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  • Quality Assembly: Designing to offsite fabrication for medium density living in New Zealand 
    Dunn, H. M. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    This research portfolio looks at how consciously activating prefabrication into the design process early, and subsequently designing to the onsite assembly stage by using three key design principles, can contribute to a ...
  • Quality Assurance in Risk Management 
    Dykman, Alexis (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    This thesis investigated the inherent relationship quality assurance has with risk management processes, specifically focused on the construction industry perception of risk and uncertainty. On the evidence gathered, there ...
  • Quarantine 
    Murray, Thomas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This thesis is set in a world similar to many pieces of science fiction literature and film. The world is fighting against the outbreak of a lethal and highly infectious pathogen that threatens to decimate the global ...
  • Questioning The Quarry - Negotiating Landscapes Through Reciprocity 
    Lark, Nathan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    Questioning the Quarry, explores an alternative approach in rectifying spatial disconnection between the Kapiti Coast District and their industrial hinterland quarry. Quarrying remains one of the largest industries, ...
  • Questions from a Contraceptive Pill Junkie: Applying Human Psychometrics to Investigate Gender Bias in Machine Learning 
    Darney, Hazel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    With the rapid uptake of machine learning artificial intelligence in our daily lives, we are beginning to realise the risks involved in implementing this technology in high-stakes decision making. This risk is due to machine ...
  • Rainwater's Well-come: Resettling former refugees into New Zealand 
    Stronach, Lucy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    There are now an unprecedented number of refugees world-wide. The global impact of this is felt in New Zealand, with the refugee quota set to increase in 2018. The refugee crisis is an important design problem that architects ...
  • Reactivating Dynamic Architecture: A Strategy to Inject Relevant Bodily Imagery Back into Architecture 
    Gesterkamp, Claire (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    The building-body analogy, which used to be crucial in the designing of buildings, to the exception of a few, is fading. This broken link leaves us with a melancholic yearning; a sense of loss. Reactivating Dynamic ...
  • The Readability and Usability of Building User Guides 
    Anderson, Michael (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Building user guides are intended to inform building occupants about the building systems within their workplace. They are created to describe and document all the necessary information pertaining to the buildings operation, ...
  • Realigning Lifestyle: An integrated approach to ecology, production and living within rural subdivision 
    Wong, Monica (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    The Kapiti Coast is changing. The long awaited expansion of the state highway will see rapid growth along the coast and with it, the rural landscape will face a new set of challenges. As the demand for rural land increases, ...
  • Reclaiming Social Space: Adapting Neighbourhoods to Support an Ageing Population 
    McClintock, Lisa (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    The age structure of New Zealand’s population is expected to undergo a dramatic change in the next few decades. By 2050, it is thought that approximately one quarter of the population will be aged 65+. Research indicates ...
  • Reconciling Amenity and Intensification in New Zealand's Coastal Suburbs: An Island Bay Case Study 
    Raynes, Andrew James Robert (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    With the global and national populations predicted to increase, the location of new residences provides a planning challenge. Intensification of existing areas has been identified as an alternative to urban sprawl (constant ...
  • Reconnecting Children with Nature: Biophilic Junior Level Learning Environment Design 
    Woodward, Emma (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    More than half of all humanity now live in urban centres. In westerns counties generally at least 80% of people’s time is spent indoors. This means that people are spending less time outside and in places that can be ...
  • Reconnecting Life of those with dementia back to their families and the wider society 
    Kusjanto, Grachia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Dementia has become one of the most feared diseases. It is feared more than cancer for those over 50 years of age. The progressive and distressing nature of the symptoms have been widely known to affect both the person ...
  • Reconstructed Memory 
    Northcott, Courtenay (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    How can the abstract idea of memory be represented through the discipline of landscape architecture? How could this be more specifically achieved within the man-made landscape, using materiality and time as tools within ...
  • (Re)covered Memory: Memorialisation, Race, and Architecture 
    Wiles, Max (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    The tendency to record only built memory and significant events in architectural practice means that less tangible cultural memory is prone to erasure. This is prevalent in the memories of the other which often diverge ...
  • Redefining an Institution; The public library as an activator of an urban heart 
    Nicholson, Zac (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Tauranga is a growing city with a dying heart. A pattern of neglect over recent years has left the downtown ‘dying’ and ‘unsustainable’. The same is perceived of the institution of the public library. Public buildings are ...
  • Redefining the Vernacular in the Hybrid Architecture of Malaysia 
    Sim, Stefanie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    The objective of the thesis is to view the presence of vernacular architecture as a strong sub current of modern praxis in Malaysia. Vernacular architecture has played a pivotal role in shaping architecture and in defining ...
  • Red Lights 
    Adams-Winch, Riley (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    People have a tricky relationship with sex. Where, when, how, and with whom we have sex is as much a product of social convention as biological necessity. New Zealand has been legally progressive in enabling its economic ...
  • Reducing Recidivism Not Rights: Rethinking Interior Architecture as a solution for New Zealand's failing prisons 
    Abernethy, Luuk (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This thesis argues that the design of the built environment of a prison can have a huge impact on lowering recidivism rates of prisoners in New Zealand. It proposes that this can be achieved through the development of a ...
  • Reductive Rich - Negotiating an Architectural Language for Waikanae 
    Wild, Sarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    I am interested in the architectural language and built fabric of cities and regions. On an exchange to Munich, I was confronted by two approaches to the city - the rich quality of work by Sergison Bates and Caruso St John; ...

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