmented landscapes of infrastructure?

McLachlan, Eve Louise (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This practice-led research critically investigates development patterns in transitional peri-urban landscapes through the lens of landscape design. Concerned with prevailing atomised land use, over-scaled infrastructures ...