RestrictedArchive–Te Puna Rangahau: Recent submissions

  • The language of lace and embroidery from the court of Louis XIV through to contemporary haute couture 
    Lloyd, Catherine (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    The history of thread work is a story of practicality and functionality, but it is also a tale of power, fashion, virtuosity, decorum, art and culture. Thread work has played a role as a visual language in France for many ...
  • Picton_/02 
    Burn, Declan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Architecture and site exist in an oscillatory relationship, each functioning to shape and inform the other. Historically the built form of architecture, has repressed site to function as a receiving inert matter. To address ...
  • Reinstating Humanness: An Exploration Into The Design Of Human Settlements 
    Holden, Tom (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    As a child growing up in an early colonial village, and a keen traveler, I have spent a lifetime dwelling in the midst of historic settlements. A native Aucklander, and a fortuitous inhabitant of the western 21st century, ...
  • Two specific ESCRT components rescue the sphingolipid-mediated intracellular accumulation of ergosterol 
    Bradshaw, Amy R. (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Niemann-Pick type C (NP-C) disease is a lysosomal storage disorder characterised by the accumulation of cholesterol and sphingolipids in the late endosome/lysosome. The primary cause of NP-C disease is mutations in NPC1, ...
  • The Shadow Archive: The Resurrection of Abandoned Industrial Infrastructure 
    McCorkindale, Callum (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    As the world moves toward an increasingly predominant dependency on digital technology and digital information, digital data’s safeguard and accessibility become increasingly global and societal issues. As analogue methods ...
  • A Table made of Watercress: An understanding of atmosphere and gastronomy 
    Hickling, Lauren (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    "The pleasure of dining radiates outward from the alimentary tract to encompass impressions of the food, table, room and the larger context… the cuisine and place conspire to intensify sensual experience, to consolidate ...
  • Y500: Constructing architectural permanence through material agency 
    Crosby, Amanda (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    This thesis proposes that materials and time are active agents in architecture, and that permanence is contingent on material agency. It examines how, through dynamic relationships, materials shape inhabitation, spatiality, ...
  • Iterative Design for Approachable, Mobile-Based Collaborative Electronic Music Instruments 
    Barraclough, Timothy (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    The steep learning curve for technology for electronic music creation enforces a barrier to entry for new electronic musicians that prevents them from enjoying the playful process of creating music, without significant ...
  • Honour bound: A study of Royal Honours Systems in New Zealand and the other Commonwealth Realms 
    Anderton, Brian (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This thesis is a comparative analysis of the New Zealand Royal Honours System set within an historical context. It examines the institutional development and gradual indigenisation of this system. This thesis provides a ...
  • Boundary: An exploration of embodiment 
    Inglis, Alana Louise Eastwood (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Embodiment| the testing and experience of interior architecture through physical interaction. Interior spaces lack an intimate connection with the body. Enhancing the body’s significance within the design process gives ...
  • Plan B Hive: An outpost in the hinterland 
    Allnatt, Benjamin John (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    In May 2014, the New Zealand Government released plans that in the wake of a major Wellington disaster, parliament would temporarily shift to Auckland. This thesis instead proposes an alternative governmental 'outpost' on ...
  • Dwelling in the City: Towards an Integrated Medium-Density Housing Environment 
    Ayres, Nicholas (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This thesis responds to the shortcomings of current medium-density housing in allowing inhabitants to adequately experience the external environment. An iterative design-led investigation pursues a new form of medium-density ...
  • Late Cenozoic behaviour of two Transantarctic Mountain outlet glaciers 
    Jones, Richard (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Earth’s climate is undergoing dramatic warming that is unprecedented in at least the last ~2000 years. Outlets of the Antarctic ice sheet are experiencing dynamic thinning, terminus retreat and mass loss, however, we are ...
  • Architecture of Perspective 
    Marshall, Mary (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    The physical experience of space is very different to the plan or sectional view used by architects to generate design. The way in which we experience the world is three dimensional and perspective drawing offers a much ...
  • Wilderness Revisited; Designing to Dwell in Conservation Parts of New Zealand 
    Cowley, Kristen (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    New Zealanders have an inherent relationship to land and conservation, with the Department of Conservation (DOC) being at the forefront of helping to engage people with these isolated parts of New Zealand, often through ...
  • Freedom to Roam 
    Milne, Natasha (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This research aims to develop a regional model for walkways within rural environments which consider whole landscape approaches and the conflicting desires of landowners, conservationists and recreationists. A demand for ...
  • Designed Prosthetics 
    Challies, Zach (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    The goal of a facial prosthesis is to restore normality to a facial disfigurement caused by illness or injury. It is the first goal of the prosthetic technician to restore a sense of normality, confidence and comfort to a ...
  • Collectively: Extending the Housemuseum by Investigating its Capacity to Contain Collections at Different Scales 
    Collinson, Olivia (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    An international trend for museums to focus on people’s experience and education, over the accrual and care of collections, calls for an alternative to the existing model. The housemuseum links domestic and institutional ...
  • Exploring the paradoxes of addressing sustainability in commercial research: A study of scientist views 
    Ashby, Mary (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Research scientists increasingly engage in commercial research as well as face the need to address sustainability by taking into account the social, environmental and economic consequences of development activities. This ...
  • Stop. Drink. Play. The unique experience for a wine tasting 
    Cryer, Nina (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Tasting rooms have become a key strategy for wineries to attract and retain customers. Due to the rapid growth of the New Zealand wine industry, it has become a highly competitive environment and the quality of the visitor ...

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