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  • Rykers, William (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This research is focused towards the use of large-scale FDM 3D printing within the automotive industry, specifically to design a bespoke habitable sleeping environment attached to a Range Rover Sport. 3D printing has risen ...
  • Gasson, Lauren Maire (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    Despite contemporary social activities changing drastically at the turn of the twenty-first century, residential layouts have not changed. This thesis takes the position that dwellings should be designed to facilitate ...
  • Dey, Paul (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Amenity values on urban arterial roads are fraught. This is largely due to the traditional traffic capacity versus amenity trade-off. This trade-off implies that high-capacity roads must be inherently deficient in amenity ...
  • Brunskill, Helen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Taking the Roof off a Modern Building explores ways to appropriately reactivate modernist architecture, acknowledging the social, economic and contextual constraints of a contemporary provincial New Zealand township. This ...
  • Dench, Jacob (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Thesis investigation looks to allegorical architecture as a means of enhancing our awareness of our environment. This investigation began in early 2016 with the discovery of a little-known architectural history of the ...
  • Leiataua, Baby (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    How does one design a contemporary Indigenous Pacific architecture? Can the structure of Indigenous narratives of multiple Pacific cultures reposition the space of contemporary architecture? This thesis primarily drives ...
  • Bodnar, James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Verbal communication skills have been shown to be important for both social and professional settings. However, a need for greater communication skills has been identified for graduated students entering the workplace, ...
  • Hone, Nicole (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Movement transforms a physical object from static to alive. Multi-material 3D printing has the potential to create complex organic effects, given its ability to blend rigid and flexible materials. Add in the fourth dimension ...
  • Dugar, Amardeep Mohanlal (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    'Tangible lighting controls' is used as an umbrella term to describe lighting control systems that are easy to understand and pleasurable to use by end-users. The crucial question posed is, what is the nature of interface ...
  • Thorp, Solange Marie Lochore (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    This design led research advocates for an architecture indicative of the preceding history; that engages in an active dialogue with the site. Developed through shifting scales and media, the thesis investigates how ...
  • Whiting, Tamatamaarangi (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    At the heart of the thesis is the establishment of a new type of landscape practice based upon leveraging the power and potential of computational tools to serve cultural attitudes to land and land management. The research ...
  • Jacob, Daniel Sebastian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    Poor pedestrian and transportation circulation, overpopulation, expensive cost of living—these are some of the issues inherent to any urban metropolis around the world. As cities develop and grow, more job opportunities ...
  • Price, Sophie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    This thesis addresses the research question “How could a mobile game be designed to facilitate education and improve healthcare engagement around skin sores in children?”. Health behaviour issues such as lack of education ...
  • Warnock, Claire (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    This thesis builds on existing research which examines the impact of architectural culture and the changing role of the profession, recognising that there is a need for drastic change in the way in which the architect’s ...
  • Pia, Ariana (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    This research questions whether considering Māori concepts of architecture and space within the design of New Zealand prisons can help in the rehabilitation process of inmates of Māori descent. First, the general concept ...
  • Hakaraia, David (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    This research explores how Māori tradition and narratives along with modern fabrication techniques can be used to make contemporary Māori design. The aim of this thesis is to document my work history and findings; and to ...
  • Wareing, Sara (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    A housing Warrant of Fitness (WoF) has been independently proposed by three organisations as a way of improving the quality of rental housing in New Zealand and reducing housing related injuries and health problems. The ...
  • Imani, Marzieh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    Design inspired by nature has been known as biomimicry or biomimetic design that is believed to transform human technologies into a sustainable status through translation of biological models, systems, and processes. Considering ...
  • Roach, Elyjana (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    Porirua City is twenty minutes north of Wellington, New Zealand’s capital. The city is fifty years young and is home to the youngest demographic in the country. The city is culturally diverse but lacks a clear architectural ...
  • August, Karan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)
    Phenomenology offers a conceptual framework that connects and strengthens the architect' s intuitive understanding of the human experience of space with the theorist's more critical approach. Phenomenology is an ideal ...

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