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The Kahoa Village : how can architects and architecture respond to New Zealand’s most pressing issue - homelessness?
(2019)This project investigates how architecture responds to New Zealand’s most pressing issue: homelessness. This project targets the underlying issues that those that are homeless are dealing with on a daily basis. It also ... -
Karangahape Road train station : an urban catalyst for revitalisation
(2015)The general focus of this research project is to explore how a train station in a rich and diverse up and coming neighbourhood can act as a catalyst for architectural exploration. This exploration is how architecture ... -
Katamari Kart: A serious and hilarious sub/urban game for more serendipitous, playful and friendly public art
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)The article presents the sub/urban game-method Katamari Kart, where people roam industrial and suburban areas collecting waste materials and progressively building a large and mobile public sculpture. This game-method ... -
KATO.NI.MANA (Box of knowlege): Building cyclone resistent rural Fijian communities through social, environmental, and sustainable architectural responses
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION How can rural Fijian communities create a resilient and sustainable environment? ABSTRACT The traditional response to cyclone resilience has generally focused on construction techniques and materials ... -
Kāinga Manaaki : how can the Manaaki Tāngata Programme inspire marae based kāinga, to support vulnerable whānau in the pursuit of mana motuhake?
(2020)This project aims to explore marae-based housing solutions in Auckland for vulnerable whānau as they seek to pursue mana motuhake. Successive Government policies, which have led to the alienation of Māori from ancestral ... -
“Keep it Pumping” : breathing new life into redundant storage tanks
(2012)What is an appropriate and relevant design for the adaptive reuse of existing storage tanks on Auckland’s waterfront, which reintegrates them in a suitable way to their redeveloped environment while still retaining their ... -
Keynote Speech 4: Cooling is the new heating: NZ’s self-denial.
(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 ... -
Khasab contemporary architecture : exploration of heritage and modernity in the Arabian Gulf context
(2017)AIMS & OBJECTIVES: • Identify the significant elements of heritage, rituals and the growth of villages in the region. (History and heritage study) • Explore use of new (suitable) technology, building methods and social ... -
Kintsukuroi : natural lighting, tectonics and materiality
(2017)This project is an investigation of Japanese architectural characteristics and the ability to adapt them to the New Zealand context. The characteristics have been chosen due to their universal applications. They, in some ... -
Ko au ko Ngāpuhi, ko Ngāpuhi ko au : I am Ngāpuhi, Ngāpuhi is me
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can architecture assist with the preservation and restoration of Ngāpuhi identity? ABSTRACT: Identity has continually been subject to change through history and circumstances. As time has ... -
Korea Korea : architectural choreography of collateral collisions at the DMZ
(2014)The two Koreas have now been separated for the last six decades. In between these two nations lies the Demilitarised Zone. This boundary not only acts as a geophysical barrier, but also as a psychological barrier. ... -
Land stewardship in the climate wrung epoch
(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 ... -
Land, symbiosis & cultural identity : curating a collective narrative in Fiji
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can the cultural identity of Fiji be narrated through architectural intervention? ABSTRACT: The Pacific Region is facing several inevitable challenges; the degradation of ecosystems, the need ... -
Late Bloomer: The Live Centre of Whangārei 1875-1909
(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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Le Corbusier's early urban studies as source of experiential architectural knowledge
(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 ... -
Le malofie : a research project invested in the exploration of Pacific art's influence on New Zealand's architecture
(2015)“E sui faiga, ae tumau fa’avae” “The form changes, but the underlying principles remain” - Samoan proverb The 1950s saw New Zealand open their doors to migrants as jobs became more abundant. Auckland, often regarded ... -
Learning about Landscape Odo Strewe and the Group
(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?"
(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 ...