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Landscape Sub(Vert.)Urbanity: a model for integrating gardens, as an architectural device, into higher density housing to encourage New Zealanders to live in the inner city

Fraser, Annabel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

New Zealanders continue to resist higher density housing as a way of living. The detached house in the suburbs remains the preferred housing choice for most. This proposal addresses the key attributes required for higher ...
The land shaping the people: A cultural look into a new land management scheme for South Wairarapa

Smart, Megan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

With this thesis bringing attention to the region of Wairarapa, it will show awareness to the significant cultural and biodiversity that this district holds that makes it such a rich place within Aotearoa, New Zealand. ...
Landside Synthesis

Melhop, Luke (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

The rapid development of commercial aviation produced the contemporary airport in its wake: a synthesis of culture, consumerism and infrastructure. While airports have remained for the most part in peripheral locations, ...
Lapping at the edges: A time-responsive exploration into coastal communities adaption to sea-level rise

D'Ath, Zoe (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Global warming poses an increasingly relevant risk across the globe. Among one of these risks is sea-level rise. The total population exposed to flooding could triple from 50 million people to 150 million by the 2070s due ...
The Last Resort: Building Big Architecture in Big Landscapes

Suisted, Cameron (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Accommodating large groups of people typically requires large architecture. However, in precious landscapes, such as National Parks, large architectural interventions are often opposed on the grounds of an aesthetic cost ...
Latent in the Flax: A paradigm for Indigenous Computation and Fabrication

Trewavas, Dominic (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Computational methods and digital tools provide an opportunity to engage with Indigenous/ Māori design processes to a depth not previously imagined. It can be argued that default western architectural design methods in New ...
Layered Pasts: Cultural Heritage Landscapes in Cities

Manning, Kendra (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This thesis aims to understand how indigenous heritage values might be represented in post-colonial urban environments. Using an urban design and landscape architecture lens, this paper builds on an emerging body of heritage ...
layers of old and new : the adaptive reuse of mid-20th century modern architecture

Kitto, Damien (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This research portfolio explores the role of adaptive reuse to support the preservation of mid-century modern architecture and facilitate new needs. Technological transformations of the 21st century have changed needs, ...
Learning Communities in the City: Social Constructivism, Spaces and Connections in the New Urban Primary School

Silverwood, James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

The main intention of the research is to develop a model for an inner city primary school building which is responsive to the urban context and reflects the educational theory of Social Constructivism. The underlying ...
Leaving a Trail - Revealing heritage in a rural landscape

Rodgers, Maria (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

‘Leaving a Trail – revealing heritage in a rural landscape’ investigates how landscape architecture can reveal heritage and connect Māori and Pākehā to the land and to the past in rural Aotearoa New Zealand. Our rural ...
Lethe and Mnemosyne Revisited: Presence and Absence in the Modern Day City

Wilson, David (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Urban planner Roger Trancik refers to central urban areas that are effectively impossible to use as “lost sites”. Lost sites are often located in association with large infrastructural systems such as motorways, railways ...
The Life and Death of the Supermarket: How Food Trade Infrastructure Affects the Design of Architectural and Urban Settings

Lee, Mathew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

Historically food has played an important role in how cities are shaped. The modern city is no exception to this, yet it holds an abstracted relationship to the hinterlands that feed it (Steel: 2008), thus giving the ...
A life cycle analysis of living: Measuring behaviour and the impact of dwelling rather than the dwelling alone

Bakshi, Nilesh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This research addresses the need for a more sustainable way of living by arguing that the current approach to green architecture, limited by the current criteria, needs to be refined in response to the needs of the finite ...
A Life Cycle Assessment of Medium Density Houses in New Zealand

Ganda, Sanjeev (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This study develops an analysis method that designers can use to undertake a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) on multiple building designs to inform design decisions and trials this on Medium Density Housing (MDH). Measuring ...
Life Lessons from the Landscape: Spatial Education for Earthquake Preparedness

McGavock, Samantha Kate (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Architecture can be conceived and designed as an active participant in enhancing awareness of the prevalence of seismic activity by illuminating the unremitting transformation of the landscape and providing places where ...
Lifestyle and Embodied Energy: A Proposed Hybrid Analysis Method for Housing

Leah, Adele Louise (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

This thesis set out to form a bridge between the disciplines of architectural history, social and women’s history, building technology and environmental assessment, by investigating changes to existing houses over time and ...
Liminal landscapes: Configuring dualities of ruralism and urbanism to retain cultural values in Cambodia's urban center

Chhim, Chao Son Anthony (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

With the rise of urbanization and more job opportunities in the city, there is a common trend of the younger rural demographic migrating to the urban center seeking work to provide for their family. With modern cities ...
Limited Use Only. How Can the Design of an Everyday Object Evoke an Initiation of Use in Chronic Stroke Survivors

Lemke, Mailin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Stroke causes significant damage to the brain and affects 15 million people annually worldwide. Symptoms commonly affect one or both limbs on one side of the body, limiting ability to perform daily activities. The preferential ...
A line of best fit: Re-stitching earthquake prone buildings and re-connecting pedestrian networks in Wellington City

Stewart, Charlotte (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

A Line of Best Fit explores weakness and disconnection in the city. Weakness: There are over 600 earthquake prone buildings in Wellington. The urgency to strengthen buildings risks compromising the aesthetic integrity of ...
LINKages

Lambert, Caitlin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Currently, there is a negative trend in the way small New Zealand towns are developing, ignoring community values and a sense of identity. New Zealand, a country renowned for the beauty of its small towns and wild natural ...