Browsing Architecture Dissertations and Theses by Title
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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 ... -
Salutogenic hospital design : how can the benefits of natural light be harnessed to create stress-reducing and healing healthcare environments?
(2016)In recent years, the main priorities of hospital design have been function, efficiency and cost. This has too often resulted in unattractive and unpleasant clinical spaces where patients are seen as machines needing to be ... -
Saving St James
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION How can the abandoned St James Church in Mt Eden be preserved through adaptive reuse for a new, community-based programme? ABSTRACT The St James Church has stood proudly on the corner of Esplanade ... -
The scenic pathway : an architectural research project exploring an atmosphere around those facing their imminent demise
(2016)This research project endeavours to develop a design for a room and its supportive context that seeks to nurture a dying individual - dying that is supported by the architecture. While the concepts around death and dying ... -
A school can be more than education : schools for the future.
(2013)This research project, schools for the future, explores how a school and a community could coexist sharing resources and various facilities. Our current population is rapidly growing, and not just expanding, but increasing ... -
School of art and architecture: Interface between space and light in the school of art and architecture
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION How can the integration of space and light help to form a building typology for a combined school of art and architecture? ABSTRACT The shapes present in the architecture of an academic building ... -
Script + architecture
(2010)The objective of this Master’s thesis is to investigate the use of computer algorithms to aid the pre-conceptual stage in architectural design. The concept juggles the real world and the world of virtual design. I will be ... -
Sculpting a township’s identity: Enhancing the identity of Helensville through integration of sculpture
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can architecture enhance identity within a satellite township of Auckland, fostering an arts-based industry related to that town's identity? ABSTRACT: Identity is essential to a sense of belonging. ... -
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 ... -
Seeing is deceiving : illusionary architecture
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can deceptive visual experience be used as a productive architectural device? ABSTRACT: The commonly heard phrase ‘seeing is believing’ may hold true for general aspects of life but falls on ... -
"Sewing the seed" : an urban farming education centre in Orakei
(2017)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can we use selected architectural typologies to reconnect people with the educational value of natural food production? New Zealand’s population has been and is continuing to grow at an ... -
Shaping density : how can high density form yield good urban places?
(2018)PROJECT OUTLINE: Recently, the Government has purchased 29.3 hectares of Unitec Land within the Wairaka precinct. The proposed number of houses aimed to be built on this land has been described to be between 3000-4000 ... -
Shedding light on the out of sight - the design for a sustainable community that investigates the physical environmental impacts of the average New Zealand household
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can the design of a self-sufficient community reduce the environmental impacts of a New Zealand household? KEY OBJECTIVES ARE: 1.Investigate low-carbon construction in the residential ... -
Shipyard : a public architecture of assimilation
(2011)RESEARCH QUESTION: What are the aspects of architecture that provide an alternative to the current paradigms in both private industrial port architecture, and public waterfront architecture? The master thesis proposal ... -
Sing, sing urbanesia : a football stadium for Lae, Papua New Guinea
(2016)RESEARCH QUESTION: How might a stadium design in Lae, Papua New Guinea propose maximum value and meaning for the people of Lae? ABSTRACT: In an increasingly globalised world the question of place and identity in ... -
Sitting pretty : the architect & the chair
(2012)RESEARCH QUESTION: How does the process of making furniture and applying it to architecture improve an architect's design process, skills, values and knowledge? Throughout history great architects have proven success ... -
Social living project for Chinese elderly people without family support
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: 1. How can an architecturally designed project for the elderly in China provide mental and physical health support but also keep them connected to society? 2. With fewer opportunities for companionship ... -
Solitude in the city : the open cloister
(2015)This project develops a design for a Trappist monastery to be built within the Auckland central business district (C.B.D) area. This is an investigation into the opportunity of learning from various architectural cultures. ... -
Solo in the city : restructuring space, privacy, and autonomy in housing for a contemporary solo demographic
(2014)Whether constructed for an individual or a group, homes were once a reflection of the needs and preferences of their occupants, providing the foundation for stability, identity, and control. The commodification of shelter ... -
Something old: Something new
(2010)There currently is a shortage and demand for well-designed, high quality living and working developments in Auckland City. The majority of modernistic, small open-planned apartments do not cater for the diversity and ...
