RestrictedArchive–Te Puna Rangahau

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Welcome to RestrictedArchive–Te Puna Rangahau, the closed repository for research outputs from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

This collection contains papers and theses authored by University staff and students.

The content in the collection was migrated from http://restrictedarchive.vuw.ac.nz in 2021.

Access to this collection is restricted to University staff and students.

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Ambiguity of Freedom; Using Interior Architecture and Fashion to Understand Homelessness
(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016) Crowley, Megan; Abreu e Lima, Daniele
This design led research project has focused on interior architecture, with an interest in fashion, and inter-disciplinary techniques. This project expanded the boundaries of what is considered interior architecture and what is considered clothing. This combination was used to raise the awareness of and improve the living conditions of those who are homeless within Wellington, New Zealand. In doing so, this provides affordable design for those who lack the accessibility of designed environments. The official New Zealand definition of homelessness includes a wide range of people extending beyond rough sleepers. These are of course among the most well-known, but there is a large range of homelessness and this project has offered opportunities for help and has raised awareness for all. This range makes it hard to provide one solution that is successful for all homeless people as there are a range of issues that need catering to. This project expresses this and caters to the gap. Society can have a strong disassociation with homelessness, as a lot of people have not experienced it thus do not fully understand it. This research developed a design project to fill this need, and raised the awareness of homelessness for others. Finally, this research project provided a critique for past and current homeless solutions. Commonly, solutions choose pragmatics over design, thus implementing final designs lacking interest and inspiration for homeless people.
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Collapsing the Veil Between the Worlds: Inhabiting the Cinematic Effect
(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015) Jenner, Ashleigh Nicole; Abreu e Lima, Daniele
As industrial aesthetics within the built environment become obsolete in a post-industrial setting, the quality of inhabitable spaces within Wellington’s industrial buildings declines, and numerous opportunities to reuse this rich built fabric dissipate. This is due to the lack of consideration given to their heritage value in New Zealand currently. Moving towards the typology’s demise, a fundamental layer of Wellington’s built history is irreversibly lost and notions of architectural permanence come under question when the architectural merit inside and out is undervalued and classed as redundant. This is one such contemporary example highlighting the need to regenerate an inhabitable projection of reality within these spaces to challenge the current stigma attached to the interiority value and maintain these built documents of history. Filmic space, created in moving-image media, offers a range of atmospheric generation techniques that do not conform to limitations of reality due to the cinematographic interpretation of real space and temporal engagement depicted within these spaces. When applied to the built environment, this method allows concepts of illusion to infiltrate into atmospheric production. In response, this provides alternatives for expressing interiority and changes preconceptions of existing buildings that current architectural representational media can often lack. Contemporary design methods of making and representing space are well-grounded within digital media, including animation production. Due to this, methods of spatial generation and depiction are increasingly becoming more automatic. Through the creation and use of a framework defining filmic space, and a cinematic vision method to apply this framework derived from theoretical and applied filmography studies, this design-led research thesis seeks to suggest whether cinematic motions can be an effective spatial generator, in this circumstance, for the interior adaptive reuse and protection of this industrial aesthetic abundance. The framework for the generation of physical filmic space is embodied within the methodology of cinematic vision consisting of time and memory, the blurring of reality with illusion and exploring the relationship between the observer versus the observed. Which can effectively mediate the synthesis of the historically rich industrial fabric of the Kilbirne bus depot and new programming: a permanent Weta Museum and public film hub. This thesis argues that using a filmic space framework as a spatial method can produce interior architectural interventions that respect the historic integrity of a building and simultaneously create a new identity that seeks to challenge current de facto ttitudes held against industrial sites. It also proposes to harvest cinematic techniques to infiltrate into the creation of interior filmic spaces’ through the removal of the boundary, the screen, mediating represented and inhabitable space to generate this framework. Whilst in the process, challenging current cinematic limitations in architectural processes and representation. The thesis seeks to achieve this by manifesting filmic techniques into a usable architectural ‘filmic space’ framework, and utilising the framework throughout the entire design process form research to final design. It also seeks to achieve this through the dentification and curation of fundamental characteristic qualities currently embodied within the site through a filmic site analysis process to weave the historic narrative into the proposed design and continue the developing history of the key building. Overall the design led research suggests that a filmic spatial method is an effective atmospheric generative tool to successfully revive degenerative interior spaces allowing the appropriation of this built form typology and prevention of loss.
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The Labyrinth of the Mind: Exploring the Five Stages of Grief through Interior Architecture
(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016) Apelinga, Xavier; Abreu e Lima, Daniele
Since the 1930’s, New Zealand has seen a dramatic rise in psychological disorders such as paranoia, depression, anxiety, and addiction. People in general are often too caught up in their own lives to acknowledge what is happening around them, which hinder them from recognising those who suffer from these disorders. Psychological disorders come in different levels; some are subtle whilst others are extreme. Thus, arises the problem of how the experience of a psychological disorder can be presented and explored in an alternative manner. My thesis explores the subject of ‘grief’ and interpret the ‘Five Stages of Grief’ formulated by Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in her book On Death and Dying through experiential means of interior architecture. The five stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – are critically examined and presented as a narrative for the general people to experience and allow them to gain a deeper understanding of the psychological implications of grief through the proposed intervention. Through the methodology of narrative design, the intricate experience of psychological disorders are illustrated spatially in a meaningful way and in turn encourage empathy. My thesis aims to provide various interior design explorations that demonstrates appropriate spatial qualities for each of the stages of grief. This involves manipulation of different sensory elements such as form and light. Various sensory elements influence the state of mind of an environmental observer, which results to difficulty in understanding an affective experience. To conclude, my thesis proposes five experiential spaces that represent the five stages of grief within the boundaries of Mount Crawford Prison. Through manipulation of light and form, five experiential spaces will be proposed to allow people gain an emotional understanding of the psychological implications of grief.
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Lost Beneath the Rubble
(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016) Penny, Eve; Abreu e Lima, Daniele
The Christchurch Lichfield Lanes were an iconic part of the cultural, social and historic identity of the city. Adapted from service yards and lanes of the historic warehouse buildings, the lanes provided more than just a thoroughfare, but a destination, offering a range of entertainment, retail and hospitality opportunities. The Lichfield Lanes enriched the central city of Christchurch, creating a sense of discovery and intrigue. The February 2011 Earthquake left the Lichfield Lanes in ruins, with many historic warehouses and other surrounding buildings destroyed. The earthquake has had a devastating effect on the people of Christchurch, with many being displaced from their homes and workspaces due to the damage in the city centre. The closure of the CBD, the home of the nightlife, entertainment and dining hub, caused a lack of places for people to socialise, causing a loss of community and culture that the city had possessed prior to the earthquake. This thesis explores how interior architecture can be used as a device to re-vitalise the iconic Lichfield Lanes, in order to bring life back into the city centre of Christchurch. Research involved consideration into urban interior spaces, heritage conservation and sensorial qualities, to create a vast range of spatial experiences that connect people with the past whilst addressing a contemporary setting. This thesis proposes an interior architectural design approach that re- establishes the Lichfield Lanes, providing opportunities for social and cultural engagement, and a potential for small businesses.

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