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Unseen - Digital interactions for low vision spatial engagement

Cooper, Zachary (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Visually impaired persons possess a specific set of functional and sensory requirements for their successful existence in architectural environments. Unfortunately, a majority of our existing built infrastructure is ...
Upcycling plastic waste through empirical implementation of large-scale 3D printing

Ritthisri, Watcharawat (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Plastic waste presents a real global challenge and a threat to health, environment and the global economy. While awareness of the devastating effects of plastic waste on the environment has increased, the production of ...
Upcycling Wild Pigeon's Field in a post-hydrocarbon Brunei - An Exploration of Architecture Reacting to Social Changes Through Narratives

Piw Pg Dr Hj Ismail, Ak Hj Saifulnizam (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The hydrocarbon industry has immensely influenced and moulded the societal structure of the inhabitants of modern day Brunei. Nonetheless, the dependency on this commodity will eventually cease, shifting the future social ...
Upliving - Student Accommodation

Roberts, Joshua (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This research proposal looks into the future at an increase in student population, an increase in basic living costs, the looming issues with densification of Wellington City, and its development to the transport infrastructure. ...
Up the Guts

Dalley, Emily (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Like many contemporary green field developments, Hataitai started in the twentieth century as stock grazing land and was slowly taken over by low density suburban housing. This organic development resulted in roads following ...
The Urban Backyard: Resilient spaces for urban dwellers.

Hemi, Thomas (2018)

The unsustainable nature of New Zealand’s ongoing suburban expansion is reflected by our self-entitled obsession with owning space or land. In a survey commissioned by Mitre 10 (Mitre 10, 2014), 1500 New Zealanders were ...
Urban biodiversity in an era of climate change: Towards an optimised landscape pattern in support of indigenous wildlife species in urban New Zealand

Rastandeh, Amin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Biodiversity is the basis of life on the planet Earth. Without biodiversity, ecosystems and the life within them will not thrive. Nevertheless, biodiversity currently grapples with unprecedented challenges attributed to ...
Urban blue space: An Architectural exploration into Sea-Level-Rise Resilience and the future of South Dunedin

Greer, Ali J. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Due to anthropogenic climate change, sea level rise (SLR) will cause low-lying coastal areas such as South Dunedin, New Zealand, to be permanently flooded, jeopardizing future viability as a commercial and residential ...
The urban brewery

Wrigley, Jeane (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

The effects of an increasingly global and mass produced marketplace has led to a change in consumer values. In an attempt to mediate the current marketplace where consumers are beginning to experience exhaustion as their ...
Urban Compression: Incremental Strategies for Achieving Suburban Densification

Wardle, Tegan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Background: Sprawling, car related development dominates and destroys natural landscapes and productive farm land at the edges of urban centres. Yet, suburbs continue to grow outwards to meet New Zealanders’ preferences ...
Urban Embroidery: The Predicament Regarding the Incoherence of Wellington's Landscape

Grieve, Charlotte (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Since Wellington’s establishment as a British colonial town in 1839 its townscape has evolved rapidly - becoming aesthetically complex, multifaceted and increasingly incoherent. New Zealand cities have characteristically ...
Urban Ensembles: An integrated approach to design in steep, urban landscapes

Burnett, Myren (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Urban Ensembles explores the way in which landscape and architecture can be employed together within the design of a steep, urban site. Lyttelton is a small port town on the border of Christchurch, settled in the foothills ...
Urban Form and Passive Design for High Performance Buildings in the Christchurch Rebuild

Creswell-Wells, Tavis (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

“One of the most basic and fundamental questions in urban master planning and building regulations is ‘how to secure common access to sun, light and fresh air?” (Stromann-Andersen & Sattrup, 2011). Daylighting and natural ...
Urban Microclimate Analysis for High Performance Office Buildings

Li, Jing (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

This research explored whether urban microclimate analysis has significant impacts on high-performance office buildings. It studied the effects of detailed three-dimensional urban microclimate modelling on building performance ...
Urban Riverscapes: Reconnecting Urban Environments With the River Landscape

Fairgray, Elle (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Water is a fundamental component of New Zealand’s landscape, culture, history and identity. It is moving, changing form, accumulating and dispersing, it is ever changing never in the same context twice. Rivers are a single ...
Urban Trauma: The contemporary square and the New Urbanist city - Reintegrating Christchurch Cathedral Square

Chalmers, Benjamin J. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This topic was chosen in response to the devastation caused to Cathedral Square, Christchurch, New Zealand following earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. Working amongst the demolition bought to attention questions about how to ...
User Perception Benchmarks for Commercial and Institutional Buildings in New Zealand.

Dykes, Clare (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Buildings are ultimately built for people to use, so it is important that they are designed to suit the occupants’ needs. The indoor environment can affect the comfort, health, and productivity of occupants. Yet very little ...
Using BIM to calculate accurate building material quantities for early design phase Life Cycle Assessment

Berg, Brian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This research simplifies the calculation of the Initial Embodied Energy (iEE) for commercial office buildings. The result is the improved integration of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) assessments of building materials into ...
Using in-game biofeedback to induce player serenity

Ji, Kunyang (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Video games no longer predominantly emphasize mere entertainment or excitement, they now investigate more complex emotions. As a new dimension of player input, biofeedback (University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical ...
Us vs them: Tribalism, selective exposure & how non-partisan online news media engagement can be facilitated

Doran, Christopher (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Codeswitching is the action of switching between languages to better impart information to a recipient. This thesis introduces a set of codeswitching translator tools as a method of disrupting the potentially damaging ...