Browsing Architecture Conference Papers by Title
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Immeuble-villas between Le Corbusier and Albert Gessner
(SAHANZ, 2013)One of the open questions for contemporary urban living in the city is the issue of density. What level of urban density is sustainable and appropriate for a healthy, enjoyable lifestyle as well as for the unfolding of ... -
Impact of building envelope design on Auckland public library energy consumption
(2018)This study investigated impact of building envelope design on energy consumption of Auckland public libraries under local climatic conditions. Energy consumption data and library building envelope design data of the 30 ... -
Impact of building envelope design on energy consumption of the Auckland library
(Advanced Building Skins GmbH, 2017-10)This pilot study is to investigate impact of building envelope design on energy consumption of Auckland public libraries. There are about 55 public libraries in Auckland. Monthly energy consumption data for a whole year ... -
Impacts of the Courtyard with Glazed Roof on House Winter Thermal Conditions
(2011)The ‘wind-rain’ house has a courtyard with glazed roof, which allows more direct sunlight to come into indoor spaces during the winter. The glazed roof can be partially opened or closed and automatically controlled to ... -
Integration of design and technology
(Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia, 2007)Certification Boards visiting architecture schools regularly demand more ‘technology’ in the curriculum, and an increased ‘integration’ of design and technology in the teaching programme. The persistence of this over many ... -
Intensive design building studio : a collaboration with industry
(Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA, 2018-11)The purpose of this paper is to explore a case study project between a timber supplier, industry body and an architecture school. The project, an installation stand, became a test to access how resilient junior architectural ... -
Is there a place for natural building in New Zealand’s conventional housing market? : a prefabricated straw bale case study
(2014-09)Natural materials Why it is important Natural buildings in New Zealand Natural Materials in NZ - earth, straw bale, logs, cordwood, hempcrete Straw bale Pros and cons Stramit Board and Durra Panels Ecococon Straw ... -
Iterating success : learning to change through understanding failure
(Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia (AASA), 2015-10)In 2012 a collection of architecture and design schools in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch came together under the umbrella of FESTA to realise a city of light within central Christchurch, devastated by the events ... -
Jungle Jim? Odo Strewe and Tropical Influence, 1948-1965
(2009)Odo Strewe left Europe in May 1937, a refugee from Nazi Germany, and island hopped his way across the South Pacific to land in New Zealand in June 1938. Twenty years later, having established a family and a landscape ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Less and more in Aotearoa New Zealand : more houses and less CO₂ emissions
(Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), 2017-12)The aim of this paper is to present the case for further research into using a broader range of bio‐based materials, specifically straw, for construction in Aotearoa New Zealand. It is predominantly a literature review ... -
The Licensed Building Practitioners Scheme : four years on.
(International Association for Housing Science (IAHS), 2016-09)The Licensed Building Practitioners Scheme (LBP Scheme), restricting certain aspects of the design and construction of residential buildings in New Zealand to licensed building personnel, was a Government initiative passed ... -
Low carbon rules : an interdisciplinary approach to writing standards for earth and straw construction in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), 2020-11)In order to realise a future where a variety of low carbon building options is readily available, their consenting needs to be supported by relevant standards to assist their path through the regulatory process. The recently ... -
Māori housing experiences of prefabrication : opportunities and challenges
(2015-04-23)*Papakāinga Prefabrication projects *The nature and challenges of Māori housing projects *Opportunities for the sector -
Measuring the qualitative aspects of a reconstruction programme: Aceh, Indonesia
(i-Rec, 2006)Aid Agencies are accountable for the funds that they administer and consequently there is a reporting requirement to demonstrate that any intervention (such as a permanent housing program) is beneficial to those that the ...
