Re:Use: How can the adaptive reuse of parking structures better facilitate societal need in Auckland, New Zealand
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Metcalf, Daniel Paul
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Master of Architecture (Professional)
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Unitec, Te Pūkenga – New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology
Date
2025
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Shamout, Sameh
Melchiors, Lucia
Melchiors, Lucia
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Masters Thesis
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Auckland CBD (N.Z.)
Auckland (N.Z.)
New Zealand
parking garages
adaptive reuse of buildings
housing in Auckland
affordable housing
Auckland (N.Z.)
New Zealand
parking garages
adaptive reuse of buildings
housing in Auckland
affordable housing
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Metcalf, D.P. (2025) Re:Use: How can the adaptive reuse of parking structures better facilitate societal need in Auckland, New Zealand (Unpublished document submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture (Professional)). Unitec, Te Pūkenga - New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/7209
Abstract
Car park usage in Auckland Central is in decline, with high vacancy rates owing to many contributing factors. Work-from-home jobs and increased methods of urban mobility are reducing commutes into the city by private vehicles. This is leaving voids in the urban fabric that could better be used to facilitate greater societal needs, such as easing the pressure of the housing market.
Whilst many building typologies lend themselves to adaptive reuse, this thesis is an investigation into the adaptive reuse of parking structures in Auckland, New Zealand. Office buildings and other typologies propose different dynamic challenges and barriers to parking structures so are out of the scope of this project.
The research output will take the form of Exploratory Research of (but not limited to) the New Zealand housing market, construction industry, pressing societal needs, shifts in city centre usage, evolving urban mobility, universal design/accessibility, and relevant architectural precedents. It will explore public opinion of parking structures and why the negative connotations associated with them, are what make them ideal for adaptive reuse.
It will explore how adaptive reuse can be applied at differing levels through four design interventions, all applied to a single chosen parking structure, with the final stage devoted to the exploration of technical details that make this adaptive reuse possible.
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