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Made in Bangladesh : housing for garment workers in Chittagong, Bangladesh
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: Can designing housing for garment factory workers in Bangladesh, improve their quality of life? ABSTRACT: Manufacturing of textiles and garments is the most significant industry in Bangladesh. The ... -
Exploring frameworks for a history of earth building in Aotearoa New Zealand
(International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) c/o Leibniz University Hannover, 2020-09)Aotearoa New Zealand has a unique earth building heritage. For centuries, Māori used earth for floors and as a binder for fibrous walling materials. When settlers arrived in the nineteenth century, they brought earth ... -
Future of the past : the place of adaptive reuse in revitalizing a historic church
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can adaptive reuse be applied to a historic church in Auckland CBD to protect the cultural and historical values of the building and improve community interaction? ABSTRACT: The importance of ... -
He kāinga rua : a home away from home
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can Māori students be better supported through purpose-built housing? SUB-QUESTIONS: How has colonisation impacted Māori education outcomes? What are the barriers and challenges Māori students ... -
Being different as a personality and being design unique requires respect, bravery, and patience vs What learnings from the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team can be gleaned by tertiary Architectural Students in teambuilding and dealing with differences
(The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), 2020-02)The Festival of Transitional Architecture (FESTA) is a voluntary organisation that came into being after the devastating Christchurch earthquakes between September 2010 and February 2011 (the latter claiming the lives of ... -
The folly of suburban electrical boxes : re-assessing the suburban footpaths under Covid-19 lock-down L4 (25 March-27 April 2020) Auckland, New Zealand
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Uncharted architectural theory of critical regionalism in the work of Aleksandar Deroko between the world wars
(University of Birmingham, England, 2020-06)The paper comprises four parts. Drawing from the definition of critical regionalism presented by Tzonis and Lefaivre in their analysis of Mumford’s work, the first part focuses on Deroko’s interwar writing about architecture. ... -
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(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How might Architecture help address the poor mental health of many students in India by looking to the historical tradition of an Ashram as a holistic space of self-reflection and healing? ABSTRA ... -
Kāinga Manaaki : how can the Manaaki Tāngata Programme inspire marae based kāinga, to support vulnerable whānau in the pursuit of mana motuhake?
(2020)This project aims to explore marae-based housing solutions in Auckland for vulnerable whānau as they seek to pursue mana motuhake. Successive Government policies, which have led to the alienation of Māori from ancestral ... -
DISCONNECT to RECONNECT : architectural interruption for individuals addicted to digital activity as opposed to living in the physical world, the here and now
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can architecture facilitate opportunities for rehabilitation of young individuals in New Zealand addicted to digital activity to the extent that it precludes them from living in the physical world, ... -
An artisan village, Surat, India : safeguarding the art & craft heritage of India
(Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), 2019-11)This paper aims to strategise a comprehensive design, establishing a link between urban and rural sectors through preservation and revitalisation of the craft sector of India. The intent is to unite the various typologies ... -
FROM EDGE TO CORE : Realigning sustainability in architectural education
(Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), Australia, 2019-12)Climate change and the built environment’s ecological impact necessitate that we embed sustainability in architectural education. However, this often takes the form of an addition (satellite) to the prevailing core programme. ... -
Counting straw : the capacity of New Zealand's grain growing sector to supply straw for construction
(Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), Australia, 2019-12)The New Zealand Government has made a commitment to build 100,000 new dwellings over the next 10 years under its Kiwibuild programme. It has also made a commitment, under the Paris Accord, to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) ... -
New Zealand's unreinforced masonry buildings : facing up to the earthquake.
(IOP Publishing, 2020-01-01)The damage caused by the 2011 Christchurch earthquake has led to the introduction of compulsory seismic strengthening legislation for all unreinforced earthquake-prone masonry buildings (URM) within New Zealand. The ... -
Back to earth : earth building in Aotearoa New Zealand 1945-65
(University of Sydney for Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), 2019-11-10)Earth was once widely used as a building material in Aotearoa New Zealand; it was an integral part of the vernacular architecture. Māori used earth in various ways and nineteenth century European settlers brought earthen ... -
Defining the methodology of integrated research in the process of digital documentation of architectural heritage: case study Lizori, Italy
(University of L'Aquila, Italy, 2019-12)The aim of this paper is to define the methodology of integrated research in the process of digital documentation of architectural heritage. The thematic framework of this work was stimulated by participation in a professional ... -
Urban resolutions : Auckland and Vancouver comparisons
(2020-02-20)The topic of Urban Resolutions is a research piece on Auckland’s urban plan, with the inclusion of heritage builds for reuse or repurpose. An international comparative analysis with Vancouver’s EcoDensity initiative was ... -
Evaluating the application of Māori design principles to urban neighbourhood development projects to develop a Kaupapa Māori design framework and assessment tools
(Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities (BBHTC), 2018)AIMS/PURPOSE: This paper discusses and evaluates the application of Te Aranga and other kaupapa Māori design principles (principles derived from a Māori worldview and incorporating Māori knowledge and values) to urban ... -
Vertical schools ready for take off?
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: As Auckland city gets dense, are vertical schools a more viable option? ABSTRACT: This research project concerns the investigation into and design of a ‘vertical school’ in Auckland. As a relatively ... -
Daylight, death, & ritual Prometheus : the use of light and shadow as a fundamental building material and its evocations on the built environment
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can daylight strategies be implemented into design driven by phenomenology to explore the development of an atmospheric architecture? ABSTRACT: Death is the singular constant to life and is the ...
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