Browsing by Study Area "Architecture"
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The 7th Generation: cooperative housing to facilitate domestic support
(2017)Historically family typologies in New Zealand consisted of men dominantly maintaining the financial responsibilities and women maintaining the domestic responsibilities. As society developed and underwent modernisation, ... -
Abandoned industrial spaces : the place of adaptive reuse in revitalising a rural community in Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTION: How could Tokomaru Bay in the northern Gisborne region be given a second life by the adaptive reuse of the abandoned meat freezing works facility? Industrialization in New Zealand can significantly ... -
Active living architecture
(2011)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can a single piece of architecture be designed to encourage people to expend calories through physical activity on a daily basis and promote healthier eating, with the aim of shifting them away from ... -
Adapation, accretion and architecture : a proposal for the island of Funafuti
(2013)The climate is shifting and this shift brings with it a number of effects. Perhaps the most devastating of these effects is sea level rise and its impact on low-lying island nations. One of these nations: Tuvalu, may have ... -
The adaptation of Islamic culture in a western society : building a contemporary mosque in Auckland.
(2011)Though it is from the East that the sun rises, showing itself bold and bright without a veil, it burns and blazes with inward fire only when it escapes from the shackles of east and west..."(3) - Muhammad Iqbal The ... -
Adapted identity : a classical experiment on three iconic buildings
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can Auckland’s central business district retain its historic architectural identity while glass towers proliferate? ABSTRACT: Auckland City Council are actively encouraging tall buildings of up ... -
The adaptive precinct: Strengthening cultural identity through adaptive reuse
(2022)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can adaptive reuse of post-earthquake Christchurch buildings regenerate the sense of place between a disengaged community and its city? ABSTRACT There has been an apparent disengagement between ... -
Adaptive reuse and re purposing of industrial buildings to residential dwellings in Auckland City
(State of Australian Cities (SOAC 2017), 2017-11)The conversion of former industrial buildings and identifying heritage as a commodity has become a pervasive trend, especially over the last decade. Adaptive re-use of old industrial buildings is often seen as an alternative ... -
Adaptive reuse and repurposing of industrial buildings to residential dwellings in Auckland City
(Analysis & Policy Observatory (APO), 2018-06-18)Auckland is currently facing a housing crisis in which demand for living space has exceeded what is being provided. The ad hoc demolition of older buildings, driven by proactive property developers in hope of meeting the ... -
Adaptive reuse of industrial buildings in a new precinct in Auckland’s CBD
(Global Science and Technology Forum, 2015-10-05)The conversion of former industrial buildings and identifying heritage as a commodity has become a pervasive trend, especially over the last decade. Adaptive re-use of old industrial buildings is often seen as an alternative ... -
Adoration of the joint : investigation and translated application of jointing methods
(2013)This research project is an investigation into the aesthetics and craft of traditional timber jointing techniques. It is an endeavour to grasp the essence of the timber joint and the craft by which it is produced and to ... -
The aesthetics of topology optimisation and non-standard analysis
(2011)Over the last few years, architects have been given access to a myriad of new generative tools that are unprecedented in both number and capacity. Some design professionals are describing the ability they provide to generate ... -
After the rot: Improving the durability of building envelopes in domestic housing, New Zealand
(International Association for Housing Science, 2010)The issue of weathertightness of the external building envelope in domestic scaled timber frames continues to be an issue in New Zealand, some ten years after the results of a major cladding survey into the durability and ... -
Ageing together: Senior co-housing within a pocket community
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can a better quality of life for the elderly be achieved through architecture in an aged care facility? ABSTRACT: The ageing population of New Zealand is growing significantly and is becoming ... -
The agent of change : architectural development scheme for the rural communities in Punjab, India
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can architectural and infrastructural interventions in a rural village in the state of Punjab, India, be designed to assist economic growth, environmental sustainability and utilise local skills and ... -
Air rights
(2015)This paper researches the history of the Transfer of Development Rights (TDR), a phenomenon of legal property understanding and city planning policy, which began in New York City and evolved into application in cities ... -
Albany as a future node : improving social wellbeing in a car-centric environment
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTION: What would Albany’s Centre look like if an urban design paradigm promoting wellbeing and reducing social isolation was employed for future development? It is evident that Auckland is growing ... -
ALCHEMY a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination : waste - waste not
(2017)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can organic waste be used as sustainable material for an architectural proposition that has the potential to educate and promote a sustainable way of looking at waste? ABSTRACT: Waste has become ... -
Analogic architecture: A bionmetic speculation
(2009)There is a beauty to science, and a science to the beauty that is intrinsic in art. The exploration of art and science in architecture are intertwining studies in the pursuit of new inspiration and ideas. Art and science ... -
Analogue automation : the Gateway Pavilion for the Headland Sculpture on the Gulf
(Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe), 2017-09)The Waiheke Gateway Pavilion, designed by Stevens Lawson Architects originally for the 2010 New Zealand Venice Biennale Pavilion, was brought to fruition for the 2017 Headland Sculpture on the Gulf Sculpture trail by ...
