Browsing Architecture Dissertations and Theses by Supervisor "47118"
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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 ... -
Architecture as a work-in-progress
(2013)People carry an assumption that ‘heritage’ architecture must be historic (age based) to be considered valuable and significant to New Zealand’s cultural identity. This historic value must be maintained and preserved, but ... -
Circulation, nature, connection : breaking down institutional barriers to biophilic healing
(2015)This research study is concerned with the how the circulation aspects of a hospital can be intentionally designed to enhance patient care. Natural environments have proven to be beneficial to healing and wellbeing. It is ... -
Critical preservation : an architectural research project exploring post traumatic architecture in Christchurch
(2013)The focus of this research is to explore the concept of Post Traumatic Architecture in the context of Christchurch. It is aimed to provoke a discussion on an alternative way of rebuilding a city devastated by a traumatic ... -
Cross-cultural healing : An architectural response to Maori urban healthcare
(2014)As an exchange student, New Zealand was uncharted territory, both culturally and environmentally. With a growing interest in the people and place affected by architectural design, I decided a project deeply rooted in the ... -
Design for diversity : an architectural response for rehabilitation and reconnection of ecological diversity
(2014)Architecture demands a certain responsibility to the changing environments of today’s world and the sustainable practices that can support it. Overtime, this responsibility has only become more important as habitat loss, ... -
Dynamic system : a digitally fabricated environment. Customised component design
(2013)Digitally designed and fabricated construction is continuously evolving, in its capabilities to produce elements that are susceptible to change. These parts, generated from digitally produced models are able to be made by ... -
Engaging sensibilities: An exploration into architectural techniques for multi-sensory environments
(2010)The culture and practice of architecture is regarded as a principally visual field. The sense of sight dominates the remaining senses, which lack purposeful engagement in current architecture. This proposal ventures to ... -
How can existing ‘six-storey’ apartment buildings from circa 1980 - 1990 be redeveloped as a new mixed-use residential model in China?
(2013)The housing industry sits in a significant position in both the Chinese economy and in national life. Residents are leaving their six-storey apartments for high-rise apartments just as years ago they left courtyard ... -
Hybrid culture : a digitally fabricated environment customised component design
(2013)Throughout history, western culture has had minimal influence on Indigenous Polynesian and Japanese Architecture. Current advances in the technological age are playing a major part in traditional building techniques ... -
Mature, honest , & clean : design study of industrial sustainability through a New Zealand whisky distillery
(2015)AIMS & OBJECTIVES: The aim of this project is to generate awareness of the importance of sustainability within the industrial scene, how it can be achieved through architectural practice and why it is so necessary within ... -
A museum of New Zealand architecture
(2014)“A Museum of New Zealand Architecture” explores the possibility of creating a museum that exhibits various examples of New Zealand architecture. New Zealand architecture needs more exposure in the public domain for its ... -
New Urbanism in Auckland
(2011)This research project focuses on creating a transit-orientated pedestrian-friendly urban development to serve as a pedestrian linkage between the two different urban cultures of the Auckland CBD and Parnell. This project ... -
The oneness of Eastern heart & Western mind in future workspace
(2015)Throughout the history of the workplace, with the aim of increasing the competitive advantage, organizations have focused on many innovative strategies to improve human performance at work. Human performance such as ... -
Piranesi : [th]reading the repository
(2014)Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is remembered as a visionary architect whose creation of the Carceri d’Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons) surpassed the limits of human imagination and which contains a power to constantly ... -
Pit stop : stitching together medical facility and transport infrastructure
(2015-10)Hospitals are a legacy of humanity’s deepest compassion. They embody society values and culture. Recognized as icons of health and wellness within our society, there is no greater irony in architecture that these civic ... -
Reuse: The lifecycle of buildings in New Zealand
(2011)Since our environment is partly proof of our history, it needs to be protected and maintained. Beyond this cultural value most existing buildings have, there are environmental and often economic benefits that should not ... -
Rites of remembrance : an architectural research project exploring the funerary requirements of modern day secular New Zealand society
(2014)Technological advancements have increasingly led to the alienation of human emotion from physical experience. A prime example of such can be demonstrated upon analysis of the business of death and dying, an experience which ... -
Salutogenic design : redesigning hospital waiting space to promote health and wellbeing
(2015)With the need of pursuing better health condition for the human body in every way, hospital design solutions have been examined and revised over and over from the past to the present. Emphasizing the significance of paying ... -
Seeing is believing: A design process of visually experienced truths; limits, advantages and lies
(2009)Current architectural practice gives unarguable truth to the dimension, and also to the orthographic methods which are aligned to the dimension. The same orthographic conventions have come to be the means by which architectural ...
