RestrictedArchive–Te Puna Rangahau: Recent submissions

  • Whimsical city 
    Deynzer, Cameron (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    The homogenised nature of inner city buildings and living do little to stimulate imagination. Instead they show the impoverished nature of the contemporary city. Current inner city housing holds negative perceptions; ...
  • Old Hardware | New Software: An Urban Recreation Retreat by the Waikanae River 
    Fletcher, Jonathan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    There is sufficient evidence that the urban areas around the Kapiti district do not adequately provide for the youth. The project addresses this missed opportunity by proposing an outdoor recreational facility by the ...
  • The first line back: Creating lightness along the coast 
    Gilbert, Gwena Rose (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    The desire to live along the coastline needs to be met by a change in the way we build in this shifting environment. Nationally and internationally, the built environment has created solid barriers along the coast. The ...
  • Kafka's Anubim: Death, Anxiety and Architecture 
    Ritani, Matt Joseph Taylor (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Terror management theory asserts that Western society is built upon a deep anxiety of death. This anxiety is manifest in a hero system that encourages the building of legacy. Legacy allows us to transcend our bodies and ...
  • Street perceptions: A study of visual preferences for New Zealand streetscapes 
    Gjerde, Morten (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    City leaders often make reference to their built and natural environments when they compete domestically or internationally for financial investment, tourism spending and high quality workers. These leaders are aware that ...
  • Novel Methodologies for the Synthesis of Multivalent Glycoconjugates 
    Munneke, Stefan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Glycoconjugates, such as glycolipids and glycoproteins, play an important role in health and disease. The synthesis and biological evaluation of these glycoconjugates allows for the development of novel carbohydrate-based ...
  • The Unsettled Landscape: The Core to Coastal Fabrics 
    Chan, Oliver (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    ‘The Unsettled Landscape’ considers an alternative sustainable manner in which communities can settle New Zealand’s coastland. Living at the ocean edge is ingrained in the way many of our urban settlements have formed, and ...
  • In-between surfaces 
    Seyb, Louise (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    As research through design, this thesis takes a fresh look at the ageing population which is a looming problem for all New Zealand communities. The thesis questions: How can we design a new type of aged care living to ...
  • Integrated Territories 
    Sanson, Georgia (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Watts Peninsula is a nationally unique cultural heritage site situated on the northern end of Miramar Peninsula, Wellington. The abundance of recreational links, natural values and military history that comprise the area ...
  • Translating Maxim Biller's Moralische Geschichten into English 
    Simmonds, Charlotte (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Born in Prague in 1960 to Russian-Jewish parents, Maxim Biller emigrated to the GDR with his family as a child, where he became a leading German satirist and provocateur, a novelist, playwright, short story and essay writer. ...
  • Estimating the Vocabulary Size of L1 Spanish ESP Learners and the Vocabulary Load of Medical Textbooks 
    Quero, Betsy (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    The main goal of this research on the vocabulary load of medical textbooks is to use a corpus-based approach to investigate the number of words learners of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) need to meet the lexical demands ...
  • An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876 
    Kingsbury, Benjamin (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    The Bengal cyclone of 1876 was the worst cyclone disaster anywhere in the world in the nineteenth century. On the night of 31 October, around one million people in the south-eastern districts of Bakarganj, Noakhali, and ...
  • Intimate Trace: Investigating Traces of Sensory Occupation 
    Cunliffe, Keri Ann (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Within the past two decades architectural discourse has begun to address the sensory deprivation of our contemporary environments. Discourse identifies the primary role of vision in the design process and consequently ...
  • Coptic Ruins Reincarnated 
    Said, Vioula (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    For several decades Egypt has seen a vast number of its Coptic Orthodox Churches targeted, attacked and burned down due to a continuing conflict between various religious sects. This conflict has become more evident through ...
  • Taranaki as a Great Street : how can stream daylighting be used as an urban device in place-making? 
    Smink, Matthias (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    The historical procedure to contain and pipe streams that interrupted urban development was considered best practice in the management of stormwater systems. However, the inherent value of open waterways has been recognised ...
  • Switch house 
    Kingsbury, Adam (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Hurricane Sandy brought the 2013 hurricane season to a destructive and disastrous close on 31st of October, claiming 145 lives in its wake. Thousands were forced from their homes as the super-storm made its way through New ...
  • Reconstructing the Heterogeneous Assemblage 
    Zou, Helen (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This thesis begins from a richness sensed in Te Aro. Investigations of this richness discovered that the structure of Te Aro and the structure of Te Aro’s blocks were highly relevant to this richness. This richness involves ...
  • The Darwin machine 
    D'Ath, Henry (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This design led research aims to explore how architecture would respond if required to exist for five hundred years. Our current architectural methodologies tend to utilize a process that results in a paralyzed form, one ...
  • Wharf Dwellers 
    Dobinson, Tom (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Lyttelton is a port town connected to the world via the sea. The progressive expansion of the port zone has disrupted the connection between the town and the water’s edge, causing the occupants to experience a diminished ...
  • The Plight of Pātea: Tampering with the trajectory of a small town in decline 
    Edwards, Sophie (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    The infrastructure and regional economies of post-industrial New Zealand towns are becoming increasingly obsolete. Using the South Taranaki settlement of Pātea as a case-study town, the research aims to engage architecture ...

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