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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 ...
Weaving Words and Drawing Lines: The Bauhaus Masters Endeavours to Establish a Universal Visual Language within Foundation Education

O'Sullivan, Nan Catherine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This study investigates the roots of interdisciplinary architectural and design education and methodology in Europe and the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. In particular this thesis is concerned ...
Wetland Square, Market Pier: Rethinking Heritage in the New Zealand Regional Landscape

Murray, Rachel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This thesis addresses the rapid environmental degradation and socioeconomic decline to which many of New Zealand's lowland regions have succumbed. In the last 150 years, it is estimated that 90% of the country’s indigenous ...
What Does a Foot Path Do?

Lowe, Michael (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

In New Zealand pedestrian infrastructure is not a robust area of transport planning. As a funding class it receives minimal monetary allocation. This thesis argues design interventions in the pedestrian environment need ...
When the Tank’s Empty: Design Strategies for the Adaptive Reuse of Urban Tank Farms

Bruns, Rob (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

Urban tank farms, technically known as bulk fuel storage facilities, have been a feature of the urban industrial landscape for close to 100 years. Often established in prime waterfront locations near city centres, their ...
Whenua Ora: Land Healing. Designing Architecture that Incorporates Nature and Mātauranga Māori

Phillips, Katy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

In 2006, 86% of New Zealanders lived in urban centres, a number that is expected to have risen (“Urban and rural migration”). Urban lifestyles have been linked to increased risk of obesity, stress, cardiovascular diseases ...
Where can I cry?: Providing for Emotionality in the Built Environment

Ford, Claire (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Increasingly, research suggests that urban life is characterised by rising levels of distress (Söderström, 2017). We exist in a melee of social, political, cultural and environmental constructs, many of which require ...
Where the Heck Do I Put the Barbeque? High-Rise Housing for New Zealanders

Ashworth, Matthew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

There is little doubt New Zealand is in the midst of a housing crisis. A growing population and a construction industry unable to meet demand makes housing supply an ongoing issue. The most sustainable way to meet housing ...
Whispering Tales. Using technology to enhance cultural landscapes and indigenous values

Carson, Hannah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Increasingly our built and natural environments are becoming a hybrid of real and digital entities where objects, buildings and landscapes are linked online websites, blogs and texts. In the case of Aotearoa/New Zealand, ...
Who killed Eileen Gray? E1027 and the making of an Architecture Methodology

Bradburn, Natalie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This thesis looks at a E1027, a 1929 villa designed by Irish born architect, Eileen Gray. E1027 will serve as a case study for this thesis to assist in design based research. Peter Downtown discusses research as an ...
Who Knows Best? Participatory Design with Tenants in Wellington City Council's Housing Upgrade Programme

Leckie, Nick (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Public participation is the cornerstone of a democratic society and it presents very specific challenges in relation to development projects. This thesis explores participatory design - the important interface between the ...
Wilderness

Prujean, Alexander (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

What we perceive to be wilderness is in fact just a product: a physical manifestation of the force of wildness. Attempting to manufacture wilderness while bypassing this primary element (the force of wilderness) is why ...
Wind Environment Study of High-rise Residential Building by using Multiple Computational Tools

He, Yi (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Wind environment is a key element of sustainable design of architecture. Concerning major trends of climate changes and urbanizations, this research aims to study the relationships between the influences on wind environments ...
WithDrawing: An Investigation into How the Iterative Process of Hand Drawing Can Influence the Design of Buildable Architectural Spaces That Are Responsive to the Contemporary Blurring of Traditional Programs, Typologies, and Contextual Conditions

Snow, Amanda (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

In the early 21st century environmental, social and cultural changes are confronting the traditional relationship one has with technology, space and subsequently architecture. More specifically the tools of design ...
Wonderful Worth & Worthy Wonder: The revival of a forgotten concept to strike a balance in technological exhibition design

Langridge, Charlotte (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

As museums develop their roles as social and political forces, the role of the exhibition designer has evolved and become more complex. The new role demands increased consideration as new technologies impact the demand for ...
Worn Out or Worn In?

Stevens, Ross Ernest (2006)

Worn out or worn in started with the creation of a building. For an industrial designer, this was unfamiliar territory. Through working with a specific site came the recognition of the potential of weathering to add a ...
The Wrong Side of the Tracks

Wiesen, Jorle (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Christchurch was struck by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake on the 22 February 2011. The quake devastated the city, taking lives and causing widespread damage to the inner city and suburban homes. The central city lost over half ...
XYZ: Customized Complexity

Stewart, Earl (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

The digital revolution described by Neil Gershenfeld is bringing about the age of Personal Fabrication, where manufacturing is becoming personal, enabling new creative freedom to design objects that are specifi c to the ...
You Can't Sit With Us

Young, George (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The shortage of housing supply in New Zealand’s central urban areas has seen a large shift in population towards lower density, suburban areas. The urban sprawl away from the cities has had adverse effects on suburbs, towns ...