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  • P(a)lace of Consumption: Architecture, the Revitalisation of Space through Shopping Mall Design Principles 
    Blue, Zachary (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    Architecture can be regarded as both a product for the retail environment and as a medium which can influence change in contemporary society. Within the context of the retail environment, architecture becomes intrinsically ...
  • The Pallet Paradigm: A New Beginning for Pallet Architecture 
    Miller, Aaron (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Timber pallets are too often discarded as waste after their shipping lives. If not rescued for upcycling pallets end up in landfills or burnt for firewood which can release harmful chemicals. There is an opportunity in ...
  • Paper Space: High density housing experiments, exploring slope and pathway, in Wellington’s character suburbs 
    Cooke, Alice (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    Wellington is a city defined by its hills, and the landscape and terrain have played a significant role in shaping urban growth. The steep terrain adds to Wellington’s striking landscape and contributes to ensuring the ...
  • Paradise lost: A critique of lost urban sites as didactic testing grounds for landscape architecture 
    Sullivan, David Rory John (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    The traditional approach within landscape architecture to rejuvenate a distressed ‘lost’ urban site is to cap the problem with a more desirable landscape. This thesis argues that such an approach simply creates a ‘green ...
  • Parametric atmospheres: An investigation of light, material and mass as the generator for design atmosphere 
    McFetridge, Matthew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Parametric design today is largely embedded within a traditional trajectory. Current use largely sees the role of computers in the design studio operate at a low level, fulfilling no more sophisticated tasks than which was ...
  • Parametric Kinetics 
    Clayton, Allan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    This thesis examines how parametric modelling can be used in the design process to aid in the development of a kinetic architectural skin. A parametric scripting process has been used to control morphological change in ...
  • Parametric modelling & digital manufacturing for better bra fit 
    Amoozegar-Montero, Ariya Xuxu (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    This research focuses on developing an overall system for a more accurate bra design and fit. The bra, consequently, becomes part of a life-long service system that is able to adapt to both physical and personal desires ...
  • Parametrics and the masculine: Exploring contemporary masculine qualities through a parametric design approach 
    Soares, Gideon (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    This research examines the potential of parametric design and contemporary design practice according to the following question: “How might parametric design be utilised to express qualities of contemporary masculinity in ...
  • Parasitic Architecture - Embodiment of Dystopia 
    Pomigalova, Marina (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This thesis advocates for unconventional solutions in architecture, arguing that traditional approaches may no longer be successful within contemporary realities. Through searching for answers and inspiration within ...
  • Participation in Place-Making: Enhancing the Wellbeing of Marginalised Communities in Aotearoa/New Zealand 
    Ricketts, Andrea (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)
    This research examines the relationship between community participation in public space decisions and the wellbeing of marginalised communities. A cross-disciplinary literature review and four New Zealand case studies ...
  • Patterns of Consolidation 
    Syme, Oliver (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    This thesis uses design based research to meet the challenge of urban densification. It proposes an approach for higher density housing development that enhances livability, achieves compactness and responds to a city’s ...
  • The Pedestrian Workplace 
    Davenport, Bronté (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    How can analysis of affective relationships enable the public street as a pedestrian workplace? When thinking of places we feel a bond to - an attachment to - home commonly comes to mind. In today’s world, where many ...
  • Pentimento: If Landscapes Remembered 
    Kempster, Nicholas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman’s dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large ...
  • People's Supermarket 
    Ting, James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Public markets were once a very important place to a city. However with the growth of the city and heavy usage of traffic, big-box supermarkets start to find its way into the city. The supermarket revolution had overtaken ...
  • Perceptive Being 
    Kellett, Danielle (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    The Human Body has been expressed in the field of spatial design as an insight into a consideration of space through understanding the occupant as a key driver for architectural space making. Past practice in this field ...
  • Perceptual Architecture 
    Griffiths, Llewelyn (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    In this thesis, perceived space is investigated in a high density architectural context. Understanding how to optimize the subjective space is an opportunity to provide perceptually informed high density architecture. The ...
  • Performance and Permeability: An investigation of the Mashrabiya for Use within the Gibson Desert 
    Samuels, William (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    This study investigates a traditional Middle Eastern building element, the mashrabiya, and looks at the potential application of this device within the contemporary context of the Giles Weather Station in the Gibson ...
  • Performance of Scale 
    Warrander, Jae (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Cities are for people. As the scale of modern day cities continue to grow with overbearing homogeneity, the human body has become a disengaged entity among the repetitive monolithic forms. This city environment has come ...
  • Performativity 2.0 
    Zeller, Phoebe (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    The practice of quantifying users’ performativity online by collecting personal data has become commonplace. This thesis explores performativity in a Web 2.0 climate relating to social media and online data with the intention ...
  • Peri-Fusion: An integrated agriculture and densified housing model for New Zealand’s peri-urban zones. 
    Morris, Sarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    Peri-Fusion housing is an integrated densified housing and agricultural model, that this thesis proposes as an alternative to the current problematic suburban model prevalent in New Zealand’s peri-urban zones. Suburban ...

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