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Browsing Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation · Te Wāhanga Waihanga-Hoahoa by Subject "Landscape"

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Activating the edge: Investigating landscape architectures potential to utilise transport infrastructures public life generating ability

Kuiti, Jordan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Transport infrastructure is a key aspect of any city. The ability to move large groups of people into and through the city can positively or negatively affect the public life associated with that city. With this in mind ...
Algorithmic Toolmaking: Parameter Thinking in Landscape Architecture

Hegglun, Kadin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis interrogates the contentious integration of digital technologies into the field of landscape architecture. Identifying that an application of computational technique is largely unknown, the research delves into ...
Arcadia, The Museum Of Nature

Cleland, Hamish (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

The loss of indigenous ancient forests has had a great impact to New Zealand habitats. Native birds, insects, fungi, plants and animals have been diminishing in diversity since human occupation. This is to a degree the ...
At Home with a View: Exploring Notions of Landscape

Borren, Hester Blyth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

The aim of this thesis is to gain an understanding of the role and value of a view of landscape with respect to the interior of New Zealand houses. It explores the all-or-nothing manner in which contemporary architecture ...
Bridging the Distance: Accommodating Wildlife Interaction in an Urban Setting.

Thomson, Michaela (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Currently within the Wellington region there is an abundance of green spaces hosting a variety of native and exotic wildlife species (Rastandeh, Brown, & Pedersen Zari, 2018; “The Sanctuary,” 2018). These species are ...
Codex of the Third Landscape

Castro, Dan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

In «Le poème de l’angle droit» (“Poem of the Right Angle”), first published in 1953, Le Corbusier presents his personal ideologies that relate to architecture and the built environment. Throughout the seven theme poem, ...
Experience-driven heritage

Du, Sian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Within the Wellington region, there are a number of abandoned military fortifications which were designed as a coastal defence system to protect the harbour from Russian attacks in late 19th Century. Changing circumstances ...
Field of Intimacy: Explorations of interiority within the landscape

Hall, Michelle (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Interior Architecture cannot be bound by the confines of a building, it is not the catalyst of architectural intervention, in fact we can have interior experiences within the landscape. As a discipline Interior Architecture ...
Forgotten Integration: An investigation into the integration of Post-Olympic Parks

Warren, Marcus (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

The Summer Olympics occur every four years, capturing the hearts of the world for a nite period of time. During this time, the eyes of the world are set on the host city of whom provide a facility and an infrastructure ...
The Last Resort: Building Big Architecture in Big Landscapes

Suisted, Cameron (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Accommodating large groups of people typically requires large architecture. However, in precious landscapes, such as National Parks, large architectural interventions are often opposed on the grounds of an aesthetic cost ...
Layered Pasts: Cultural Heritage Landscapes in Cities

Manning, Kendra (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This thesis aims to understand how indigenous heritage values might be represented in post-colonial urban environments. Using an urban design and landscape architecture lens, this paper builds on an emerging body of heritage ...
Life Lessons from the Landscape: Spatial Education for Earthquake Preparedness

McGavock, Samantha Kate (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Architecture can be conceived and designed as an active participant in enhancing awareness of the prevalence of seismic activity by illuminating the unremitting transformation of the landscape and providing places where ...
Localise It

Sobye, Anna (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Wellington is located on a fault line which will inevitably, one day be impacted by a big earthquake. Due to where this fault line geographically sits, the central city and southern suburbs may be cut off from the rest of ...
Made to Measure: Revealing and Measuring a Dynamic Coastal Environment

Leslie, Callum James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

MacLean Park located on the Kapiti Coast has one of the most dynamic natural environments in the country. As tides rise, dunes shrink and grow and rivermouths shift over time, it can be difficult to perceive these environmental ...
Masterton Playscapes - Connecting children with landscapes through interventions and design processes

Erasmus, Emma (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis investigates the importance of connecting children to the landscape through creating child led designs. It explores the process undertaken when designing with children and shows how unconventional spaces called ...
Meaning in Landscape Architecture: Negotiating Identity in a Landscape of Local and National Significance

Hunt, Marita (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This thesis develops a landscape architectural approach to the design of meaning in locally and nationally significant spaces. It begins with an emerging contemporary trend: nationally significant sites that are ignored and ...
On the Line - Revitalising Place Identity: A Case Study in Balintore, Scotland

Budge, Robert (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Once proud fishing villages in the North of Scotland used to be lively and industrious gateways to the ocean for much of the country’s population. Modernisation and industrialisation of the fishing industry has seen a ...
Out of place: Rewriting a landscape signature

Baker, Alison Leonora (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

South Wairarapa, in New Zealand’s lower North Island presents an interesting collision; the landscapes forms and features evidence distinct separation between traditional landscape values and recent European economic ...
The Poiesis of Systems

Smith, Jessica (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis looks at how to engage with the existing ‘poiesis’ of the Kapiti region north of Wellington, to reveal the large scale ecological systems operating in this coastal landscape, making them legible at the human ...
Rehabilitating Healthcare: Therapeutic Landscapes as a Catalyst for Health, Well-being and Social Equity

Kershaw, Chelsea (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Aotearoa New Zealand is a society with inequality deeply embedded in its culture, and this translates to the health of vulnerable members of the community. In its current state, healthcare infrastructure and rehabilitative ...