• R-values, humidity and health : case studies from Auckland Wellington 

      Su, Bin (2017-05)
      The Auckland winter is rainy season. High indoor relative humidity is a major issue for Auckland housing indoor health conditions (Figure 1). According to international and national standards, the indoor relative humidity ...
    • Relevance of Renaissance architectural theories today : together. 

      Jadresin-Milic, Renata; Pretty, Annabel (Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media. Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, 2018-04)
      This paper will strive to identify and analyse the multiplicity of threaded knots which lurk under the surface of a mythologised Renaissance as characterised by monolithic classicism and untangling this to create a shared ...
    • Resources and capacity: Lessons learned from post-disaster reconstruction resourcing in Indonesia, China and Australia 

      Chang, Yan; Wilkinson, Suzanne; Potangaroa, Regan; Seville, Erica (2010)
      Post-disaster reconstruction poses resourcing challenges specific to the construction practitioners and requires constant improvements of the construction industry and of the environment in which it operates. By drawing ...
    • Rethinking: Humanising: Isolation: Aotearoa New Zealand (A novel approach to design) 

      Ladegourdie, C.; Pretty, Annabel (Universidade Lusófona do Porto, 2022-11)
      Our modern, globalised world is more vulnerable to infectious diseases that can spread voraciously—globalisation has aided the rapid spread of diseases and increased the frequency with which goods and people are transported ...
    • Rewind on imagining future cities through drama and design 

      Wake, Sue (Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), 2020-11-26)
      It is asserted that people in first world countries have become consumed by ‘things’ and ‘wants’, rather than ‘needs.’ This mindset has been challenged by the Covid-19 pandemic, as we have experienced a reduced existence ...
    • The role of architectural history research: Auckland’s NZI building as William Gummer’s attempt at humanity 

      Madanovic, Milica; Moore, Cameron; Jadresin-Milic, Renata (Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 2022-11)
      In response to the third thematic sub-stream of the 38th Annual SAHANZ Conference, this paper will discuss the role of architectural research in the architecture of Gummer and Ford, the Auckland-based practice, often ...
    • Saving the home shop : the future of small earthquake prone buildings in New Zealand 

      Murphy, Chris (International Association for Housing Science (IAHS), 2014)
      The New Zealand Government is in the process of considering a law that would require all commercial, multi unit and multi-storey residential buildings upgraded and strengthened to a minimum of 35% or more of the New Building ...
    • Saving the past : new challenges for earthquake prone buildings in New Zealand 

      Murphy, Chris (Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), 2015-12)
      The challenges facing heritage buildings in New Zealand will become all the more significant if legislation to strengthen building code requirements for these buildings is enacted. The strengthening proposals particularly ...
    • School design and energy efficiency 

      Su, Bin (2011)
      Auckland has a temperate climate with comfortable warm, dry summers and mild, wet winters. An Auckland school normally does not need air conditioning for cooling during the summer and only need heating during the winter. ...
    • Showcasing green urbanism on waterfronts: A comparative study of Porto Alegre and Auckland 

      Bogunovich, Dushko; Wagner, Cesar (International Federation for Housing and Planning, 2010)
      Porto Alegre and Auckland - being port cities on river estuaries, comparable in size and age, and sharing a number of morphological analogies - are similar enough to enable and justify a comparative analysis and evaluation ...
    • Smart city, resilient region : the case for smart resilience and Genoa as an international model 

      Bogunovich, Dushko (2015-06)
      Raffaele La Capria, in his novel, “Ferito a morte” which was awarded the Strega prize in 1961, already talked about Naples, his hometown, describing the transformations it was subject to, because of property speculation. The ...
    • Space and Culture Using Space Syntax for the Tenganan Pageringsingan Housing of Bali, Indonesia 

      Aryan, Ni Putu; Potangaroa, Regan (International Conference -Green Architecture for Sustainable Living and Environment, 2014)
      Is there a connection between space and the culture that it seemingly contains? Does the space define the culture, or does the culture define the space or is it some combination, working at perhaps different hierarchies? This ...
    • Spatial syntax analysis of tent layouts 

      Potangaroa, Regan; Chan, Tao (2010)
      Spatial Syntax is a set of concepts and techniques for the analysis of spatial configurations that were originally developed by Hillier and Hanson in the late 1980’s (Space Syntax, 2009). They were intended to be a tool ...
    • The spatial syntax of Iraqi refugee housing in Syria 

      Potangaroa, Regan; Chan, Tao (2010)
      Space Syntax developed from the work of Benedikt in 1979 and then Hillier and Hanson in 1984. Benedikt created visual maps within building plans by drawing the contours of equal visual areas calling the resulting map an ...
    • Sponge city : bring nature to the Chinese citiy 

      Bradbury, Matthew; Wang, Xinxin; Zhu., K (2016-11)
      通过四个项目:二个位于新西兰奥克兰,两 个位于中国,探索了当代城市防洪的方法。 这四个项目的分析均采用业内常用的方法: 汇水区分析、GIS分析和建设模式分析。但这几种 方法的综合运用产生了独特的削减和处理雨洪的 效果。 城市导致洪水加剧已成为共识,减缓城市洪 水的方法亦广为人知。绿色屋顶、雨水花园、植 草沟、湿地等均为在城区内削减洪水的方法。 但是这些对城市本身的设计有什么影响?传 统的城市由密集的建筑和基础设施组成。新城的 ...
    • Staging change : collectivism in the Cook Islands 

      Budgett, Jeanette; Dixon, Rod (2015-07)
      Discussions of architecture and performativity swing between the formal, technical and tectonic object to an architecture of ever-broader relationships. The object discussed in this paper, the Cook Islands mission chapel, ...
    • Stepping back : a look at managed retreat in NZ 

      Bloomfield, Sibyl (Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), 2018-11)
      In 1990 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change proposed the adaptation strategies of Protect, Accommodate and Retreat, and these were adopted and incorporated into New Zealand’s national policy. This paper investigates ...
    • Structural quality control in the field 

      Potangaroa, Regan; Chang, Yan; Zuo, Kelvin; Wilkinson, Suzanne (2010)
      The quality control of structural elements for post disaster reconstruction in the field is problematic. Test facilities are often remote, training can be inadequate and the attitude of suppliers and contractors can be ...
    • Sustainable timber potential for Northland, New Zealand 

      Newman, Neil; Francis, Kerry (Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association, 2010)
      This paper explores the feasibility and potential use of locally grown timber alternatives to chemically treated Pinus radiata for domestic construction in the Northland region. Current and potential locally grown alternative ...
    • Te aitanga pepeke me ngā pūngāwerewere : The world of insects and spiders 

      Francis, Kerry (Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), 2020-11)
      “Insects are by far the most varied and abundant animals [on the planet] outweighing humanity by 17 times... They are essential for the functioning of all ecosytems... “so wrote journalist Damian Carrington in the Guardian ...