• Can form-based codes be the opportunity to achieve a quality built environment in Aotearoa New Zealand? 

      Zombori, E.; van Bruggen, B. (ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 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 ...
    • A contemporary Pacific village: A proposal 

      Roach, E. (ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 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. ...
    • Courtyard housing: A mid-density alternative 

      Turner, David (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.
    • Courtyard housing: A mid-density alternative house-type 

      Turner, David (ePress, Unitec | 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 ...
    • Decolonising and re-indigenising neighbourhood design 

      Clark, G. (ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 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 ...
    • The fires of ambition: Te Awa Tupua 2040 

      Taʻala, Ahlia-Mei (ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 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 ...
    • From terraces to Deco: "First editions’ in Auckland’s high density housing 

      Turner, David (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 ...
    • A layered conservation response to the layers of built history 

      Bezuidenhout, T.; McConchie, Graeme (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 ...
    • Māori architecture: A response to colonisation 

      Ratana, Maia (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 ...
    • Six rules for housing design in the city 

      Turner, David (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 ...
    • Suburban styles: Housing design at higher densities in Aotearoa New Zealand 

      Turner, David (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 

      Rangiwai, Byron (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 ...
    • Translation and continuity of tradition: An ongoing dialogue in Aotearoa New Zealand 

      Kaur, J.; Jadresin-Milic, Renata (INTBAU Spain, 2021-11-10)
      English and Spanish parallel text Though short, Aotearoa/New Zealand’s history is rich and holds an abundance of knowledge preserved in the form of songs, beliefs, practices, and narratives that inform this country’s ...
    • Walking backwards into the future in Te Pokapū Tāone, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s city centre 

      Nicholls, L. (ePress, Unitec|Te Pūkenga, 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, ...