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Machine Actuated Craft

Murdoch, Jonathan William (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Throughout history the use of scale representations has been important in the process of creating architecture. In recent times the introduction of computer-aided design (CAD) has significantly altered traditional methods ...
A Machine for Growing. Relocalising Agriculture to an Urban Context

Davies, Thomas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Agriculture is the most fundamental industry to our survival. With out being able to produce good nutritional food we can not exist. But increasingly this industry and the role it plays in our lives is changing due to its ...
Machining Ornament: An investigation into contemporary machining practices and the creation of patterned ornamental surfaces

Saunders, Samuel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Robotic tools open a new frontier in surface articulation. The combination of computer modelling with robotic tools allows the transfer of digital information onto physical objects with comparative ease. This permits a ...
Made to Measure: Revealing and Measuring a Dynamic Coastal Environment

Leslie, Callum James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

MacLean Park located on the Kapiti Coast has one of the most dynamic natural environments in the country. As tides rise, dunes shrink and grow and rivermouths shift over time, it can be difficult to perceive these environmental ...
Magister Ludi: Hermeneutics in Architectural Representation

Coetzee, David (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Written narrative has the ability to enchant the imagination of a person into a heightened emotional state, all without being directly visual. How, when existing almost entirely within a visual sense, does architecture and ...
Makers of Moments

Powell, Ryan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The thesis Makers of Moments develops a series of holiday architectures that inspire unique and profound experience with the ultimate purpose of facilitating memory through place. The development of a ‘unique and profound’ ...
Make Yourself At Home: Can architecture enable a sense of home in Kuala Lumpur’s public housing?

Ibrahim, Nadrah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Public housing in Kuala Lumpur was introduced by the government as a means of replacing informal settlements and providing housing for the lower income. Government subsidies often cover some of the costs of public housing ...
'Making' A Statement - Exploration of 3D Printing Technologies as a form of Customisation and Ownership in Urban Spaces

Bagley, Mark (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Ownership of urban space has been heavily contested in recent years by prominent artists, policy-makers and citizens alike. From Shephard Fairey and his condemnation of corporate culture in public space, to Banksy and his ...
Making Connections 3D printing, Libraries and augmenting their reality

Hughes-Ward, Dylan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Digital technologies have initiated a global shift in the way we conceive, configure, and exchange information. This shift is occurring on many levels and is impacting the way many organisations operate; including Libraries. ...
Making the New Zealand House 1792 – 1982

Isaacs, Nigel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

A systematic investigation was undertaken of the techniques (materials and technologies) used to construct the shell of the New Zealand house (envelope and interior linings) between 1792 and 1982. Using census, manufacturing ...
Making Things for People: An Iterative Design Procedure Informed by Human Behaviour

Wang, Brandon (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Technology inevitably evolves and develops rapidly in the modern era, industries and professions continue to strive in integrating, adapting and utilising these advancements to improve, optimise and improve the process of ...
Making user-friendly experiences that leverage online collaboration

Paz Trujillo, Juan Sebastian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

The recent rapid advancements in web technologies has led to an increase in the development of new devices, applications and methods of interaction that are continually evolving. However, the rate of these technological ...
The Malay Women and Terrace Housing in Malaysia

Md Zohri, Farah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Being of one of the major aboriginal groups in Malaysia, the Muslim Malay women differ socio culturally from women of other religious and cultural background. Malay women have particular spatial requirements especially ...
Mastering Maungawhau

Crawford, Francesca (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The Aotearoa (New Zealand) housing crisis and environmental shifts have inspired this thesis, which will address contemporary issues regarding Landscape Architecture, housing and urban design in Maungawhau (Mount Eden), ...
Masterton Playscapes - Connecting children with landscapes through interventions and design processes

Erasmus, Emma (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis investigates the importance of connecting children to the landscape through creating child led designs. It explores the process undertaken when designing with children and shows how unconventional spaces called ...
Material Agency

Bush, Isabelle (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

The ‘material turn’ of the twentieth century focuses on the vibrancy of matter and non-human agency, providing an engaging platform from which to re-assess, and also promote, the role of materiality in design. The material ...
Maximum Luminances and Luminance Ratios and their Impact on Users' Discomfort Glare Perception and Productivity in Daylit Offices: Testing the Hypothesis: Maximum Luminance and Ratio Recommendations For Visual Comfort Should be Specific to the Luminous Conditions and by Accounting For the Impact of Adaptation, the Recommendations Will be More Accurate.

Linney, Andrew Scott (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

Lighting is an important environmental factor when considering health and safety, visual comfort and workplace design. But how well do we really understand the implications of lighting on these factors, especially in a ...
Meaning in Landscape Architecture: Negotiating Identity in a Landscape of Local and National Significance

Hunt, Marita (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This thesis develops a landscape architectural approach to the design of meaning in locally and nationally significant spaces. It begins with an emerging contemporary trend: nationally significant sites that are ignored and ...
A Measured Approach

Swney, Logan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

The supply of goods to large numbers of consumers results in large, standardised buildings. The typically introverted designs of these buildings reject context and difference in favour of efficiency and standardisation. ...
Mediating the Brief: Reconceptualising Typology for New Zealand's Ageing Population

Sawers, Andrew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

New Zealand, like much of the developed world, has an ageing population. This fact is accompanied by evidence which shows that people’s life spans are also increasing (WHO 6). As the population continues to age, housing ...