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  • Sacrosanct & Sound 
    Al-Ali, Mohammed (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    In our age of sensory experience and understanding, iconographic rhetoric is arguably the primary medium used to seduce our perception. We ornament and adorn architecture superfluously to satisfy the eye. What of the ear? ...
  • Sampling the City 
    Evans, Morgan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    This thesis developed a speculative design process that sits between two streams of contemporary discourse. On one side lies ‘projective’ architecture—characterised by the elevation of performance and rejection of ...
  • Sartre in Space: Rethinking Architecture & Rebuilding Philosophy 
    Mustard, Jane (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    This thesis considers spatial and architectural language used in philosophical text to determine the value of a cross-disciplinary relationship between architecture and philosophy. It approaches architectural figure as ...
  • Saved by the Bell: A Feminist Approach to High School Architecture 
    Nathu, Ekta (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    The years spent as high school students are some of the most formative to the development of confidence in identity, and in preparing young people to be resilient adults. The school environments in which development occurs ...
  • The Science of Multiplicities: Post-Structuralism and Ecological Complexities in Design 
    Feast, Luke (Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)
    This research investigates the potential contribution of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to design research. Through a comprehensive review of the literature an understanding of the themes of immanence and anti-essentialism ...
  • Scripted tower [Creative coding for responsive environments] 
    Van Velthooven, Claudia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    This thesis is based on investigating computational design methodologies for the generation of responsive environments, exploring the opportunities that creative coding and parametric based design approaches can offer ...
  • SCULPTING INFRASTRUCTURE - A TEMPLE TO NATURE 
    Esselink, Ryan Cameron (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Off the coast of Paraparaumu lies one of New Zealand’s most iconic tourist attractions, the Kapiti Island nature reserve. Home to many native plant and wildlife species, this island sanctuary offers a unique nature experience ...
  • S.E.ARCH: Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Architecture 
    Shum, KaiMei (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    Until this point in time, space architecture has relied heavily on engineering - resulting in little room for artistic practice. The resulting habitats are ill-equipped to sustain the quality of life required for long-term ...
  • Sea Summation : How Waterfront Urbanisation can use Hydrological Strategies While Facilitating For Climate Change 
    Sahib, Zarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    Urban inclination has unfavourably allowed for urban development throughout New Zealand to be found either along once naturally ecologically established and natural defensive coastal shorelines, waterfronts or along reclaimed ...
  • Secondhand Architecture: Finding value in the existing 
    Huynh, Vi (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Secondhand architecture explores the potential for significant high-density housing models to be revitalised and offered a second life. Much of the medium to high-density housing stock built in the mid to late twentieth ...
  • Second-hand poetics: Dynamic shifts from home to monument 
    Williams, Tina (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    This thesis began with an Antarctic story. There is something sublime about the adventures of Scott and Shackleton; their ability to entertain the emotive sensation of place, despite a physical detachment. Tales of exploration ...
  • Seeing and Being Seen: The Theatre of Ernst Plischke 
    James, Annie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    Ernst Plischke is one of the most well documented and evaluated architects in the New Zealand architectural discourse. However, when we look at the work he is the most well-known for, such as residences, churches and public ...
  • Seismic Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Buildings in the 1931 Hawke's Bay Earthquake 
    Van de Vorstenbosch, Geert (Victoria University of Wellington, 2000)
    This thesis examines current earthquake engineering theory and practice regarding Earthquake Risk Buildings to determine if the seismic performance of reinforced concrete buildings is currently underestimated. The types ...
  • Selective interference: Emergent complexity informed by programmatic, social and performative criteria 
    Welch, Christopher David (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Parametric design tools and visual programming languages are fast becoming an important part of the architects design process. A review of current literature notes that the barrier to entry into the medium is lowering while ...
  • SELF i.e. An exploration into the cultural value of selfies 
    Beeden, Eleanor (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This thesis investigates the cultural value of selfies. The selfie is an artifact of self-representation in network culture, and its communication of identity parallels that of historical self-portraiture. This research ...
  • Sense of Home 
    Atkins, Emelia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Quality atmospheric conditions and the ability to empower residents has been overlooked in recent social housing developments as they have been strongly economically focused. The demand for inner city social housing within ...
  • The Sensorial Latency of Urban Spaces 
    Kanagaratnam, Dylan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Architecture provides the platform for the inherent connections between people and their city to flourish. The urban realm naturally invites diverse people to inhabit and interact together, giving city life its vibrancy. ...
  • Sentience: 3D printed living products 
    Rewiri-Chrastecky, Tahi (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    This thesis is a research through design based investigation that explores the possibility of creating three dimensional (3D) products that are tactilely responsive, in an attempt to discover whether 3D printing technologies ...
  • Serenity: 3D Animation to Simulate Chinese Ink Painting 
    Shen, Lili (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Serenity is a computer generated ink-wash animated short in which the traditional aesthetics meets the new media. I combined theoretical research and physical experiment to convey a peaceful pleasant feeling with subtle ...
  • A Shift in Modality; Exploring how landscape architecture design engages with large scale sites. 
    Jenkins, Jacob (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    Landscape architecture for the last 20 years has scratched its head at how to understand large landscapes and human life on the ground together. Recent preoccupations with large scale urbanism, GIS and satellite imagery ...

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