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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 ... -
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 ... -
Leon Battista Alberti, mental rotation and the origins of three-dimensional computer modeling
(2015-09)Buildings are three-dimensional objects, but architectural communication about them occurs primarily in the two-dimensional medium of drawings. The use of drawings to communicate about buildings goes back to ancient times; ... -
Māori architecture: A response to colonisation
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)For generations, Māori have disputed colonisation and the impact it has had on Indigenous peoples. As settlers acquired more land, Māori realised they were losing power over decision making in Aotearoa and began to create ... -
Metropolização Contemporânea: transformações territoriais nasmetrópoles da América Latina
(Universidade Federal do Amapá, 2017)Nas últimas décadas, as metrópoles passaram por profundas transformações urbanas. As novas tecnologias da informação e comunicação e o novo enfoque de governança baseado na ampla liberalização econômica impulsionaram ... -
My history is not mine : a speculative allegorical approach to experiential architecture
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)This design-led research investigation focuses on architecture as a representation of cultural loss. Globalisation has spread Eurocentric modernist architectural principles across most cultures. In a very real sense, many ... -
A pleasurable methodology: Joyously reimagining our neighbourhoods
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)The Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland neighbourhood of Ellerslie has undergone destructive erasures of ecology and indigeneity since colonisation. This is exemplified by the filling with concrete of the sacred subterranean caves, ... -
A produção do espaço urbano e da habitação social na escala metropolitana: efeitos do programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida na região metropolitana de Porto Alegre/RS
(2017)O presente trabalho discute a produção do espaço urbano a partir da habitação construída pelo Programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida − PMCMV. Buscou-se analisar a distribuição territorial dos empreendimentos enquadrados no ... -
Psalm
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)INTRODUCTION Psalm was the title of an exhibition in 2019, of sculptures by Bronwynne Cornish and paintings by Hamish Foote. Both artists reference the native biota of Aotearoa New Zealand, and aim to draw attention to ... -
Raw concepts of sustainability in vernacular dwellings : a case study of Kangbaiwan mansion in China
(2016-08)The building sector is one of the highest energy consuming sectors in the world as well as in China, it is urgent to seek an energy-saving way of sustainable architecture development. From ... -
(Re-)uses of historical knowledge in architectural education: The value of the client – Reginald Ford on professional practice
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)With the support of Tūāpapa Rangahau Research and Enterprise at Unitec New Zealand, a research project devoted to Gummer and Ford – an Auckland architectural firm founded in 1923 by William Henry Gummer (1884–1966) and ... -
Re-solved: iterating design solutions by understanding failure
(Queensland University of Technology (QUT), 2017)Design is considered one of the most important parts of an architectural education. Much emphasis is placed upon the Design Studio within a School of Architecture, yet in the traditional tutor/student model how much ... -
Reestruturação metropolitana e emergência de centralidades: novos fluxos pendulares e a configuração espacial da Região Metropolitana de Porto Alegre / Metropolitan restructuring and the emergence of centralities: New commuting flows and the spatial configuration of the Metropolitan Region of Porto Alegre
(Universidad do Vale de Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), 2018)RESUMO O texto discute os processos de desconcentração das atividades produtivas da Região Metropolitana de Porto Alegre (RMPA), buscando investigar variáveis implicadas na emergência de novas centralidades e suas ... -
Resilient hub
(ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 2023-11-21)The proposal describes a community hub; a site located within the suburban and urban built environment, made up of an arrangement of community-run buildings and facilities. Modern sustainable technologies and building ... -
Self formation and innovation
(EdA International Journal, 2015-09-27)Contemporary architecture and product design is confronted with a rapidly increasing offer of new materials and technologies. At the same time a growing consciousness can be observed that some established solutions need a ... -
Six rules for housing design in the city
(AGM A Division of BCI Central, 2019-08-22)Almost every discussion of housing amongst architects turns to a critique of design priorities in the speculative market – the product of an industry that supplies two-thirds or more of all housing in cities in New Zealand ... -
Stilled in the city by coloured light
(Screencity Lab, 2013-09)Does coloured light still have the power to silence us? In the current urban world of social media and 30-second sound bites, do we have any retreats from our “uba-paced” lifestyle? Is there time and are there places where ... -
Suburban styles: Housing design at higher densities in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)Suburban housing design in Aotearoa New Zealand’s cities evolved through the twentieth century with adaptable styles to suit changing fashions and various forms of external expression. Designers followed a path that saw a ... -
Taurua’s whare
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This paper will discuss Taurua’s whare: a whare built to memorialise Taurua Nātana, his mokopuna, and others and to shelter manuhiri engaged in the pōhiri process at Waiōhau marae. Taurua’s whare is part of the Waiōhau ...
