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  • Cabin Fever: Exploring the Possibility of a Wilderness Experience 
    Inglis, Brittany (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    New Zealand’s backcountry huts do not stimulate a meaningful connection between the occupant and their surrounding natural environment. Generic solutions provided by the Department of Conservation are dictated by a nostalgic ...
  • Camouflage--Architecture: Testing the Architectural Application of Neil Leach’s Camouflage Theory as a Model of Place-Identity 
    McLauchlan, Ben (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    Discussion within architectural Place–identity theory has taken a shift. It has moved toward a more fluid condition. With traditional structures of identity holding less value to society, and imagery becoming more ...
  • Capital Gateway 
    Russell, Michelle (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This thesis analyses modern transport interchanges in the context of the current Wellington Railway Station, to then ask: How can interior architecture optimise the use function of a concourse within a transport interchange? ...
  • Car Park House Share: Reclaiming Wellington's Car Parking Buildings 
    Dodd, Luke (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This thesis anticipates that inner city car parking buildings will become vacant as new car ownership models, such as car sharing, reduce the number of cars parked in cities. “Collaborative consumption” is changing the way ...
  • A Case For Student Housing: A holistic approach to student housing in the modern University learning environments. 
    Swift, Jordan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    Learning and teaching methods in universities globally and in New Zealand are rapidly changing and adapting to technological advancements and virtual methods of information communication. As new research begins to shed a ...
  • Celebrating Difference: Architectural Conflation within an Urban Fabric 
    Anderson, Casey (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    Celebrating Difference questions New Zealand’s current civic architecture, and the way we will design these environments in the future. This thesis explores various cultural literary precedents supported by two detailed ...
  • Celebrating the Spectacular: Discovering the New Enabled Through Performance Art 
    Richards, Fenella (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Social exclusion is a common problem facing amputees, however, there has been a development in the sporting context that has begun to change how amputees are perceived with the help of new technologically advanced and ...
  • Cemented in Time: Concrete Bungalows designed by Cambridge Architect James Thomas Douce 1914-1928 
    Gainsford, Jennifer M. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    This study examines the significant architectural commissions of James Thomas Douce in Cambridge and the surrounding districts between1914 and 1928. The major component of the thesis will encompass a historical and an ...
  • A Choreography of Human Transition: Strategic Insertion of an Intervention 
    Laing, Toby Paton (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Spatial anxiety is very real. Historically this concept has been utilised in the architecture of restraint (Johnston, 42), where punishment is based heavily on isolation and the limitation of freedom. Under these ...
  • Cine-ture Interior Architecture Intervention Shaped By Cinematic Conventions 
    Strawbridge, Sarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    There is limited research which analyses cinema, void of a film's narrative from an architectural perspective. This is relevant when analysing the immaterial experience of 'cinematic architecture' and the effects it has ...
  • Circling Communities 
    Barr, Philippa (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    There are works of architecture that are concerned with the user and others that are heavily concerned with form. Although the best buildings are concerned with both, it is often that one is compromised for the other. The ...
  • A Circular City: An empirical approach to 3D printed up-cycling 
    Cameron, Sophia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Among many exacerbating environmental issues, plastic debris, with ubiquity and abundance, has significant impacts on local and global communities, environments and species. Contrary to common assumptions, New Zealand is ...
  • The City is a Stage: Innovation beyond the Theatre Space 
    Courtney, Sarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    "[The] product of architecture can at least partly be understood as an endless live performance" (Van Berkel & Bos, 2008 , p. 135). As central cities such as Wellington become more event orientated, there is a greater ...
  • A city is not a tree 
    Richards, Michael (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    This research investigates the generation of urban environments through the use of visual programming tools. These tools enable the procedural creation of architectural geometries for installation in design environments, ...
  • City of Flux: Liberating the Concrete Terrain 
    Carden, Tara-Lee (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    In recent decades the world has increasingly become aware of our role in the continual degradation of our planet’s natural environment. One of the most influential and controversial issues of the Twenty First Century is ...
  • City to Flood: A new urban planning model for urban adaptation to climate change induced flooding in Dunedin 
    Neill, Abby (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Currently 40% of the world’s human population lives within 100km of a coast. With the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicting that sea levels will rise between 0.52 and 0.98m by 2100, and with increasing ...
  • Climatic Conscience for Dwelling Design 
    Newmarch, Emily (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    In New Zealand, our residential architecture is built off the pragmatic approach of the instinctive farmer, and the desire to dissolve the boundary between architecture and landscape. In the search to create the dream home, ...
  • Closing the Loop - Recycling Plastic Waste 
    Bruce, Caitlin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    New Zealand is ranked among the top nations in waste production, including a million tonnes of plastic waste. Currently, there are methods for recycling plastic within New Zealand but these methods can be expensive and ...
  • cnc serendipity 
    Bennett, James Edward (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    This thesis discusses the traditional use of (computer numerically controlled) CNC machining and the role of a designer to control the manipulation of (computer aided manufacturing) CAM software, CNC data and materials. ...
  • Codex of the Third Landscape 
    Castro, Dan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    In «Le poème de l’angle droit» (“Poem of the Right Angle”), first published in 1953, Le Corbusier presents his personal ideologies that relate to architecture and the built environment. Throughout the seven theme poem, ...

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