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  • Earth and Straw Bale: An Investigation of Their Performance and Potential as Building Materials in New Zealand 
    Hall, Min (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    Is there a future for ‘natural’ or ‘alternative’ building systems in New Zealand? Do they have a role to play in the quest for more sustainable housing solutions? These are the questions that underpin this thesis which ...
  • East Meets West: Designing an Institute of World Religions in Istanbul 
    Browne, Rosemary (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Globally, over 65 million people have become involuntary displaced from their homes, their families and their livelihoods, victims of socio-political and cultural conflicts, manmade and environmental disasters. A global ...
  • Ebb to Flow: The Awakening of a Neglected Urban Waterway 
    Jadeja, Jay (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    The revival of urban waterways and the potential they have to reshape communities is a global issue that deals with the fabric of human interaction and nature. For nearly all communities across New Zealand, the local ...
  • The Ecological Footprint of Wellingtonians in the 1950s 
    Field, Carmeny (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    Population and economic growth lead to increased demand for resources; these resources rely on land or water, which are both finite resources on Earth. Globally humanity is currently operating at an unsustainable level, ...
  • Ecosystem Services Analysis for the Design of Regenerative Urban Built Environments 
    Pedersen Zari, Maibritt (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    Humans will need to mitigate the causes of, and adapt to climate change and the loss of biodiversity, as the now inevitable impacts of these changes become more apparent and demand urgent responses. The built environment ...
  • Eco-Tourism and its Architecture: A Methodological Framework for Assessing Progress towards Sustainable Development 
    Mahravan, Abbas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    This thesis proposes a composite framework for the evaluation of the environmental impact of tourism development on host destinations. In this study, the environmental impact of tourism is considered as a social-ecological ...
  • Edge Effect: Reconnecting Whangarei's City and River 
    Lawrie, Alicia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Whangarei City has a dying Commercial Centre. This has resulted from population shifts that have occurred over time. Significant issues have driven movement of people toward much larger cities (seeking better economic, ...
  • The Effect of Survey Scale Sizes on How People Assess the Effect of the Built Environment on their Work Performance 
    Yuki, Issei (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    Increase in employee work performance could lead to additional savings for businesses, and therefore investments to improve the indoor work environment could be very cost effective. However, these business decisions are ...
  • Efficacy of Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort Related Retrofit for Existing New Zealand Houses 
    Zhang, Yanguang (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    Many New Zealand studies have argued that house energy retrofit produces limited benefits, but the issue of how existing house retrofitting can lead to better energy performance and comfort improvement is little explored. ...
  • Elements of Surprise : Industrial Designers’ Strategies for Eliciting Surprise Through Interaction 
    Rodríguez Ramírez, Edgar Raymundo (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    Fascinating designs can break our expectations and elicit a sense of surprise that first invokes our interest, increases the emotional intensity of an experience and may affect how we interact with our surroundings. ...
  • Embodied Architecture 
    Cameron, Beth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    The human body is what we come to know the world by. Everything is relative. Using a body centred approach, the relationships held between the Body, Clothing and Architecture are explored through the identification of ...
  • Embodied Carbon Footprint in Medium Density Housing Design 
    Fleming, Madison (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    The built environment is responsible for approximately 20% of New Zealand’s carbon footprint. Sustainable design strategies may potentially present an opportunity to reduce the environmental impacts of buildings. To this ...
  • Embodied Remembrance 
    Wilkinson, Mark (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    This thesis introduces embodied remembrance, to mediate the experience of the body and the digital in architecture. The rise of the digital has enabled an architecture which primarily responds to abstract desires and ...
  • Embracing the Block 
    Wezel, Daniel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    With an estimated housing shortage of 150,000 homes in 2020, New Zealand is in urgent need of a new housing solution to keep up with demand. Given that families make up 70% of New Zealand households, attracting families ...
  • The Emergence of Collective Dreams: An Exploration of Community Development Based Collaborative Landscape Design 
    Barrie, Charles William (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    This thesis explores the nature of a landscape design process that could ensure the resilience and sustainability of suburban public space. Utilising a literature review and two large case study projects, the research ...
  • Emergency Relief Station 
    Bhaven, Divyesh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This thesis explores the potential large public architecture offers for efficient transformation into a relief station in post-disaster situations. The increase in catastrophic disasters globally has demonstrated a widespread ...
  • Emergent ecology: Creating inclusive cities through speculative interaction 
    Kumar, Shaneel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Many cities within developing countries are facing an increased demand for space to work and live as contemporary top-down urbanisation strains to facilitate the rising urban population. Future projections estimate that ...
  • Empathear: Design of a system to elicit empathy in siblings of voice hearers 
    Mokhtar, Sarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    It is said that one in five adults will be affected by some form of mental disorder every year, and nearly half the population (45%) will experience a mental disorder at some stage in their life (SaneAustralia, 2004). This ...
  • Enabling Continuous Commissioning through Building Management Systems 
    Askew, Cara (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    The use and application of energy efficient technologies within new and existing buildings is a growing global trend. However, if they aren’t being commissioned, controlled and operated in an efficient way, are they really ...
  • Enabling Wilderness 
    McKone, Matt (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Internationally known for its picturesque landscapes, New Zealand encourages both locals and tourists to experience them first hand by walking one of the many tracks around the country, an activity locally known as tramping. ...

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