• A habitação social brasileira recente: Entre sonho, necessidade, marketing e a realidade 

      Melchiors, Lucia (2015-03)
      Atualmente a questão da habitação social tem sido amplamente discutida no Brasil. Nos últimos anos observa-se que essa questão foi fortemente influenciada pelo Programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida (PMCMV) e pela Copa do Mundo ...
    • The house as domestic clinic 

      Schnoor, Christoph (Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), 2021-07)
      Infectious diseases have dramatically affected social behaviour in the past, as is happening now, during the current coronavirus pandemic. But infectious diseases have also altered architecture and urban design on the way ...
    • House Indoor Thermal and Health Conditions with Different Passive Designs 

      Su, Bin (2012)
      According to the Auckland climate, building passive design more focus on improving winter indoor thermal and health conditions. Based on field study data of indoor air temperature and relative humidity close to ceiling and ...
    • Immeuble-villas between Le Corbusier and Albert Gessner 

      Schnoor, Christoph; Kromrei, Claudia (SAHANZ, 2013)
      One of the open questions for contemporary urban living in the city is the issue of density. What level of urban density is sustainable and appropriate for a healthy, enjoyable lifestyle as well as for the unfolding of ...
    • Impact of building envelope design on Auckland public library energy consumption 

      Su, Bin (2018)
      This study investigated impact of building envelope design on energy consumption of Auckland public libraries under local climatic conditions. Energy consumption data and library building envelope design data of the 30 ...
    • Impact of building envelope design on energy consumption of the Auckland library 

      Su, Bin (Advanced Building Skins GmbH, 2017-10)
      This pilot study is to investigate impact of building envelope design on energy consumption of Auckland public libraries. There are about 55 public libraries in Auckland. Monthly energy consumption data for a whole year ...
    • Impacts of the Courtyard with Glazed Roof on House Winter Thermal Conditions 

      Su, Bin (2011)
      The ‘wind-rain’ house has a courtyard with glazed roof, which allows more direct sunlight to come into indoor spaces during the winter. The glazed roof can be partially opened or closed and automatically controlled to ...
    • Integration of design and technology 

      Austin, Michael (Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia, 2007)
      Certification Boards visiting architecture schools regularly demand more ‘technology’ in the curriculum, and an increased ‘integration’ of design and technology in the teaching programme. The persistence of this over many ...
    • Intensive design building studio : a collaboration with industry 

      Campbell, G.; Patel, Yusef; McPherson, Peter (Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA, 2018-11)
      The purpose of this paper is to explore a case study project between a timber supplier, industry body and an architecture school. The project, an installation stand, became a test to access how resilient junior architectural ...
    • Is there a place for natural building in New Zealand’s conventional housing market? : a prefabricated straw bale case study 

      Forsyth, B.; Hall, Min; Johnston, S. (2014-09)
      Natural materials Why it is important Natural buildings in New Zealand Natural Materials in NZ - earth, straw bale, logs, cordwood, hempcrete Straw bale Pros and cons Stramit Board and Durra Panels Ecococon Straw ...
    • Iterating success : learning to change through understanding failure 

      McPherson, Peter; Pretty, Annabel (Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia (AASA), 2015-10)
      In 2012 a collection of architecture and design schools in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch came together under the umbrella of FESTA to realise a city of light within central Christchurch, devastated by the events ...
    • Jungle Jim? Odo Strewe and Tropical Influence, 1948-1965 

      Francis, Kerry (2009)
      Odo Strewe left Europe in May 1937, a refugee from Nazi Germany, and island hopped his way across the South Pacific to land in New Zealand in June 1938. Twenty years later, having established a family and a landscape ...
    • Keynote Speech 4: Cooling is the new heating: NZ’s self-denial. 

      Byrd, Hugh (2022-02-18)
      As the climate warms, we use more electricity for cooling, causing more carbon emissions, causing the climate to warm further causing the use of more electricity for cooling and so on. This presentation looks at past and ...
    • Land stewardship in the climate wrung epoch 

      Yu, Y.; Bloomfield, Sibyl (Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), Australia, 2020-11)
      QUESTION: How can vulnerable land be turned into adaptive land that is ‘safe’ for communities? This paper discusses a student research by design project, undertaken as the culmination of a Bachelor of Landscape ...
    • Late Bloomer: The Live Centre of Whangārei 1875-1909 

      Francis, Kerry (2007)
      The length of Bank Street between Vine and Water Streets and Rust and Cameron Streets Whangarei was, during the 1890s, the commercial and administrative centre of the fledgling town. The most significant presence in this ...
    • Le Corbusier's early urban studies as source of experiential architectural knowledge 

      Schnoor, Christoph (Polytechnic University of Valencia Congress, 2015-11)
      In the year between April 1910 and March 1911 Le Corbusier – then Charles-Edouard Jeanneret – composed maybe the most comprehensive piece of writing of his career: a manuscript entitled “La construction des villes” which ...
    • Learning about Landscape Odo Strewe and the Group 

      Francis, Kerry (2010)
      In Europe and the United States, landscape architecture came late to the modernist party. New Zealand was no exception. While architects here were exploring variants of modernism from the late 1930s, modernist landscapes ...
    • Legislation revisited : new hope for the earthquake prone "home shop?" 

      Murphy, Chris (School of Architecture and the Built Environment, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2016-12)
      A review of current earthquake-prone building policy undertaken by the New Zealand Ministry of Building, Innovation and Enterprise (MBIE) follow the Christchurch earthquake, resulted in the Government introducing legislation ...
    • Less and more in Aotearoa New Zealand : more houses and less CO₂ emissions 

      Hall, Min (Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), 2017-12)
      The aim of this paper is to present the case for further research into using a broader range of bio‐based materials, specifically straw, for construction in Aotearoa New Zealand. It is predominantly a literature review ...
    • The Licensed Building Practitioners Scheme : four years on. 

      Murphy, Chris (International Association for Housing Science (IAHS), 2016-09)
      The Licensed Building Practitioners Scheme (LBP Scheme), restricting certain aspects of the design and construction of residential buildings in New Zealand to licensed building personnel, was a Government initiative passed ...