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  • Facilitating Policy: Redefining Terraced Housing in Malaysia 
    Bala Kumar, Suraj Khumar (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    The multi-ethnic tension among the three main ethnics in Malaysia has a great impact on tolerance and political unity. The Bumiputera Policy gives privileges to the Malay ethnicity, which further strains this issue, dividing ...
  • Facilitating the Human Scale: A Response to Urban Intensification 
    Gould, Samuel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Over the last half century, globalization has catalysed a new wave of urban expansion. Implications of this growth will further intensify the complexities of the urban metropolis, where transecting transit networks, ...
  • Factors Affecting Conversation Design for Digital Political Personae 
    Cox, Reuben (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    Digital political personae are common on social media, representing a potential avenue to inform and engage citizens in political conversation. While personae that function as a digital extension of politicians and ...
  • Factory Futures - The Factory as a Spectacle 
    Petterson, Luke (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    Currently, in New Zealand, pipfruit processing factories typically adopt the vernacular farm shed-like typology, which makes the business’s identity invisible to the surrounding community. The architecture presents itself ...
  • Fads, Façade and Face of Building: A proposal for an urban university campus expansion 
    Kuepper, Ann-Kathrin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    “Transparency means a simultaneous perception of different spatial locations. Space not only recedes but fluctuates in a continuous activity” (Kepes). Universities in New Zealand are increasingly under scrutiny as sites ...
  • The Family Friendly Home: A higher density adaptive reuse strategy for Wellington 
    Tatnell, April (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    This thesis will explore what makes a place family-friendly and, how likely families with children will consider moving into high-density residences in the Wellington Region. With an increasing population and housing demand, ...
  • A Fascinating Folly: Making-place through the thickness of time 
    Hamilton, Anna (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    The design research narrates an architectural inquiry into shifting mainstream practices surrounding Aotearoa’s historic architecture. The proposal intertwines current architectural approaches to tangible facets of history ...
  • The feasibility of 'Building Performance Sketching' within the building design process 
    Braasch, Elzine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    This study investigated the question of whether or not the distributed model method (DMM) could be perceived by the New Zealand building industry’s architects and engineers as overcoming barriers which prevent them from ...
  • A few words to church builders: Threshold 
    Dombroski, Gerard (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Throughout history churches have been concerned with the sharing of the gospel to those who do not know of the salvation received through Jesus Christ. Through history many churches have innovated liturgical operation using ...
  • Field of Intimacy: Explorations of interiority within the landscape 
    Hall, Michelle (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Interior Architecture cannot be bound by the confines of a building, it is not the catalyst of architectural intervention, in fact we can have interior experiences within the landscape. As a discipline Interior Architecture ...
  • File-to-Factory: Transferring Design Intent to Manufacture 
    Robinson, Maya (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    Digital fabrication has become a common way of producing and constructing designs more efficiently, challenging the traditional methods of construction, and the way we design. Despite the new technologies used to enhance ...
  • Finding the Key: Designing Timber Connections for CLT Panels 
    Joyce, Gabriella (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    In a climate where standard methods of construction are being challenged, developments in engineered timbers are allowing mass timber construction to be explored as a sustainable alternative to traditional building methods. ...
  • The first move: A home for asylum seekers on the far side of paradise 
    Strange, Thomas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Since the turn of the twenty-first century Australia and New Zealand have become an increasingly popular destination for asylum seekers and refugees in search of a better life. Many of these people do not reach this new ...
  • Flexible, Family-friendly: Developing an alternative high-density, vertical housing option 
    Ing, Louise (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    There are many benefits associated with living in low density, detached housing conditions. However, the increase in housing demands have prompted Auckland’s surge of peripheral land to be developed into homes and the ...
  • Flexi-Ed: Enhancing education through flexible form 
    Keats, Megan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    As cities evolve, change and grow, the need and desire for adaptable architecture becomes evident across the nation. Architecture needs to undertake techniques that are flexible in order to adapt and align with the development ...
  • Flight of the Factory 
    Lovelock, Mark (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    New Zealand’s industrial heritage is largely forgotten and at risk of being lost. Without intervention, these buildings will continue to decay until demolition becomes the only feasible option. This design research ...
  • The Flipping Sequence Of A Very Tall Structure 
    Aznam, Moehammad Zaed (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    The impact of rising sea levels and perennial flooding in cities and low-lying urban areas is becoming more severe with the increasing threat of global warming. Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, these low-lying ...
  • The Floating Village: Fostering Social Capital in Chinese Migrant Settlements through Mobile Architecture 
    Woon, Vincent (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    In the past two decades, China has realised one of the fastest and largest rural to urban migrations in the world. The country’s urban population has increased by 20% over the last 20 years due to rapid urbanisation and a ...
  • Flood of Ecology - Floodplain Habitation 
    Braczek, Christopher (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Larger and more devastating flood events are happening more frequently across the planet, but flooding is a natural occurrence for any river system. It is only due to human modification of the river system, through the ...
  • Floodplain Inhabitation: A Socio-Spatial Resilience Network 
    Boyle, Rebecca (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    The inadequacy of current approaches to managing floodplain inhabitation was highlighted in the 2010-11 Queensland, northern New South Wales and Victorian floods; the most costly floods in Australia’s history. Despite ...

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