RestrictedArchive–Te Puna Rangahau: Recent submissions

  • The miniature sublime 
    Kersten, Jayne (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This thesis explores the miniature sublime through shifting scales. The sublime is traditionally associated with an experience which induces a sense of awe, supported by the alternating effects of pain and pleasure. In ...
  • The Pedestrian's Office Building 
    Redwood, Zoe (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    According to urban theorist Jan Gehl (2004), Wellington’s central business district (CBD) lacks pedestrian vibrancy. Gehl identifies impermeability, caused by many large footprint commercial buildings with closed street ...
  • Tsunami Responsive Architecture - Reducing Vulnerability Along the North-Western Coast of Malaysia 
    Nordin, Jestin (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    On 26 December 2004, a Magnitude 9.0 underwater earthquake at the northern tip of the Northern Sumatra Island, Indonesia caused what is known as the Boxing Day Tsunami, claiming 75 lives in Malaysia, with many more people ...
  • Effects of Results-Based Financing on Patient Satisfaction in Afghanistan 
    Tawfiq, M. Essa (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    A Results-Based Financing (RBF) program has been implemented in Afghanistan since September 2010 to improve the quality of health care and increase the utilization of maternal and child health services. This PhD study ...
  • Dwelling Narrow: Affordable Home Ownership in the City 
    Pennington, Angela Ruth (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Over the past few decades, the rising cost of home ownership in New Zealand has led to the crushing of our quarter acre kiwi dream, and New Zealand’s housing stock has been filled with large numbers of damp, cold, leaky ...
  • Confronting the Past in Contemporary Spain and Germany 
    Hepworth, Andrea (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)
    This comparative research project will focus on current debates in Spain and Germany about how to deal with their respective highly controversial twentieth-century history, based on case studies of the memory sites of ...
  • Atmosphere of Place: a Body of Work 
    Douglas, Grant (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Referencing contemporary research in ‘atmosphere and place’, this thesis pursues a process of design-led-research, culminating in the production of three site specific architectural interventions. Each of these design ...
  • The Reconfigured House[s] 
    Cowper, Anna (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    New Zealand society and developers require a more desirable detached-housing alternative to those currently provided by house-building companies. House-building companies’ houses are largely prominent within the New Zealand ...
  • From Rural Vastness to Urban Intimacy 
    Howey, Melissa (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    To define a winery, simply as a facility of winemaking, disregards the industry’s most recent and significant developments. Around the world, wine producers have recognised the business potential of wineries as they develop ...
  • Spatial Multizone Soundfield Reproduction Design 
    Jin, Wenyu (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    It is desirable for people sharing a physical space to access different multimedia information streams simultaneously. For a good user experience, the interference of the different streams should be held to a minimum. This ...
  • Technical challenges of a lightweight, scalable, global paywall system 
    Anandaraj, Puneeth (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This thesis presents the technical challenges that were faced while building a lightweight, scalable, global news paywall system. It also presents the common events while establishing a start-up company and also its unique ...
  • Essays in law and economics 
    Winkler, Kay Eric (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    The thesis consists of four chapters concerning different topics of Law and Economics. The first chapter deals with economic issues in competition law. In order to distinguish predatory pricing from competition on the ...
  • Shaping Taste 
    Mangin, Lucy (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Today more so than ever before, people are willing to invest in experiences involving food. The gastronomic landscape is constantly evolving however the evolution of utensils or cutlery has seemingly become stagnant. Both ...
  • A supercharged park: Exploring architecture as a means to actively engage infrastructure, creating a socially and culturally exhilarating piece of construction 
    Stuart, Belinda Jessie Kingsford (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Post World War II surface car parking lots constituted the most salient feature of the modern landscape. Approaching the 21st century there has been a conscious effort to lessen their effect on cities, relocating cars to ...
  • A taste of transience 
    Guieb, Kristel Chloe (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Increasingly, our complex cities are made up of more mobile and less location-dependant companies, inhabitants and visitors. This has led to unprecedented and unpredictable demands for novelty and variety. The impact of ...
  • The Forgotten Empire 
    Duthie, Marco Mbekezeli (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    A month prior to starting this thesis I was fortunate enough to be selected for a trip to Hampi as part of a summer field research study of traditional architecture in India. It was the most amazing eye opening experience ...
  • Guardians' awakening 
    Mwanza, Franklin (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    The abandonment of mines around the world with inadequate closure plans has left permanent scars on the landscapes they occupy. These once prevalent economic beasts are leaving behind toxic waste, scars and skeletons on ...
  • Maritime Strategy in a Changing World: U.S. Policy towards the South China Sea under the Obama Administration 
    Trinh, Thien Dinh (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    The South China Sea issue has long attracted the attention of the international community due to its strategic geopolitical location in the Asia-Pacific as well as the risk of conflicts between China and Southeast Asian ...
  • Topology of a Phantom City 
    Beattie, Hamish (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    As the global slum population swells to over one billion people, impoverished rural migrants moving to urban centres are increasingly turning to landfills and garbage dumps as their habitat and source of livelihood. These ...
  • Inflated Response 
    Hunter, Ethan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This thesis asserts the need for a form-changing architecture that encompasses the day-to-day requirements of Wellington’s citizens, while also having the ability to adapt its form and function in the event of a major ...

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