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  • The next fifty years: Eco-cyborg Chandigarh 
    Bogunovich, Dushko (Chandigarh: Celebrating fifty years of the idea, 1999)
    There are good and bad things about Le Corbusier's plans and designs for Chandigarh. As we face the environmental and social uncertainties of the 21st century, it may be more productive to focus at the good things. The ...
  • Integration of design and technology 
    Austin, Mike (IVth International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia, 2007)
    Certification Boards visiting architecture schools regularly demand more ‘technology’ in the curriculum, and an increased ‘integration’ of design and technology in the teaching programme. The persistence of this over many ...
  • After the rot: Improving the durability of building envelopes in domestic housing, New Zealand 
    Murphy, Chris (Design, Technology, Refurbishment and Management of Buildings: 37th IAHS World Congress on Housing Science, 2010)
    The issue of weathertightness of the external building envelope in domestic scaled timber frames continues to be an issue in New Zealand, some ten years after the results of a major cladding survey into the durability and ...
  • Design process: Transfer and transformation 
    Wagner, Cesar; Archbold, Richard (ConnectED 2010 - 2nd International Conference on Design Education, 2010)
    This paper is drawn from research into the learning process provided by a design studio exercise where students are asked to design an extension for an iconic modernist building in Brazil. The design problem becomes an ...
  • “Fly on the wall” Can the presence of the student during the assessment process help in their learning? 
    Rennie, Julian (ConnectED 2010 - 2nd International Conference on Design Education, 2010)
    The Design studio learning system within most Tertiary Design Schools has a unique critique method, (often called “The Crit”). The Crit event itself is rather a “veiled” process and has been analyzed and written about ...
  • Compacting suburbia: The case for moving buildings 
    Turner, David (On the border: Architectural science in theory and practice, 2010)
    Processes of intensification lead to some unforeseen consequences. One such unplanned consequence is the rearrangement of existing buildings in new or revised spatial patterns. In pursuit of higher densities, large lot ...
  • Cost effective quality: next generation building controls? 
    Murphy, Chris (On the border: Architectural science in theory and practice, 2010)
    In 2004 the New Zealand Government reviewed the New Zealand Building Act. The review was prompted by increasing concern at the lack of weather tightness evident in buildings constructed since the initial performance based ...
  • Sustainable timber potential for Northland, New Zealand 
    Newman, Neil; Francis, Kerry (On the border: Architectural science in theory and practice, 2010)
    This paper explores the feasibility and potential use of locally grown timber alternatives to chemically treated Pinus radiata for domestic construction in the Northland region. Current and potential locally grown alternative ...
  • Experiments on common grounds: Four Auckland houses by Richard Hobin (1949-1953) 
    Francis, Kerry; Smith, Gregory (On the border: Architectural science in theory and practice, 2010)
    In Auckland in the 1950s a group of architecture students and young graduates were exploring innovative techniques of small scale construction. While these explorations can be seen in the context of a broader, global ...
  • Showcasing green urbanism on waterfronts: A comparative study of Porto Alegre and Auckland 
    Bogunovich, Dushko; Wagner, Cesar (54th International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) World Congress 2010, 2010)
    Porto Alegre and Auckland - being port cities on river estuaries, comparable in size and age, and sharing a number of morphological analogies - are similar enough to enable and justify a comparative analysis and evaluation ...
  • Wasted opportunities: Developing resiliency in architecture through ecosystem biomimicry 
    Balle, Brad; McConchie, Graeme (On the border: Architectural science in theory and practice, 2010)
    Surplus buildings are frequently demolished and replaced under the assumption that it is cheaper to replace than adapt. The demolished building becomes waste material, usually ending up in landfills. Yet in nature discarded ...
  • The integration of seismic resistant design & construction into the Diploma of Associate Engineering DAE (Civil) curriculum in Pakistan 
    Potangaroa, Regan; Chhetri, Vickram; Timarzi, Irshad (Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference, 2010)
    The 8th October 2005 Kashmir Earthquake exposed the vulnerability of Pakistan’s building stock with the collapse of both public and private buildings. Whilst appropriate building codes are now being developed and introduced, ...
  • Structural quality control in the field 
    Potangaroa, Regan; Chang, Yan; Zuo, Kelvin; Wilkinson, Suzanne (Participatory Design and Appropriate Technology for Post-Disaster Reconstruction, 2010)
    The quality control of structural elements for post disaster reconstruction in the field is problematic. Test facilities are often remote, training can be inadequate and the attitude of suppliers and contractors can be ...
  • The spatial syntax of Iraqi refugee housing in Syria 
    Potangaroa, Regan; Chan, Tao (Participatory Design and Appropriate Technology for Post-Disaster Reconstruction, 2010)
    Space Syntax developed from the work of Benedikt in 1979 and then Hillier and Hanson in 1984. Benedikt created visual maps within building plans by drawing the contours of equal visual areas calling the resulting map an ...
  • Spatial syntax analysis of tent layouts 
    Potangaroa, Regan; Chan, Tao (Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, 2010)
    Spatial Syntax is a set of concepts and techniques for the analysis of spatial configurations that were originally developed by Hillier and Hanson in the late 1980’s (Space Syntax, 2009). They were intended to be a tool ...
  • Planning for social outcomes 
    Potangaroa, Regan; Mair, Julie Samia (Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, 2010)
    There is usually no purposeful connection between the physical planning of refugee camps and the social outcomes for those living in these camps with each being treated separately by independent groups or more often the ...
  • Earthquake vulnerability of wastewater pumping stations in New Zealand 
    Zare, Mohammad R.; Wilkinson, Suzanne; Potangaroa, Regan (Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, 2010)
    New Zealand is located in an earthquake prone part of the world where earthquakes are the most common natural hazard in New Zealand. Consequently, earthquake vulnerability especially in lifelines is of great concern of ...
  • Destabilising the studio - teaching architectural design in China 
    van Raat, Tony (ConnectED 2010 - 2nd International Conference on Design Education, 2010)
    Cooperative ventures in international education frequently involve transitioning students from one learning paradigm to another. This is particularly the case in joint programmes in architecture where lateral thinking and ...
  • The cluster approach revisited 
    Kestle, Linda; Potangaroa, Regan (18th CIB World Building Congress, 2010)
    The UN Cluster approach came from the Humanitarian Response Review (HRR) commissioned by the UN in 2005. The intention of that review was to address apparent failures in the speed, quality and effectiveness of humanitarian ...
  • The otla: A ‘free space’ in Balkrishna Doshi’s Aranya settlement 
    Kaza, Krystina (Vernacular Futures: Reconstruction, Resettlement and Reproduction of Tradition, 2010)