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Graduat ing Master ’ s Exhibi t ion of the Graduat ing Master ’ s Exhibi t ion of the
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This catalogue celebrates the completions
of Master’s degrees within the Wellington
School of Architecture during 2019. Our
School hosts one of the largest Master’s
programmes within the University with
an average of 100 Master’s graduates
completing each year, in a range of
programmes and discipline specialisations
that cover different aspects of the built
environment.
Our Master’s programmes present for many
of our graduates a point of entry into their
respective professions and demonstrate
a culmination of their high level of
achievement in vocational professionalism.
This catalogue includes a summary of works
including the early completions of the 2019
start cohort and a self-selected group from
the 2018 start cohort.
In the evolving world of education in our
professions, this catalogue celebrates
the achievements associated with
the introduction of the new format of
examination of the Master’s Research
Portfolio in Architecture (Professional),
Interior Architecture and Landscape
Architecture. This has led to the first group
of 29 candidates completing their Master’s
in just over nine months of enrolment.
Master’s programmes in the Wellington
School of Architecture can be seen as a
complex intersection exploring the role of
design and research in developing high-
quality design visions and research outputs.
Our students work across a range of topics
and methodological approaches. Their
research findings are often presented at
national and international conferences
and published in peer-reviewed journals.
Several of our students have, again, won
national design awards this year. Many of
our alumni have become industry leaders in
their chosen field.
&Professor Andre Brown
Dr. Emina Kristina Petrovic
Head of School, Wellington School of Architecture
Postgraduate Programmes Director, Wellington School of Architecture
In the rapidly evolving word of today, our
graduates engage in a range of exciting
approaches to develop positive visions. They
contribute creatively to the development of
the built environment of the future. Broadly,
the works summarised here reflect the
three main research clusters within in the
Wellington School of Architecture:
• Creative & Critical: focus on design
research, representation and history
and theory;
• Sustainability & Wellbeing: research
about resilient and sustainable cities,
design for wellbeing and positive social
impact and design for indigenous
people and minorities;
• Performance & Technology: building
performance, construction technologies
and materials and computational
design, simulation methods and virtual
spaces.
We are extraordinarily proud to see the
high quality of the work produced by our
students at Master’s level. We are pleased
that through this document and associated
exhibition we are able to reflect this pride.
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Emilia BrownEmilia BrownResearch Stream: Indigenous Materials Domain (IMD)Supervisor: Derek Kawiti
Inter-transitional Architecture: New Spatial Models for Prisoner Reintegration in New Zealand
The aim of this research was to explore
the design of transitional housing for newly
released prisoners from the New Zealand
prison environment. This was achieved
through the development of an architecture
that provides a dynamic, vibrant, beautiful
and connective environment for those using
the space.
The research provides evidence that a family
and community based model for transitional
housing could be successful in New
Zealand. Released prisoners can improve
their personal view of themselves when they
are adequately supported by their family
and have a strong connection to their site,
culture and context. It is argued that released
prisoner’s positive sense of self may improve
their mental health and recidivism rates. The
research suggests that an ambient, healing
and calm atmosphere might be achieved
through material texture and tactility and
natural lighting in a family and cultural
based model.
The proposed design was aimed at a small
focus group of three released prisoners and
their family members. The design of the
walls aimed to visually connect the users to
the context of the building and to act as a
prompt to establish a relationship with their
cultural background.
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Bronté DavenportBronté Davenport
The Pedestrian Workplace: Affective Relationships on the Street
How can analysis of affective relationships
enable the public street as a pedestrian
workplace?
Every place has an affect; a sense about it,
a feeling. The street has a particular affect,
as encounters between the place and the
pedestrian continuously occur. In recent years,
there has been an increase of awareness
in urban design of public environments as
places of work. People are able to perform
working behaviours anywhere, at any time,
thanks to technology - even as they walk
down the street. In response to the new
mobility of the contemporary workplace, this
thesis explores affective relationships that
take place in the street - where the worker
takes on the role of pedestrian.
