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The 10 Day Bach: A Net Zero Home

Jagersma, Ben (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Held every two years in Washington DC and run by the US Department of Energy the Solar Decathlon is a competition that challenges architecture and engineering students from all over the world to come up with new ...
Atmospheric Perceptions in the Making: An Exploration of the Implications of the Immateriality of Climate on Our Perception of Space and in Its Making

Benton, Delle (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

“[...] climate can replace typology, function, and form of what we use and define as architecture” (Rahm, 2008: accessed 11th March 2010, <http://www.philipperahm.com/3E.html> ). To what extent should we consider the ...
Celebrating Difference: Architectural Conflation within an Urban Fabric

Anderson, Casey (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

Celebrating Difference questions New Zealand’s current civic architecture, and the way we will design these environments in the future. This thesis explores various cultural literary precedents supported by two detailed ...
The Creation of a Birthing Centre: Considering the Prevention of Post-Natal Depression.

Mazurkiewicz, Tanya (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This thesis explores the notion of interior architecture as a tool in the prevention on of post natal depression. This research is part of a larger and current theoretical argument that places interior architecture in ...
The Digital Design Coach Enhancing Design Conversations in Architectural Education

Bailey, Rohan O'Neil (Victoria University of Wellington, 2005)

Changes in society, technology, and practice have created a significant demand for architectural graduates who can balance practical concerns with critical and abstract thinking. The current model of architectural education ...
Everything But the Building, Project Organisation, First Light House, Solar Decathlon, 2011

Officer, Nicholas David (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This thesis is a reflection on Victoria University and New Zealand’s entry into the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2011, First Light. Beginning with a proposal in November 2009, the project team would spend ...
Glance Vs. Gaze

Craig, Duncan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This research investigates the phenomenology of vision in response to the following question: What is a way of looking through architecture that can cultivate a positive connection with the landscape? Two modes of vision ...
Guidelines to Make Victoria University School of Architecture and Design Carbon Neutral Through Minimising its Reliance on Carbon Offsets

Ryu, Soo Jung (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Universities have always had an important leadership role in society in demonstrating the types of changes that need to occur with respect to the prime issues of the time. All around the world, universities are lining ...
Implementation of a Building Sustainability Rating Tool: a Survey of the New Zealand Building Industry

Smith, Jonathan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

Building Sustainability Rating Tools (BSRTs) are being developed worldwide with considerable success. As a result their implementation has created the awareness necessary to cement their role in creating positive change. ...
The Influence of Construction Materials on Life-Cycle Energy Use and Carbon Dioxide Emissions of Medium Size Commercial Buildings

Perez Fernandez, Nicolas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

This thesis studies the influence of construction materials on the life-cycle energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of medium sized low energy consumption commercial buildings. When describing buildings by ...
Inside the First Light House: Interior Design for New Zealand’s Entry into the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2011

Farrow, Anna (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This thesis documents a two year journey to design and build a most unconventional kiwi bach. It reports on the applied research undertaken in order to meet the specific requirements of a particular construction project: ...
Just a Phase? Assessment of the Potential for Phase Change Materials in New Zealand Buildings

Harland, Alice (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Phase change materials in buildings could save energy and cost by bridging the gap between when energy is available and when it is needed. This is because they are capable of storing and releasing large amounts of energy ...
The Kind of Problem a City Will Always Be: A Study of the Epistemological State of Urbanism and the Kind of Problem a City is

Kominami, Takeshi (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Jane Jacobs in her seminal work Death and Life of Great American Cities (1993) titled a chapter of her book, The Kind of Problem a City is, and in it, discussed how a city should be understood as a situation of a complex ...
Maximum Luminances and Luminance Ratios and their Impact on Users' Discomfort Glare Perception and Productivity in Daylit Offices: Testing the Hypothesis: Maximum Luminance and Ratio Recommendations For Visual Comfort Should be Specific to the Luminous Conditions and by Accounting For the Impact of Adaptation, the Recommendations Will be More Accurate.

Linney, Andrew Scott (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

Lighting is an important environmental factor when considering health and safety, visual comfort and workplace design. But how well do we really understand the implications of lighting on these factors, especially in a ...
Multifunctionality as a Strategy to Decrease Resource Use in Building Envelopes

Gerhardt, Clara H. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

The growing use of renewable and non-renewable resources by human society is increasingly seen as one of the root causes of the occurring imbalance in the global ecosystem. The effects are inter alia made responsible for ...
New Agoraphobia: Reclaiming Controllability in a Society of Total Surveillance

Tchernov, Aleksei Sergueevich (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Increasingly ubiquitous forms of surveillance networks and methods are becoming commonplace in today’s societies. While their application is rational and for the most part beneficial their presence effects the perception ...
Reinterpreting Chinese Cultural Imperatives Within the Contemporary Urban Context Through the Integration of Natural Elements

Zhang, Xuezhu (Cissy) (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

As Chinese contemporary architecture is entering into a new era along with rapid economic development, this is an opportunity for young Chinese designers to start to translate their own Chinese cultural perspectives into ...
Tangible Lighting Controls

Dugar, Amardeep Mohanlal (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

'Tangible lighting controls' is used as an umbrella term to describe lighting control systems that are easy to understand and pleasurable to use by end-users. The crucial question posed is, what is the nature of interface ...