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Waiora Healing Home : creating better quality of life for children with life-limiting and terminal illnesses in N.Z.
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can architecture make a positive contribution to palliative and hospice care for children in order to enhance their quality of life? ABSTRACT: What does wellbeing and dying well mean? Hospitals ... -
Wairaka Stream Daylighting Project
(Water New Zealand, 2014)Coinciding with the Unitec environmental sustainability strategy daylighting of the Wairaka stream is at the heart of creating positive environmental change on campus. Currently part of the stream flows through a 70m culvert ... -
The Waitakere Pacific community and tertiary education institute relationships
(2008)This research examined the relationship between a Tertiary Education Institution (TEI) other Tertiary Education providers and the Pacific community in Waitakere City, West Auckland. The research identified issues that have ... -
Waitemata green : changing the public acceptance of sustainability
(2016)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can the public acceptance of sustainability be changed through using principles of hedonistic sustainability in establishing a hybrid urban farm as a dynamic public destination for Auckland? AB ... -
Waking a “Sleep City”: developing an urban complex in a commuter town in Beijing
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can a town with a lack of functions and limited space be reformed? ABSTRACT: With the rapid development of Beijing’s economy, more and more people have been attracted to the city in the past two ... -
Walking the talk in social work education.
(Sydney University Press?, 2013)This chapter focuses on the benefits and challenges of utilising social work values and principles when teaching, researching, evaluating and improving social work education. These values and principles are explored through ... -
The wall, the joint, the window, stair and door
(2013)Through the investigation Carlo Scarpa’s architecture, four design techniques have been chosen; these techniques explain the reasoning behind Scarpa’s decision making. The four techniques will be the influence in discovering ... -
Walter Klasz : Inbetween
(Unitec ePress, 2017-03-03)In 2016, Austrian architect and designer Walter Klasz visited Auckland as a Researcher in Residence, hosted by Unitec. Walter’s work focuses on the potential of ‘self-forming-structures’ – constructions that emerge from ... -
Wang Guangqi 王光祈: the man who introduced the Berlin School of Comparative Musicology to China
(2017-03)Wang Guangqi 王光祈 (1892-1936) was a man of many achievements. A student of international law, he had already achived national prominence as an influential social activist, a charismatic youth leader, an acute journalist, ... -
Waste a resource for communities
(2014)Waiheke County recycling Compulsory amalgamation to ACC End of recycling Beginning of resistance The Wananga on waste -
Waste not, want not : education for sustainability in the construction industry
(2014-09)Not teaching but transforming – an educational process which is easy to espouse but frequently hard to achieve in practice. This case study, set in the building technology environment of a tertiary institution, shows ... -
Waste to worth : adaptive re-use of recycled waste in existing structures
(2013)For architects material selection is one of the most crucial choices faced when designing. They clothe their creations, offering protection and shelter, ultimately setting the tone and appearance of a building. Generic ... -
Wasted opportunities: Developing resiliency in architecture through ecosystem biomimicry
(Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association, 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 ... -
Wasted opportunities: Developing resiliency in architecture through ecosystem biomimicry
(2010)As architects we conceive of our buildings as finished products, our labours forever immortalised in them. But buildings are never finished; they are subject to multiple changes in occupation, repair and replacement as a ... -
Wastewater for resilient 21st century cities
(2015)Retrofitting cities with decentralised wastewater infrastructure. Combined waste and storm water infrastructure causes water pollution in urban streams. The project explores how to retool the existing 19th century ... -
Water and food safety testing products for New Zealand mollusc aquaculture organisations: A case study in new product development
(2004)Current research indicates that customer-product interaction in the new product development life cycle strongly influences the success of a product in the marketplace. B2P Limited is a New Zealand biotechnology start-up ... -
Water reigns : an urban storm water treatment facility for Auckland City that educates the public about the issues surrounding the supply of clean water
(2016)The need to employ sustainable water management practices is becoming increasingly crucial as the global water shortages increase. As more people migrate to urban areas the challenges facing a city’s ability to protect its ... -
Water restoration drones : applied research to date
(2017-11-27)This Drone has been designed for real-time water testing. Traditional/current methods of water testing rely on fixed point sensors or samples taken from hand, but do not allow scientists to fully survey the changing water ... -
Water wharf : rediscovering the natural processes that support urban life
(2012)There is an urgency to find intelligent solutions for supplanting and diversifying water treatment to stop polluted water reaching our oceans. In New Zealand, soil run-off is the largest threat to our marine ecosystem and ... -
Water you know? : an architectural research project exploring how cultural and spiritual values attached to water can be used to bring attention to water management. The water scarcity situation in the rural Thai village, Ban Thang Khwang, is the test case
(2015)This research focuses on bringing attention to the importance of water and its management to my village, Ban Thang Khwang, in northeast Thailand. On a trip home in 2014 I noticed a huge contrast between the poor condition ...
