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  • A Game Controller for Stroke Rehabilitation 
    Duncan, William (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Successful stroke rehabilitation relies on early, long-term, repetitive and intensive treatment. Repetitions conducted during clinical rehabilitation are significantly lower than that suggested by physiotherapeutic literature ...
  • Gaming and Photography: Investigating the Elision of Illusion and the Actual 
    Paterson, Matthew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    The application of aesthetics and techniques from photography into computer generated images leads audiences to read images of a virtual space similarly to images of a physical space. This phenomenon has allowed for a ...
  • Gardening Assemblages 
    Wright, Victoria (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    This thesis examines how architecture can encourage sustainable food consumption habits within the city. Urbanisation is continuously increasing the demand for food within cities while separating the users from its source. ...
  • Gardening Mt Vic 
    Pearce, William (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    Since Olmstead envisioned Central Park, New York, the study of gardening has slowly become the Staple of landscape historians. Gardening practices can engage the body with aesthetic experience through plants and materiality; ...
  • The Garden of Machines 
    Jordan, Oliver (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Ports are often the origin of many coastal cities. Once simple trading posts, interfaces of land and oceanic connections, have since bloomed to match industrialized global cargo and fishing industries that fuel their growing ...
  • The Gateway to the South: Enhancing Connectivity between Port and Town 
    Melville, Angela (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This thesis explores how issues that have arisen from large scale ferry ports and industrial developments have resulted in disrupting the connectivity to neighbouring townships. It proposes a novel architecturally resolved ...
  • Generative Meditations: Exploring Generative Art From the Perspective of Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy 
    Jack, Benjamin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    the purpose of this thesis is to document and explore the subjective struggles I have encountered in my own practise as a generative artist rather than to provide an objective overview of computational generative art. ...
  • Gentle Pull How can the architecture within our dreams become real? 
    Roberts, Alice (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    The dream is elusive. It sits comfortably just beyond grasp, oblivious to the waking world, giving and taking both influence and encouragement that reflects our memories. This push and pull is underestimated, mostly forgotten ...
  • Get Wavy: Introducing irregularity into modular timber housing 
    Irvine, Brittany (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    The construction industry accounts for 23% of global CO₂ emissions each year¹. Coupled with contemporary pressures of urbanisation, there is demand for increased density construction². To improve the relationship the ...
  • Ghost in the Machine: Architecture, People and Data 
    Speedy, Benjamin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    In an age of electronic networks and digital communities, the ability to access the world’s knowledge from anywhere, by anyone, at anytime is the new reality. With data growing at an exponential rate, questions of its ...
  • Gitanjali: Song Offerings 
    Jain, Suchita (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    New Zealand lies on the Pacific Ring of Fire – the belt of vulnerable, unpredictable fault lines which are the primary cause for earthquakes in this country. Most recently, as evident in the aftermath of the 2011 Christchurch ...
  • Glance Vs. Gaze 
    Craig, Duncan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    This research investigates the phenomenology of vision in response to the following question: What is a way of looking through architecture that can cultivate a positive connection with the landscape? Two modes of vision ...
  • Global Sustainability and the New Zealand House 
    Alcorn, J. Andrew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    "How do you build a sustainable house in New Zealand? - is it even possible?" This thesis is structured in three parts to answer this question. The first part asks, then answers, "What is sustainability?", "How do you ...
  • Good Grief, 
    Duncan, Morgan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    The rejection of a formal grieving process has become common in contemporary western society. The subject of death is mainly feared and considered a taboo subject. Death is now hidden, removed from the communal and restricted ...
  • Governed by Opportunity 
    Ang, Angelina (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Singapore is known as an advanced industrialising city-state with the aspiration to be a global city in the international economy (Yuen, 2005). With the rapid economic growth; the country’s population has been increasing ...
  • Gradient Strategies: Reconciling the Public and Private Realms in Suburbia 
    Stringer, Alan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Last century saw significant changes in the way we occupy land for living. Technological advances in individual and mass transportation has both extended city peripheries and effectively claimed the suburban public realm ...
  • The Grand Central Markets; Heritage-led Regeneration through adaptive reuse 
    Fraser, Sarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    There is growing acceptance that heritage buildings are an important element of New Zealand’s social capital and that heritage conservation provides economic, cultural and social benefits to urban communities. The role of ...
  • The Graveyard of Unwritten Books 
    Andrews, Dion (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    Over recent decades, we have arrived in an age where mass production, prefabrication, and economic stresses make it increasingly economical to formulate architectural fixtures and fittings that are generic to a multiplicity ...
  • Groundcover: Investigating an ecological field-architecture 
    Velvin, Henry (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    With many traditional conservation approaches becoming outdated and inefficient this project looks at the role of architecture in facilitating forward thinking, system based conservation aimed at high levels of self-organization. ...
  • Guidelines to Make Victoria University School of Architecture and Design Carbon Neutral Through Minimising its Reliance on Carbon Offsets 
    Ryu, Soo Jung (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    Universities have always had an important leadership role in society in demonstrating the types of changes that need to occur with respect to the prime issues of the time. All around the world, universities are lining ...

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