Previous research into this area has
discovered a dichotomy in opinions – as
our mobility increases, do we form stronger
bonds to places, or does this mobility rob
us of any place attachments? Do third
places catering to mobile working conditions
necessarily diminish social and recreational
life? The implications of this thesis will be
an exploration of affect within the context of
the street system, specifically when the street
is considered as a place where working
behaviours may occur alongside social and
recreational behaviours. This will further the
understanding of the connections people
have with places, and how this manifests in
daily life.
Research Stream: Contemporary WorkplaceSupervisor: Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
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Sarah EarwakerSarah EarwakerResearch Stream: Indigenous Materials Domain (IMD)Supervisor: Derek Kawiti & Regan Potangaroa
Constructing the Contemporary Soldier: Redesigning Burnham’s military barracks.
The traditional design of military barracks is
an identified issue throughout the world. Due
to neglect, age and original design, their
condition is causing soldiers to suffer both
mentally and physically. Michel Foucault
provides a theoretical perspective that
underlines the reason for the poor approach
to barracks design. He believes that it is to
control and survey occupants. This theory
has provided the theoretical overview for
this study, which aims to discover ways
in which barracks can be redesigned to
enhance a soldier’s well-being. However,
well-being isn’t the only factor that requires
consideration in the design of barracks.
Military order, systems and function is vital
towards the creation of a successful army.
These elements should not be disregarded in
the solution to an improved barracks design
for soldiers. These two aspects, military order
and well-being, generate a tension that tugs
design elements in opposing directions.
Design for military order is rigid, structured
and efficient. Whereas design for well-being
is soft, natural and has privacy. This thesis
develops a barracks design for permanent,
single soldiers that creates a harmony
between these opposing tensions.
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Kadin HegglunKadin Hegglun
Algorithmic Processes: Parameter Thinking in Landscape Architecture
This thesis interrogates the contentious
integration of digital technologies into the
field of landscape architecture. Identifying that
an application of computational technique is
largely unknown, the research delves into the
scripting of geometry relationships with the
use of the tool ‘Grasshopper’ in the context
of landscape architecture.
It is affirmed by academics such as Bradley
Cantrell and Caroline Westort that landscape
architecture needs more algorithmic
attention. Stressing the construction of
relationships between design-move and site
condition.
Parameter thinking infers a method of rule
setting and dedication to the settling of
boundaries in which the potentials of site
intervention has room to shift. Geometries,
points, curves and planes provide such
palette.
This thesis is to unfold the paradigm of
operating within such a toolset adopting
the use of Grasshopper almost exclusively
as a way of engaging with conceptual
development. Such an interface allows
this thesis to note the performance of an
algorithmic toolset and adopt an algorithmic
mind set.
Low logics
High logics
Principal
Site Elements
Research Stream: Ecologies Design LabSupervisor: Brennan Baxley & Hannah Hopewell
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Gabriella JoyceGabriella JoyceResearch Stream: Advanced Manufacturing & Prototyping for Design (AMPD)Supervisor: Antony Pelosi
Finding the Key: Designing timber connections for CLT panels
In a climate where standard methods
of construction are being challenged,
developments in engineered timbers are
allowing mass timber construction to be
explored as a sustainable alternative to
current building methods. Cross-laminated
timber (CLT) is at the forefront of this
evolution and, with the advancement in
computational design and digital fabrication
tools, there lies an opportunity to redefine
standard construction. This project creates
connections inspired by traditional Japanese
joinery that have been adapted to be used
for the panel construction of CLT structures.
Using a combination of digital modelling
and advance digital fabrication, the project
utilizes CLT offcuts as a primary connection
material. The system not only reduces waste
but also mitigates thermal bridging and
lowers the number of connection points
whilst increasing the ease of building
and fabrication. Connection systems are
designed and prototyped using a robotic
arm and are then evaluated within the
context of a building scale and considers
large-scale fabrication and on-site assembly
whilst continuing to focus on the reduction
of waste.
