Browsing Architecture Dissertations and Theses by Date Published
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Build a concept machine
(2023)RESEARCH QUESTION How can the use of computational design as a design process tool influence the design outcome for a community performance space? ABSTRACT In architectural practice, limited timeframes and budgets are ... -
A home for your worst days: The architecture of substance rehabilitation
(2022-10)RESEARCH QUESTION How can the architecture of an inner-city rehab be designed to create a healing environment for temporary residents recovering from addiction? ABSTRACT Drug and alcohol addiction affects a significant ... -
The next great escape: An investigation into architectural methods to improve fire egress in mid-rise sleeping occupancy buildings. An explanatory document
(2022-10)RESEARCH QUESTION How can architectural design interventions centered around circulation reduce egress time during the fire evacuation of a mid-rise residential sleeping occupancy structure? ABSTRACT Each year too ... -
Nuts and bolts: Empowering communities through making
(2022-10)RESEARCH QUESTION How can a community maker’s facility support empowerment on a personal and community scale? ABSTRACT With the current condition of over-consumption prevalent in society, the activities of making and ... -
The Nest: The development of a post-pandemic business incubator
(2022-10)RESEARCH QUESTION How can architecture contribute to the design of a collaborative workplace and education hub in a post-pandemic environment? ABSTRACT This project aims to solve a problem that has been prominent over ... -
Reconnecting a city’s forgotten identity: The revival of a lost cultural identity through a mixed-use museum project
(2022-10)RESEARCH QUESTION How can a community-scale museum facility be used to re-establish Guangzhou’s diminishing cultural identity? ABSTRACT The culture and identity of a city has always been directly connected to the ... -
Transformation beyond restoration
(2022-10)RESEARCH QUESTION How can a performing arts centre in the historic town of Ōamaru help create a more enticing environment for the younger generation? ABSTRACT Small towns in New Zealand are a pleasure to be in because ... -
To craft a piece of timber: A place for learning timber craft construction
(2022-10)RESEARCH QUESTION How can a place of learning and its approach to architecture and building revitalise timber craft construction in New Zealand? ABSTRACT The demands of society have favoured a standardised approach ... -
A new chapter in co-living
(2022-10)RESEARCH QUESTION How can young professionals be better supported through a co-living, co-working, post-pandemic environment in Auckland City? ABSTRACT The current growth in Auckland's population and the corresponding ... -
The core of coastal communities: Revisioning the surf club
(2022-10)RESEARCH QUESTION How can a multi-use Surf Lifesaving Community Hub enhance the engagement and inclusivity of people in the surrounding context? ABSTRACT As most of New Zealand’s communities are surrounded by coastlines, ... -
Way back home: A new care environment for dementia
(2022-10)RESEARCH QUESTION How can architectural stimulation improve the wellbeing of individuals with dementia in care facilities?” ABSTRACT 50 million people are living with dementia and an estimated 70,000 of those are in ... -
A day along the river: Creating a Fuding in the image of the greatest Chinese painting
(2022-10)RESEARCH QUESTION How can an architectural intervention help to rescue and educate on intangible cultural heritage and identity in Fuding, China? ABSTRACT China has become the largest construction site on earth, over ... -
Aspiring higher: Connecting the experience of churches and mountains
(2022-10)RESEARCH QUESTION How can we connect the human experience of the alpine environment to the experience of church architecture? ABSTRACT This project works in two parts, seeking to understand the human experience of ... -
The third teacher: An architectural project that encompasses the Reggio Emilia pedagogy
(2022-10)RESEARCH QUESTION How can a New Zealand kindergarten encompass the Reggio Emilia approach as its architecture? ABSTRACT The future is changing, so New Zealand should prepare the next generations by adapting its ... -
Tau ʻo uta: vaka+ fale+ kava
(2022-06)RESEARCH QUESTION How can contemporary Architecture better prepare youth in communities, in Tonga, Nuku’alofa and New Zealand, Auckland? ABSTRACT This study will focus on the youth in Tonga and New Zealand, together ... -
Living bridge
(2022-06)REEARCH QUESTIONS • How can the user's experience of Read Bridge be enhanced by making it habitable while maintaining its primary function and stability? • What does the inhabited bridge rely on to attract people to ... -
Tutū faʻatasi: A natural disaster relief centre in Poutasi, Sāmoa
(2022-05)RESEARCH QUESTION How can integrating cultural Sāmoan tectonics into a modern disaster relief centre help bring Sāmoan communities together while providing solutions for disaster relief issues? ABSTRACT The South ... -
Fekumi kihe potupotutatau ʻa e Tonga: Finding a balance of Tongan identity
(2022-05)RESEARCH QUESTION How can traditional Tongan narratives shape and inform cultural learning spaces? ABSTRACT Like most stories and traditions learned as children, it is through word of mouth. With every passing generation, ... -
The adaptive precinct: Strengthening cultural identity through adaptive reuse
(2022)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can adaptive reuse of post-earthquake Christchurch buildings regenerate the sense of place between a disengaged community and its city? ABSTRACT There has been an apparent disengagement between ... -
People of the city: Observing but also being observed
(2022)RESEARCH QUESTION How can a sense of public life be enhanced through architecture? ABSTRACT Public urban space has always been the essential element to consider in creating opportunities for socialising and allowing ...
