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About Architecture Against Architecture

dc.contributor.advisorKebbell, Sam
dc.contributor.advisorBryant, Martin
dc.contributor.authorStaples, Devo Phillip Robert
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-25T01:19:23Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-03T19:57:43Z
dc.date.available2016-11-25T01:19:23Z
dc.date.available2022-11-03T19:57:43Z
dc.date.copyright2016
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.updated2016-11-01T09:03:29Z
dc.description.abstractThe Kāpiti Coast is a retreat from the city, and it presents an opportunity to be a nursery of creative culture liberated from the political and economic pressures of a bigger economy. Creative, young, ambitious people of Kāpiti Coast tend to leave for bigger economies. However, similar people often leave cities too. Rather than associating creativity with the bigger economy of Wellington City, this thesis considers creativity from where many of these people come from – its hinterlands and margins. This thesis proposes a creativity school, providing an example of the type of facility that might give creative, young, ambitious people a reason to stay in the Kāpiti Coast. In March 2015, Our Lady of Kāpiti Parish announced that they are moving from their existing site on the margins of Paraparaumu to a new site, adjacent to the Kāpiti Expressway (under-construction). The existing site includes Paraparaumu Parish and St. Patrick’s Primary School, and occupies the same street block as Paraparaumu Primary School and Paraparaumu Playcentre. Like much of the Kāpiti Coast, this existing fabric is dull and uninspiring; far from the diversity and vibrancy of Wellington’s creative precinct, Cuba Street. This thesis aims to investigate architectural forms of expression, as alternatives to the urban sprawl and uninspiring existing fabric of Kāpiti Coast. These alternatives are explored through design-led research, presenting two answers (the initial design experiments and the design) to two issues (Context and Form): -The initial design experiments present a series of modest interventions that are comparable to the kind of approach a graffiti artist might take to the existing fabric. -The subsequent experiments (and the design) present a controlled and formally resolved building on the adjacent hillside. By critically reflecting on both, the two series of design experiments form part of a broader disciplinary discussion on the implications of being about architecture and being against architecture.en_NZ
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dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/30007
dc.languageen_NZ
dc.language.isoen_NZ
dc.publisherTe Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellingtonen_NZ
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dc.rights.licenseAuthor Retains All Rightsen_NZ
dc.subjectArchitectureen_NZ
dc.subjectCreativityen_NZ
dc.subjectKapitimi_NZ
dc.titleAbout Architecture Against Architectureen_NZ
dc.typeTexten_NZ
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitectureen_NZ
thesis.degree.grantorTe Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellingtonen_NZ
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_NZ
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architecture (Professional)en_NZ
vuwschema.contributor.unitSchool of Architectureen_NZ
vuwschema.subject.anzsrcfor120101 Architectural Designen_NZ
vuwschema.subject.anzsrctoa1 PURE BASIC RESEARCHen_NZ
vuwschema.type.vuwAwarded Research Masters Thesisen_NZ

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