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Diverse morphology : a study of Chancery Square
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)The design of the urban environment is a challenging and complex exercise. The way people experience and use public open spaces is a valuable source of information for planning our cities. Indeed, understanding how these ... -
The eternal present of the mythical event : re-establishing place identity with speculative installations that reawaken heritage stories
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)This paper proposes that speculative architectural installations strategically ‘curated’ into neglected architectural contexts can help to engender an ‘immediate and a timeless realm,’ an encapsulation of a cultural story ... -
Anti-social distancing : revisiting Auckland’s Unitary Plan
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)Planning systems in Auckland have been revised over a decade of complex realignments that followed the amalgamation of the region’s seven cities into a single planning administration. The city’s Unitary Plan, which came ... -
An untraditional perspective of tradition : the lessons of Gummer and Ford in architectural education and designing for New Zealand. A Unitec research project.
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)Tūāpapa Rangahau, the Research and Enterprise Office at Unitec Institute of Technology, focuses on opportunities, challenges and problems in a wide variety of subjects. In 2020, the authors proposed a research project ... -
The hand of the engraver
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)The manner in which we dwell leaves scars upon the landscape that are often left behind long after occupancy ceases. Many derelict landscapes across New Zealand have scars too advanced for remediation. This designled ... -
If you copy, you will be caught and a mess will remain : the role of formal precedent in Design Studio
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)It has been eight years, or nearly two generations of students, since the last classical studio was run at Unitec. In the six-week vertical studio, the students got a valuable addendum to their regular design studio ... -
Architecture as a tool for inclusion and community building : Women in Fabrication at Zayed College for Girls
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)Women in Fabrication is a collaborative platform that empowers female high-school students, architecture students and young architects through design and construction. The project partnered with Zayed College for Girls to ... -
EDFAB : design and building of a plywood research house
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)INTRODUCTION: EDFAB: Eco-digital Fabrication Research Project was a collaboration between researchers and students from the University of Auckland’s and Unitec Institute of Technology’s Schools of Architecture. The ... -
My history is not mine : a speculative allegorical approach to experiential architecture
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)This design-led research investigation focuses on architecture as a representation of cultural loss. Globalisation has spread Eurocentric modernist architectural principles across most cultures. In a very real sense, many ... -
Psalm
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)INTRODUCTION Psalm was the title of an exhibition in 2019, of sculptures by Bronwynne Cornish and paintings by Hamish Foote. Both artists reference the native biota of Aotearoa New Zealand, and aim to draw attention to ... -
Onehunga waterfront and climate adaptation : a Unitec Landscape/Architecture studio
(2021-03-18)This paper discusses the potential of a landscape/architecture student joint studio to develop design strategies for a waterfront development that adapts to the environmental challenges of climate change. The authors ... -
Application of spectroscopy in additive manufacturing
(MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2021-01-04)Additive manufacturing (AM) is a rapidly expanding material production technique that brings new opportunities in various fields as it enables fast and low-cost prototyping as well as easy customisation. However, it is ... -
Nature’s prescription : making room for green spaces in highly dense cities to combat urban stress
(2021)Continuous urban growth and sprawling city development in the outskirts of Metro Manila means less and less areas to develop and thus the city is left with few open green spaces. Despite of being the nation’s major center ... -
Being (back) there : travel sketches that evoke a previous temporality
(AP2 Open Access Journals, 2020-12-30)During the recent Covid-19 lockdown I stumbled upon an sketchbook of my first trip overseas to the USA (in 1986). More particularly my month long stay in Manhattan, (where one didn’t need a car to get around). Within this ... -
Interview with Joan Lardner-Rivlin
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Community development in a fractured future
(Unitec ePress, 2020-12-17)This article explores the implications for community development in a near-term future context of some degree of ecological and societal collapse. The extreme likelihood of near-term future collapse is well known to most ... -
Pūrākau : our world is made of stories
(Unitec ePress, 2020-12-17)Ua ta‘u mai e Pālagi i a i tatou, o le lalolagi e faū i atoma [atoms], ae tatou Sāmoa e lē valelea-matou [tagata-Sāmoa] e te iloa o le lalolagi e tele tala. The white man has told us that the world is made of atoms, but ... -
Research report : youth volunteering in Auckland, 2019
(Unitec ePress, 2020-12-17)PREFACE: This research was sponsored by Volunteering Auckland (VA). It is part of their wider research into volunteering by young people (13 to 18 years). Previous work carried out by VA showed that at the age of 18 years ... -
First-year student achievement, attendance, and demography at NorthTec’s Bachelor of Applied Social Work Programme : a quantitative inquiry
(Unitec ePress, 2020-12-17)This paper reports on a quantitative inquiry into student achievement, attendance and demography and their correlations in the first year of an undergraduate social work degree at NorthTec, Whangārei, New Zealand. Data on ...