Browsing Architecture Conference Papers by Type of Research "Conference Contribution - Oral Presentation"
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Architecture by us not without us
(2017-05-26)Māori Architecture in a Post Colonial context • Exploration of traditional construction technologies • Restoration and redevelopment of Marae environments • Māori engagement in the urban public realm -
Architecture for humanity: Shipping containers as Swiss Army knife
(2010-01-01)Surplus commercial shipping containers have re-gained popularity among developed countries recently and are often associated with fashionable, prefabricated second-homes, hotels, and even cities. However, when applied in ... -
Assessing the comprehensive competitiveness of Shangdong Peninsula Megaregion
(2015-11)The Shandong Peninsula Megaregion (SPM) is located in China’s eastern coastal area between the Yangtze River Delta and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Megaregions. To understand its status of development in the national context, ... -
Being different as a personality and being design unique requires respect, bravery, and patience vs What learnings from the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team can be gleaned by tertiary Architectural Students in teambuilding and dealing with differences
(The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), 2020-02)The Festival of Transitional Architecture (FESTA) is a voluntary organisation that came into being after the devastating Christchurch earthquakes between September 2010 and February 2011 (the latter claiming the lives of ... -
Bi-cultural architecture
(2015-07)Aotearoa/New Zealand is a bi-cultural country. There have been attempts to design buildings with this is mind, the most well known example being the National Museum (Te Papa). This contains pre-European Maori buildings, ... -
Earthquake vulnerability of wastewater pumping stations in New Zealand
(2010-09)New Zealand is located in an earthquake prone part of the world where earthquakes are the most common natural hazard in New Zealand. Consequently, earthquake vulnerability especially in lifelines is of great concern of ... -
The folly of suburban electrical boxes : re-assessing the suburban footpaths under Covid-19 lock-down L4 (25 March-27 April 2020) Auckland, New Zealand
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Guidelines for strawbale construction in New Zealand
(2015-08-21)* NZ Strawbale Construction Guidelines and Code of Practice – Working Party *International Scene – Building Codes and Guidelines for Straw Bale Construction *How BC Applications for strawbale construction are currently ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 -
The next fifty years: Eco-cyborg Chandigarh
(1999-01)There are good and bad things about Le Corbusier's plans and designs for Chandigarh. As we face the environmental and social uncertainties of the 21st century, it may be more productive to focus at the good things. The ... -
The open
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013-11)Recently there has been a renewed interest in Karl Popper’s The Open Society, written during the Second World War in Christchurch. Popper also wrote another major book The Poverty of Historicism, which has been much debated. ... -
Open architecture
(2014)The history of architecture revolves around the notion of closure. It is concerned with shelter, protection and differentiation. A history of openness in architecture has yet to be written. It does not see origins in the ... -
Open Architecture
(Association of Anthropology of Oceania, 2014)The history of architecture revolves around the notion of closure. It is concerned with shelter, protection and differentiation. A history of openness in architecture has yet to be written. It does not see origins in the ... -
Papakāinga 2014
(2014-10-31)Contact Period Papakāinga Village as refuge Depression Housing Post WW2 Māori Affairs Housing Marae based Māori Affairs Housing Current Māori Housing Patterns… Whare Nikau – Puatahi Marae 2006 Contact Period ... -
Planning for social outcomes
(2010-09-01)There is usually no purposeful connection between the physical planning of refugee camps and the social outcomes for those living in these camps with each being treated separately by independent groups or more often the ... -
Post-disaster recovery: Multi-agency leadership and co-ordination
(2010)Recovery is a vital phase in an emergency management and civil defence cycle aimed towards long-term community resilience. Leadership plays a crucial role in an emergency situation, especially in the response and recovery ... -
R-values, humidity and health : case studies from Auckland Wellington
(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 ...
