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  • O2: An Investigation into the Architectural Agency of Air 
    Guilford, Tasenka (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Miyake Jima, an island off the East coast of Japan, was home to 3,600 residents until 2000 when an escalation in volcanic activity caused noxious gas to burst from the crater, sending twenty thousand tonnes of sulphur ...
  • Occupying Maori Architectural Time: Reconstructing the architectural process through Maori interpretations of space 
    Wilson, Rehua (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    This thesis investigates the occupation of an alternative Maori Architecture within Maori space/time constructions. The design research questions how to articulate a Maori architectural process in resisting lost identity ...
  • Ocean As Place For Urban Life: Building on Water to Combat Urban Congestion & Climate Change 
    Bowman, Piers Brereton (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    Coastal cities form some of the largest and most important cities in the world. The unique character of these cities has been shaped and moulded by the coastal environment. As powerful as these cities seem they have became ...
  • Oceanic Creative Practice: Re-evaluating indigenous spatial strategies as relevant to twenty-first century creative exploration and practice 
    Meadows, Jodi Marie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    “Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us.”¹ ­‐ Epeli Hau’ofa This research ...
  • 'Of Milk and Honey: A design strategy for the economical, ecological and ideological resilience of a cultural landscape and its people 
    Sloane, Findlay (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Wetlands are one of New Zealand’s most important freshwater ecosystems. They are low-lying waterlogged areas bordering rivers and streams and forming quiet edges of lakes, rivers, low- lying floodplains estuaries and ...
  • Old Tech to High Tech: The Adaption of an Abandoned Power Station in New Orleans as an IT Giant Global Headquarters. 
    Lewis, Amelia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    A 19th Century industrialisation Power Plant sits abandoned on the Mississippi River, once producing electricity for New Orleans. Now sitting in neglect, though still retaining its heritage and past historical values. A ...
  • One dose of Architecture, taken daily: Building for Mental Health in New Zealand 
    McLaughlan, Rebecca (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Thousands of New Zealanders were treated in the nation’s mental hospitals in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Existing research has examined this history of institutionalisation from the perspectives of policy, ...
  • One In Seven 
    Browning, James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Like many cities across South America, Caracas is a city of widespread informal settlements, with over a third of the city’s population living in slums. South America’s urban slums are expected to continue their rapid ...
  • On the Line - Revitalising Place Identity: A Case Study in Balintore, Scotland 
    Budge, Robert (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Once proud fishing villages in the North of Scotland used to be lively and industrious gateways to the ocean for much of the country’s population. Modernisation and industrialisation of the fishing industry has seen a ...
  • On the Rise: A Coastal Planning Strategy for Adaption in Response to Climate Change 
    Ibell, Kieran (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    New Zealand is a long and narrow country with extensive coastline that accommodates many communities. With hot weather getting hotter and wet weather getting wetter, climate change and sea-level rise poses significant risk ...
  • Open Communitition 
    Segard, Achille (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    The recent enthusiasm in popular culture for massively multiplayer online environments has proven that eclectic online communities have the potential to develop powerful problem solving capacities through the enactment of ...
  • Opportunities in Otaki for Improved Energy Efficiency in Retail Lighting and Its Offsetting through Renewable Resources 
    Heap, Quinten (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    In 2010 the town of Otaki decided to go "Off the Grid", obtaining all its electricity supply from renewable resources. To support this goal, this thesis documents and quantifies the electricity demand for the Otaki retail ...
  • Opus Oppidum: Research for architecture, research beyond the city 
    Urquhart, Breanna (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Metropolises around the globe continue on the path of relentless growth under the extreme forces of urbanisation, whilst the provinces are neglected. This design-led research builds on recent discussions concerning New ...
  • Orbital Habitability: Architectural Design for Extra-Terrestrial Habitation 
    Tozer, Griffin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    Companies like SpaceX and Virgin Galactic are privatising the space industry. This privatisation will allow more and more people to inhabit space for more extended periods, with less training than prior astronauts. Space ...
  • The Origin of Objects 
    Kinnaird, Zakary Sebastian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    This thesis forms a series of texts inquiring into the integration of semiological studies in product design. Semiology is often illustrated in systems; it is these systems that govern the practice of product design in the ...
  • Orthographic Projection and the Elaboration of the Imaginary 
    Anderson, Duncan Geoffrey (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    With the development of digital technologies, orthographic projection has been slowly removed from the process of architectural design. Instead, orthographic projection drawings are increasingly utilised purely post-design ...
  • The other interior: An ode to cigarettes 
    Pike, Karen-Lize (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Interiors are the space of human encounter. Their validity is entrenched in the social realm and the integrity and relevance of interior architecture depends upon the acknowledging human interaction. It should not be ...
  • Our Common Ground: Finding Our Imagination in the Garden 
    Gilbert, Anna (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    Recent rhetoric in landscape architecture has illuminated the complex nature and broad scope of the discipline in such a way that augments instrumental, solutionist, and measurable modalities of practice over the ...
  • Our place: Public + private balance in a state housing community 
    Cahill, Niamh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Government owned housing in New Zealand is moving towards a model of privatisation. This can limit the opportunities found in the semi-public space for neighbours to meet and interact. Without these human interactions, a ...
  • Our Third Skin 
    Hughes-Hallett, Charlotte Corbett (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    It can be argued that there is an absence of reverence between contemporary architecture that governs our urban environment and the human body. Current architectural forms are unwittingly unresponsive to the dynamic flow ...

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