RestrictedArchive–Te Puna Rangahau: Recent submissions

  • Dissipated Barriers: Developing an integrated transitional landscape between classroom and playground in New Zealand primary schools 
    Mourie, Nathan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    The spatial qualities of learning environments are as important as the lessons taught within those environments. The spaces between the classrooms are as important as the design of the buildings themselves. These are the ...
  • The Machine as a Performer 
    Ozorák, Szilárd (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    The potential of reusing outmoded audio/visual (A/V) technological objects in a new, creative and artistic context was the core idea of this research. My main goal was to demonstrate that as designers and artists we can ...
  • Re Christchurch Cathedral: an investigation towards a new Christchurch Cathedral 
    Kilkenny-Brown, Edward (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    On the 2nd of March 2012 it was announced that the Anglican Christchurch Cathedral was to be demolished due to severe earthquake damage. The Christchurch Cathedral has stood at the centre of Christchurch City for over 130 ...
  • Ownership and Immutability in Coq 
    Mackay, Julian (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    A significant issue in modern programming languages is unsafe aliasing. Modern type systems have attempted to address this in two prominent ways; immutability and ownership, and often a combination of the two [4][17]. The ...
  • Expressing the Unseen: Representing Māori heritage in Wellington 
    Mellor, Ben (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    The New Zealand Company purchase of Māori land in 1839 and the subsequent settlement of Wellington saw a radical change in the landscape. Parallel to the alienation of Māori land was the removal of landscape features such ...
  • Interlude: Performative Architecture in the Transitional City 
    Prest, Clayton Stewart (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Two years of earthquakes and man-made disasters have left Christchurch divided, conflicted and uncertain. With over eighty percent of the central city cited for demolition there is a radical shift in civic identity and a ...
  • Layered Flow: Transnational Adaptations of 'High-End' Television Drama 
    Khan, Adnan Anwar (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    This thesis examines transnational adaptations of ‘high-end’ television dramas. In the context of this thesis, 'high-end' drama refers to weekly, hour-long, continuing, season-renewable series and serials with high budgets ...
  • A Primary Centre for the Community 
    Stephen, Krystal (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Schools have the potential to be the social and cultural centre for the community as they contain many of the facilities needed by their communities (such as a hall, swimming pool,gymnasium and library). The current ...
  • Translated Children's Fiction in New Zealand 
    Siebeck, Anne (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    In 2005, new publisher Gecko Press entered the New Zealand market specialising in English translations of children’s books. The notion of ‘homegrown translations’ was a new departure for a post-colonial book market dominated ...
  • Boat Building Architecture: A Living Museum 
    Worley, James (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    his research is grounded in understanding the significance of maritime architecture and the boat building history of New Zealand. The aim is to create an architecture that uses the built form to reflect a maritime identity. ...
  • Intimate Enclosures / Unbounded Territories: Crossing the Threshold of Interior and Exterior through an Investigation of Motility, Orientation and Perception 
    de Guzman, Josephine Anne (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    This thesis explores the dichotomous relationship between landscape and the built. An exchange of conflict and correspondence between the two entities is particularly apparent in the current cultural context of New Zealand. ...
  • Re-Designing 21st Century Offices: Encouraging Interaction within the Workplace 
    Browning, Annalise Kate (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Communication technologies are developing exponentially, studies have shown that this phenomenon negatively effects users in a social psychological manner. In his article, Tuan describes society as being in a state of ...
  • Epicurean Architecture and Gastronomy: Re(de)fining the flavour of architecture's gastronomic analogy 
    Dean, Joshua (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    It is widely accepted that many parallels exist between the fields of architecture and gastronomy. This observation has led to the development of the Gastronomic Analogy of architecture which now sits beside more commonly ...
  • Between Instability and Rejuvenation: Negotiating Strengthening and Heritage 
    Whitburn, Sam (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    The case for altering architecture, and particularly interiors, has been examined in Scott’s On Altering Architecture with the encouraging thought that function alone is not the determinant for destruction but that social ...
  • Does Inquiry-Based Learning Provide an Approach for Employing Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in a Primary School Classroom? 
    Benge, Andrea (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Inquiry-based learning could be viewed as a form of culturally relevant pedagogy as they both promote student success regardless of student culture. The aim of this research is to explore whether inquiry-based learning is ...
  • Conceptions of happiness across cultures 
    Joshanloo, Mohsen (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Research on the confluence of culture and happiness has grown dramatically in the past three decades. However, this line of research has mostly focused on levels and predictors of happiness, largely ignoring conceptualizations ...
  • An Architecture of Solas 
    Skogstad, Samuel Dane (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    The thesis investigates the place of the architecture of the individual coastal dwelling in mitigating the future effects of Solastalgia. Solastalgia is understood as the notion of place-based distress stemming from changes ...
  • Roger That: Looking to Roger Walker, Pedestrian Experience & the Future of the City 
    Tindall, Jake (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    In the centre of Wellington lies The Oaks. This early 1980’s shopping mall has suffered from incremental alterations affecting the use, function and connectedness of the site as a pedestrian space. Located at the junction ...
  • Cope & Marsh; &, Making the Past Present and Bringing the Famous Dead to Life: An Investigation into How Margaret Atwood and Peter Carey Engage with History 
    Ryan, Ronan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    The creative component of my PhD, Cope & Marsh, is a novel about the rivalry between two real-life nineteenth-century American paleontologists, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, who discovered 136 new dinosaur ...
  • Novel peptide natural products from the NZ thermophilic microorganism Thermogemmatispora strain T81 
    Aitken, Emma Jayne (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Genome mining of the newly described Thermogemmatispora strain T81, a thermophile from the Taupo Volcanic Zone, NZ, revealed the potential to produce novel ribosomally synthesised and post-translationally modified peptide ...

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