Browsing Architecture Journal Articles by Date Published
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A contemporary Pacific village: A proposal
(Unitec, Te Pūkenga, ePress, 2023-11-21)This paper proposes a contemporary Pacific village as a response to the pressing housing issues of Pacific communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. More specifically, the proposal explores this at the scale of a neighbourhood. ... -
Developing urban furniture by Unitec students for an emerging urban fabric in Auranga, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland: The socio-ecological dynamics of creative sustainable prototyping production during the Covid-19 crisis
(Unitec, Te Pūkenga, ePress, 2023-11-21)As the number of suburban communities in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland grows, it’s essential to consider the social component when planning and developing these communities in order to improve social resilience and reduce social ... -
A pleasurable methodology: Joyously reimagining our neighbourhoods
(Unitec, Te Pūkenga, ePress, 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, ... -
Distributed resource centre: A soft Infrastructure for neighbourhood creativity
(Unitec, Te Pūkenga, ePress, 2023-11-21)This article presents the Distributed Resource Centre as a soft, low-cost, generative, and fun decentralised infrastructure for neighbourhood creativity. The article defines the concept (as flow vs stock), outlines some ... -
Can form-based codes be the opportunity to achieve a quality built environment in Aotearoa New Zealand?
(Unitec, Te Pūkenga, ePress, 2023-11-21)This article suggests that our current land-use planning is routinely failing to make good places where people want to live. The inability of land-use zoning to generate mixed-use neighbourhoods is one reason. Instead of ... -
Designing neighbourhoods to facilitate intercultural encounters: Negotiating between self, society and place
(Unitec, Te Pūkenga, ePress, 2023-11-21)Globalisation, and the consequent migratory processes, have radically transformed many countries across the world. A greater number of people with diverse backgrounds have been travelling to more places for numerous reasons. ... -
The fires of ambition: Te Awa Tupua 2040
(Unitec, Te Pūkenga, ePress, 2023-11-21)Upon introduction, Māori will often, ask “Ko wai koe?”, or at the beginning of a pepeha, Māori might say, “Ko wai au?” The concept of ‘ko wai au’ is both a question and a statement in one. In one sense ‘ko wai au’ is asking ... -
Decolonising and re-indigenising neighbourhood design
(Unitec, Te Pūkenga, ePress, 2023-11-21)How do we create a fairer, more equitable future? How do we create neighbourhoods that serve and nurture us; spaces that reflect us, that bring beauty, that inform our identities? Urbanists are generally reluctant to address ... -
Walking backwards into the future in Te Pokapū Tāone, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s city centre
(Unitec, Te Pūkenga, ePress, 2023-11-21)Te pokapū tāone o Tāmaki, Auckland’s city centre, is the belly of Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand’s fastest growing residential neighbourhood and a significant contributor to the region and to the country. Globally, ... -
Imagining a narrative form for place
(Unitec, Te Pūkenga, ePress, 2023-11-21)Applying long-term thinking to placemaking is challenging when practitioners work within short timeframes to deliver a project – usually from the length of a funding window to that of an on-the-ground build. In order for ... -
Katamari Kart: A serious and hilarious sub/urban game for more serendipitous, playful and friendly public art
(Unitec, Te Pūkenga, ePress, 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 ... -
Resilient hub
(Unitec, Te Pūkenga, ePress, 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 ... -
Courtyard housing: A mid-density alternative house-type
(Unitec ePress, Te Pūkenga, 2022-12-27)The main objectives of housing policy in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland are to increase the city’s density and to increase its total stock of affordable housing. In the current market, family housing for lower-priced mid-density ... -
The design of the Dilworth Building
(Unitec ePress, Te Pūkenga, 2022-12-27)The Dilworth Building was architecture firm Gummer and Ford’s first significant building. It was completed in 1927 and sits on one of the most prominent locations in Aotearoa New Zealand, the corner of Queen Street and ... -
Courtyard housing: A mid-density alternative
(AGM A Division of BCI Central, 2022-10-27)At a time when housing markets in Aotearoa New Zealand are slowing down, there might be an unexpected opportunity to revisit some of the regulations that direct our urban housing policies. -
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 ... -
Dirt under our fingernails: Daylighting waste at the Dome
(enigma : he aupiki, 2022-03-29)[...] How might this “productivist bias” be countered by taking erosion, breakdown and decay as our starting points? In this article I explore this possibility with respect to a controversial proposed landfill in Dome ... -
From terraces to Deco: "First editions’ in Auckland’s high density housing
(AGM A Division of BCI Central, 2022-02-28)Naming a designstyle is not a common practice for architects in the twenty-firstcentury. However, it is interesting to reflect on the nameable styles of housingarchitecture that emerged between 1995 and 2006, when Auckland’s ... -
4º Distrito de Porto Alegre: Um panorama histórico-temático dos planos e ações governamentais das últimas três décadas (1991 - 2021) = 4th District of Porto Alegre: A historical-thematical overview of governmental plans and actions of the last three decades (1991 - 2021)
(Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geografico do Rio Grande do Sul, 2022)RESUMO Nas últimas três décadas, uma série de planos e projetos foram elaborados pela Prefeitura de Porto Alegre visando a reestruturação urbana do seu antigo distrito industrial: o 4º Distrito. Através do resgate e análise ... -
Enigmatic assemblages: Follies at the intersection of architecture and photography
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)Hyperreal architectural photographic assemblages proliferate within contemporary media: artists, photographers and architects envision digital worlds that operate at the intersection of hyperreal architectural renders, ...
