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  • 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 ...
  • Architecture for humanity: Shipping containers as Swiss Army knife 
    Lee, Ja Yeun; Potangaroa, Regan (Participatory Design and Appropriate Technology for Post-Disaster Reconstruction, 2010)
    Surplus commercial shipping containers have re-gained popularity among developed countries recently and are often associated with fashionable, prefabricated second-homes, hotels, and even cities. However, when applied in ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • “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 ...
  • Gimme shelter: Tsunami mitigation as part of a permanent shelter programme for Aceh, north Sumatra 
    Potangaroa, Regan (3rd International i-Rec International Conference 'Post-disaster reconstruction: meeting stakeholder interests', 2006)
    The resulting housing solutions developed for permanent shelter as part of aid packages and reconstruction often belie the complexity of their resolution. This paper briefly outlines the often hidden subtleties in such ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • Measuring the qualitative aspects of a reconstruction programme: Aceh, Indonesia 
    Potangaroa, Regan (3rd International i-Rec International Conference 'Post-disaster reconstruction: meeting stakeholder interests', 2006)
    Aid Agencies are accountable for the funds that they administer and consequently there is a reporting requirement to demonstrate that any intervention (such as a permanent housing program) is beneficial to those that the ...
  • 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 ...
  • The otla: A ‘free space’ in Balkrishna Doshi’s Aranya settlement 
    Kaza, Krystina (Vernacular Futures: Reconstruction, Resettlement and Reproduction of Tradition, 2010)
  • 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 ...
  • Post-disaster recovery: Multi-agency leadership and co-ordination 
    Beckett, James V.; Wilkinson, Suzanne; Potangaroa, Regan (Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, 2010)
    Recovery is a vital phase in an emergency management and civil defence cycle aimed towards long-term community resilience. Leadership plays a crucial role in an emergency situation, especially in the response and recovery ...
  • Resources and capacity: Lessons learned from post-disaster reconstruction resourcing in Indonesia, China and Australia 
    Chang, Yan; Wilkinson, Suzanne; Potangaroa, Regan; Seville, Erica (Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference, 2010)
    Post-disaster reconstruction poses resourcing challenges specific to the construction practitioners and requires constant improvements of the construction industry and of the environment in which it operates. By drawing ...
  • 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 ...