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Damien Kitto Damien Kitto Research Stream: Public Infrastructure and Urban HousingSupervisor: Emina Petrovic
Layers of old and new: the adaptive reuse of mid-20th century modern architecture
This research portfolio explores the role of
adaptive reuse to support the preservation of
mid-century modern architecture and facilitate
new needs. Technological transformations
of the 21st century have changed needs,
making certain building typologies obsolete.
Post offices are one impacted building
typology currently declining. The former
Naenae post office, in suburban Wellington
is used to explore the creative opportunities
presented by the adaptive reuse of such
structures. The layering of old and new can
create a dialogue in the architecture which
is arguably more innovate and regenerative
than any construction that disregards the
existing. In many cases, continuing use of
the old buildings is also a more sustainable
approach. The project also contributes to
the challenges and ongoing development
of conservation approaches to modern
heritage. In this project an adaptive reuse
framework specific to modern architecture
heritage is developed to build a strategy for
reuse. The framework was applied to the
Naenae post office to aid the design of the
buildings reuse. This project argues that the
dialogue between old and new elements
transforms vacant modern architecture to
living heritage ensuring continual use.
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Rebecca LockleyRebecca Lockley
Pockets of Peace: Multi-sensory environments for young adults on the autism spectrum.
Research Stream: Contextual ShiftsSupervisor: Philippe Campays
The transition between adolescence and
adulthood can be an emotionally and
physically challenging time for everyone.
This period of time is especially challenging
for those who are on the autism spectrum
and unfortunately there is little to no support
systems in place to help aid young adults on
the spectrum with this transition. Pockets of
Peace explores how interior architecture can
be used to help aid the well-being of young
adults on the autism spectrum by creating
a controllable and interactive multi-sensory
experience that aims to cater to the vast
diversity within autism.
The questions surrounding the design process
were how to design for the vast diversity
within autism, as well as how to improve the
well-being of the users by reducing anxiety
and stress without introducing negative
behaviours and reactions. The design was
tested in three different situations, in the
urban environment, within a program and
through mass production. The final outcome
of this project was a set of design guidelines
which will provide an important framework
for autism design as well as contribute to the
interior architecture discipline.
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Tessa LynchTessa Lynch
Spaces of Wellbeing
Research Stream: Urban Housing and Public InfrastructureSupervisor: Emina Petrovic
One in five New Zealanders experience
mental illness. Majority of lifelong mental
illnesses begin before the age of 25,
presenting a real problem for youth. Yet,
employing more counsellors, which is
necessary, is not the only way to contribute to
an urgent need for a new approach towards
supporting mental health and wellbeing.
This research advocates wellbeing as a
central focus in the design of our built
environments and explores the opportunity
for architecture to facilitate our student and
national wellbeing goals. The outcome is
a resource to guide the design of tertiary
spaces supportive of wellbeing. A conceptual
framework was developed alongside five
intervention points, which could have a
positive effect on the student wellbeing if
implemented as a system. One of the most
important goals of this work was to align
the research closely with user needs and
views, therefore research methods involved
including students views in more than one
phase of development.
New Zealand must shift the current model
of mental health care towards more holistic
understandings of health, which better
incorporates Maori health and wellbeing. As
a result, the conceptual framework presented
a multi-dimensional, interconnected
understanding of wellbeing through an
integrated framework exploring physical,
cultural, social, learning and spiritual
environments.
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2019 Eve Mclachalan
Research Stream: Ecologies Design LabSupervisor: Hannah Hopewell
Synergised Ecologies: How can Landscape architecture intervene in fragmented landscapes of infrastructure?
