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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Architecture by us not without us
(2017-05-26)Māori Architecture in a Post Colonial context • Exploration of traditional construction technologies • Restoration and redevelopment of Marae environments • Māori engagement in the urban public realm -
Architecture for humanity: Shipping containers as Swiss Army knife
(2010-01-01)Surplus commercial shipping containers have re-gained popularity among developed countries recently and are often associated with fashionable, prefabricated second-homes, hotels, and even cities. However, when applied in ... -
An artisan village, Surat, India : safeguarding the art & craft heritage of India
(Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), 2019-11)This paper aims to strategise a comprehensive design, establishing a link between urban and rural sectors through preservation and revitalisation of the craft sector of India. The intent is to unite the various typologies ... -
Assessing the comprehensive competitiveness of Shangdong Peninsula Megaregion
(2015-11)The Shandong Peninsula Megaregion (SPM) is located in China’s eastern coastal area between the Yangtze River Delta and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Megaregions. To understand its status of development in the national context, ... -
Auckland's Urban Forests, Function and Design
(2010)This paper overviews the current patchiness of the vegetation in urban Auckland City, and introduces a range of Bachelor of Landscape Architecture student designs that focus on landscape ecology issues ... -
Back to earth : earth building in Aotearoa New Zealand 1945-65
(University of Sydney for Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), 2019-11-10)Earth was once widely used as a building material in Aotearoa New Zealand; it was an integral part of the vernacular architecture. Māori used earth in various ways and nineteenth century European settlers brought earthen ... -
Being different as a personality and being design unique requires respect, bravery, and patience vs What learnings from the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team can be gleaned by tertiary Architectural Students in teambuilding and dealing with differences
(The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), 2020-02)The Festival of Transitional Architecture (FESTA) is a voluntary organisation that came into being after the devastating Christchurch earthquakes between September 2010 and February 2011 (the latter claiming the lives of ... -
Between architecture and construction
(2017-11)In 1994 the School of Architecture and Construction at Unitec Institute of Technology received its first intake for a new Bachelor of Architecture programme. The co‐location of this architecture degree within a school that ... -
Between Werkbund and wartime sobriety : Ernst Plischke‘s Designs for Orakei
(Unitec ePress, 2014-08-07)The first project that Ernst Plischke was entrusted with in the Department of Housing Construction after his arrival in Wellington in 1939 was a series of multi-unit buildings in Orakei, Auckland. He based their design ... -
Bi-cultural architecture
(2015-07)Aotearoa/New Zealand is a bi-cultural country. There have been attempts to design buildings with this is mind, the most well known example being the National Museum (Te Papa). This contains pre-European Maori buildings, ... -
Biculturalism in New Zealand correctional facilities
(2015-07)In New Zealand architecture, notions of biculturalism have been addressed in a slowly increasing manner over the past 30 years. But has architecture in New Zealand taken these notions seriously in institutions, such as ... -
The cluster approach revisited
(International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, 2010-05-14)The UN Cluster approach came from the Humanitarian Response Review (HRR) commissioned by the UN in 2005. The intention of that review was to address apparent failures in the speed, quality and effectiveness of humanitarian ... -
Coastal retreat : future implications for architecture in N.Z.'s coastal hazard zones
(Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), 2017-12)Climate adaptation strategies evident in New Zealand local authority planning schemes suggest an awareness of coastal hazard issues caused by global warming and subsequent sea level rise. Coastal land identified as hazardous ... -
Colin McCahon’s house and its colours: A glimpse of New Zealand beyond its colonial past
(International Colour Association (AIC), 2022-06)Colin McCahon’s Titirangi house nestled Kauri forest was not only a tiny and humble house for his wife and 4 children for the years of 1953-60. But it was the birth place of some beautiful paintings and (what turned out ... -
Compacting suburbia: The case for moving buildings
(Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association, 2010)Processes of intensification lead to some unforeseen consequences. One such unplanned consequence is the rearrangement of existing buildings in new or revised spatial patterns. In pursuit of higher densities, large lot ...