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Courtyard housing: A mid-density alternative house-type
(Unitec ePress, Te Pūkenga, 2022-12-27)The main objectives of housing policy in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland are to increase the city’s density and to increase its total stock of affordable housing. In the current market, family housing for lower-priced mid-density ... -
The design of the Dilworth Building
(Unitec ePress, Te Pūkenga, 2022-12-27)The Dilworth Building was architecture firm Gummer and Ford’s first significant building. It was completed in 1927 and sits on one of the most prominent locations in Aotearoa New Zealand, the corner of Queen Street and ... -
Dirt under our fingernails: Daylighting waste at the Dome
(enigma : he aupiki, 2022-03-29)[...] How might this “productivist bias” be countered by taking erosion, breakdown and decay as our starting points? In this article I explore this possibility with respect to a controversial proposed landfill in Dome ... -
Le Corbusier in Paris 1915: Between past and future
(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022-03-31)In 1910-11, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret wrote the draft of a handbook on the visual and aesthetic perception of the city. “La Construction des villes”, never published by Le Corbusier, was based on his detailed studies of ... -
Translation and continuity of tradition: An ongoing dialogue in Aotearoa New Zealand
(INTBAU Spain, 2021-11-10)English and Spanish parallel text Though short, Aotearoa/New Zealand’s history is rich and holds an abundance of knowledge preserved in the form of songs, beliefs, practices, and narratives that inform this country’s ... -
Taurua’s whare
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This paper will discuss Taurua’s whare: a whare built to memorialise Taurua Nātana, his mokopuna, and others and to shelter manuhiri engaged in the pōhiri process at Waiōhau marae. Taurua’s whare is part of the Waiōhau ... -
Enigmatic assemblages: Follies at the intersection of architecture and photography
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)Hyperreal architectural photographic assemblages proliferate within contemporary media: artists, photographers and architects envision digital worlds that operate at the intersection of hyperreal architectural renders, ... -
(Re-)uses of historical knowledge in architectural education: The value of the client – Reginald Ford on professional practice
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)With the support of Tūāpapa Rangahau Research and Enterprise at Unitec New Zealand, a research project devoted to Gummer and Ford – an Auckland architectural firm founded in 1923 by William Henry Gummer (1884–1966) and ... -
A layered conservation response to the layers of built history
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)RESEARCH QUESTION How can differing conservation responses and approaches maintain and enhance those layers of history within a historical building? ABSTRACT The Conservation and Heritage Research stream in Unitec’s ... -
Te Pūtaha Auaha: Avondale Graffiti Pavilion
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)Public architectural and art installations can enable leftover and forgotten urban spaces to be positively reinvigorated. These interventions can be produced at different scales and placed in a variety of existing ... -
Climate change and housing: Exploring a New Urban model to help build resilience to climate change
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)The environmental effects of climate change and the provision of affordable housing are seen as essential yet disparate issues in contemporary urban discourse in Aotearoa New Zealand. We argue that these two critical ... -
Māori architecture: A response to colonisation
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)For generations, Māori have disputed colonisation and the impact it has had on Indigenous peoples. As settlers acquired more land, Māori realised they were losing power over decision making in Aotearoa and began to create ... -
Suburban styles: Housing design at higher densities in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)Suburban housing design in Aotearoa New Zealand’s cities evolved through the twentieth century with adaptable styles to suit changing fashions and various forms of external expression. Designers followed a path that saw a ... -
Psalm
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)INTRODUCTION Psalm was the title of an exhibition in 2019, of sculptures by Bronwynne Cornish and paintings by Hamish Foote. Both artists reference the native biota of Aotearoa New Zealand, and aim to draw attention to ... -
EDFAB : design and building of a plywood research house
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)INTRODUCTION: EDFAB: Eco-digital Fabrication Research Project was a collaboration between researchers and students from the University of Auckland’s and Unitec Institute of Technology’s Schools of Architecture. The ... -
Architecture as a tool for inclusion and community building : Women in Fabrication at Zayed College for Girls
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)Women in Fabrication is a collaborative platform that empowers female high-school students, architecture students and young architects through design and construction. The project partnered with Zayed College for Girls to ... -
The eternal present of the mythical event : re-establishing place identity with speculative installations that reawaken heritage stories
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)This paper proposes that speculative architectural installations strategically ‘curated’ into neglected architectural contexts can help to engender an ‘immediate and a timeless realm,’ an encapsulation of a cultural story ... -
Anti-social distancing : revisiting Auckland’s Unitary Plan
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)Planning systems in Auckland have been revised over a decade of complex realignments that followed the amalgamation of the region’s seven cities into a single planning administration. The city’s Unitary Plan, which came ... -
My history is not mine : a speculative allegorical approach to experiential architecture
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)This design-led research investigation focuses on architecture as a representation of cultural loss. Globalisation has spread Eurocentric modernist architectural principles across most cultures. In a very real sense, many ... -
The hand of the engraver
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)The manner in which we dwell leaves scars upon the landscape that are often left behind long after occupancy ceases. Many derelict landscapes across New Zealand have scars too advanced for remediation. This designled ...
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