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Generation Architecture: An Investigation Into the Role of Architecture within Heavy Industrial Infrastructure

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dc.contributor.advisor Brand, Dianne
dc.contributor.author Treacy, Shea Michael
dc.date.accessioned 2013-05-14T23:29:20Z
dc.date.accessioned 2022-11-02T20:12:27Z
dc.date.available 2013-05-14T23:29:20Z
dc.date.available 2022-11-02T20:12:27Z
dc.date.copyright 2012
dc.date.issued 2012
dc.identifier.uri https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/28962
dc.description.abstract This project will investigate the role of architecture within heavy industrial field. This has become dormant due to the current technical and fiscal demands that are predominant influences of industrial infrastructure design today. The unprecedented scale, in which these projects operate, both physically and socially, demands a design influence, which exists beyond the conventional pragmatic drivers used in their production. The understanding of the scale at which these projects have grown, and subsequently effected our environment is much larger than we have previously engaged with. They now include environmental and social effects, which are often ignored or ineffectively accommodated for. This thesis will identify an application of architecture in which the architect provides a socio-cultural voice for the contemporary workforce associated with these projects. The existing typologies, with respect to construction workforces, found within infrastructure projects, have become inherently mobile and temporary. Through the use of subjective historical analysis and interpretation of New Zealand’s Hydroelectric history, an architecture designed for the ‘new nomadic’ workforce will be developed. This will be accomplished through the development of historical technologies and solutions, which could be furthered in an effort to more adequately provide for contemporary requirements. The resulting architecture will be one that acknowledges the scale in which infrastructure development affects us as a society and responds to the needs of a mobile workforce. en_NZ
dc.format pdf en_NZ
dc.language en_NZ
dc.language.iso en_NZ
dc.publisher Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington en_NZ
dc.rights Access is restricted to staff and students only. For information please contact the library. en_NZ
dc.subject Architecture en_NZ
dc.subject Power stations en_NZ
dc.subject Transient en_NZ
dc.title Generation Architecture: An Investigation Into the Role of Architecture within Heavy Industrial Infrastructure en_NZ
dc.type Text en_NZ
vuwschema.contributor.unit School of Architecture en_NZ
vuwschema.subject.marsden 310101 Architecture en_NZ
vuwschema.type.vuw Awarded Research Masters Thesis en_NZ
thesis.degree.discipline Architecture en_NZ
thesis.degree.grantor Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington en_NZ
thesis.degree.level Masters en_NZ
thesis.degree.name Master of Architecture (Professional) en_NZ


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