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  • Validation of CFD Predictions of Urban Wind - Developing a Methodology 
    Willis, Riley (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    “Good mental health in a fluid or CFD modeller is always indicated by the presence of a suspicious nature, cynicism and a ‘show me’ attitude. These are not necessarily the best traits for a life mate or a best friend, but ...
  • Valued But Broken: Reconstructing Damaged Built Heritage 
    Page, Bradley (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Heritage buildings are an important element of our urban environments, representing the hope and aspirations of a generation gone, reminding us of our achievements and our identity. When heritage buildings suffer damage, ...
  • Verboten Island: Contingent Means Toward Indeterminate Architecture 
    O'Connell, Nicholas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)
    This design research project explores the generative possibilities of composite drawing techniques. By engaging with the act of drawing, through interdisciplinary media, creative morphs and shifts are activated that ...
  • Virtual Environments as Medium for Laypeople’s Communication and Collaboration in Urban Design 
    Chowdhury, Shuva (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    The distance between urban design processes and outcomes and their communication to stakeholders and citizens are often significant. Urban designers use a variety of tools to bridge this gap. Each tool often places high ...
  • Virtually Handcrafted: An Investigation of Immersive Architectural Design Processes 
    Innes, Daniel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Architects use media such as drawings and models to test and better understand their designs. These media are frequently scaled for convenience and reduced to two dimensions for clarity; however, in relying on these methods, ...
  • Virtually Home - An Innovative Methodology for Identifying the Housing Needs of Marganalised Communities 
    Musson, Marcus (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    Home is an experience universally sought after. It is a desire somehow and somewhere built into us as humans. Yet for marginalised groups understanding what makes ‘home’ is made difficult by various technical and cost ...
  • Virtual Palimpsest and Pentimenti for an Architecture in Reality 
    Hannaway, Keegan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    Behind every site is an unseen history. Before us, countless people have lived their lives through an ever evolving environment. This research examines how a process of uncovering site specific architectural and cultural ...
  • Virtual Recollection: Artifact Engagement in Three-Dimensional Environments 
    Achten, Ryan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Cultural institutions, specifically libraries, museums, and archives, have long been recognised for their collection and preservation of artifacts as a means of conserving cultural memory. With an emergence of digital modes ...
  • Virtual Retail 
    Mistry, Pranil Kaushik (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Retail design has always been much more than selling products; it is a way for the brands to express them self. It is what they stand for through their brand essences. Turning their manifestation into physical forms to ...
  • Visualising the Invisible: Displaying Building Resource-use Benchmarks in a 3D City Visualisation 
    Hills, Alex Josephine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    This thesis proposes a reinvention of the means of presenting statistical data about 3D urban environments. Conventional GIS use of 3D ’enhances’ hard to understand 2D maps with even harder-to-understand histograms of data. ...
  • VJing: A New Zealand Case Study 
    Lamb, Naomi (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    This thesis analyses some key factors of what is often considered a marginalised cultural and creative practice, VJing. The term VJ historically refers to Video Jockey, though in its own right VJ can be used to umbrella ...
  • Vulnerable Territories: The Perpetually Shifting Edge 
    Wellwood, Joseph (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    New Zealand’s coastline is rapidly receding. The increased threat of rising sea levels continues to erode the shore line causing extensive and irreparable damage to thousands of coastal properties, often dismantling ...
  • Wade in the Water: Reestablishing the natural landscape through the cultural landscape 
    Christensen, Greta (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    The impact of global warming is often debated as a future issue which encourages complacency, inaction and even debate as to whether or not it is occurring at all. In low lying coastal cities such as New Orleans, Louisiana, ...
  • Walking the Gully - Designing Journey Pathways with the Ngauranga Gorge 
    Jepson, Adam (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    The ongoing outward expansion of cities and desire to make them pedestrian friendly faces difficulties when confronted by certain landscapes, especially when a car dominant highway infrastructure has a grasp on gully ...
  • Wander of life: An agora to facilitate elderly's autonomous and connected life in Johnsonville 
    Kong, Yuqi (2016)
    New Zealand is experiencing a demographic transitional period when there is increasing percentage of the elder population out of the total. Researches and scholars overseas have investigated in architecture’s role of ...
  • The Watchman 
    Scott-Towers, Rhidian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Over the course of the last five years, the female prison population in New Zealand has risen more than 56%. As these numbers remain exponentially increasing, the ability to uphold successful facilitation for each and every ...
  • Water as a Social Generator: Activating social and water security in residential Kilbirnie 
    Shearer, Dylan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    Residential streets make up a large proportion of accessible public space while failing to facilitate community activity. These streets carry a relatively low volume of traffic, yet are standard in form. This factor in ...
  • Water Performance Benchmarks for New Zealand: Understanding Water Consumption in Commercial Office Buildings 
    Bint, Lee Ellen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    There is an increasing amount of literature outlining the issues underlying water shortages and restrictions to come in most regions of New Zealand. The problem is not helped by rising demands and climatic changes, as well ...
  • Water-Shed: Architectural Opportunity in Infrastructure 
    Stevens, Benjamin L (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    The current systems of infrastructure that comprise water supply are incapable of recognising value in water's urban place in anything other than in empirical terms. The 'Water-Shed' scheme transforms this utility into ...
  • The Weathered Trace: Capturing the Actualisations of Time 
    Shepherd, Joseph (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    It may be considered that architecture does not as a discipline, acknowledge the changes a building will go through after construction completion. Therefore, weathering of materials occurs without direction forcing a ...

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