Critically investigates development patterns in transitional peri-urban landscapes through the lens of landscape design. Concerned with prevailing atomised land use, over-scaled infrastructures and resulting bereft social and non-human ecologies, the research pursues opportunities in the landscape for synergies between uses. Using a critical understanding of networked ecologies, the project aims to create landscapes that are more than the sum of their parts.
The research is sited in Taita Gorge, extending between the Silverstream and Pomare rail bridges and Western and Eastern Hutt Roads. This is a fragmented landscape, and an ideal
site to investigate such prevailing tendencies amidst flooding risk. The study site is impacted by tectonic compaction resulting in tension between installed infrastructural systems and compressed spatial land uses. Here moments of conflict, or disharmonies, can be identified. The research discovers these points within the landscape milieu as both evident and latent conditions of the peri-urban situation. Using the notion of networked ecologies, the project finds a way to use conflict in the design process towards greater spatial integration and opportunity for public engagement to accrue quality and value for all human and non-human participants.
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Eve McLachalanEve McLachalanResearch Stream: Ecologies Design LabSupervisor: Hannah Hopewell
Synergised Ecologies: How can landscape architecture intervene in fragmented landscapes of infrastructure?
Critically investigates development patterns
in transitional peri-urban landscapes through
the lens of landscape design. Concerned with
prevailing atomised land use, over-scaled
infrastructures and resulting bereft social and
non-human ecologies, the research pursues
opportunities in the landscape for synergies
between uses. Using a critical understanding
of networked ecologies, the project aims to
create landscapes that are more than the sum
of their parts.
The research is sited in Taita Gorge, extending
between the Silverstream and Pomare rail
bridges and Western and Eastern Hutt Roads.
This is a fragmented landscape, and an ideal
site to investigate such precailing tendencies
amidst flooding risk. The study site is impacted
by tectonic compaction resulting in tension
between installed infrastructural systems and
compressed spatial land uses. Here moments
of conflict, or disharmonies, can be identified.
The research discovers these points within the
landscape milieu as both evident and latent
conditions of the peri-urban situation. Using
the notion of networked ecologies, the project
finds a way to use conflict in the design
process towards greater spatial integration
and opportunity for public engagement to
accrue quality and value for all human and
non-human participants.
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Hayley MillerHayley Miller
A House for Trees:How can we design architecture to facilitate biodiversity?
Biodiversity loss is accelerating at a
devastating rate, primarily driven by
factors of climate change, loss of habitat,
urbanisation, invasive species and pollution.
Human activity is considered to be a major
contributor to this loss of biodiversity, humans
therefore must take on the responsibility
to mitigate any damages to our natural
environment.
Wellington is known to be a natural and
biophilic city, however this level of green-
space is minimal within the city centre. This
thesis proposes that nature within the urban
context is increased through architecture,
rather than the typical approach of
landscape.
This question has been investigated with
a design-led research methodology.
Three different phases of the design were
explored to understand how architecture
can facilitate biodiversity. Firstly, it explores
a concept design which only accommodates
biodiversity. Secondly, the design is explored
through the human experience, how one
would use the space and how humans
interact with the surrounding nature. Thirdly,
a development of the design concerning
critical feedback was undertaken to push
the boundaries of how we currently design
and connecting to surrounding sites through
interventions of green space. Resulting in
a residential, architectural design which
becomes a part of the needed increase of
green space.
Research Stream: Ecologies Lab Supervisor: Maibritt Pedersen Zari
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Abigail Morgan Abigail Morgan
Plastic Wetland: An Investigation into Provocative Landscape Design
With increasing global consumption, plastic
debris has become an overwhelming
concern for coastal and marine ecologies.
The accumulation of plastic materials in
local and isolated environments currently
constitutes a threat to global ecologies,
continuously impacting the health and
well-being of communities. As the size of
the plastic litter can span from microplastic
particles to mega litter, it is able to infiltrate
environments on multiple levels.
Landscape architecture has the potential to
bridge the gap between biology, conservation
and public urban spaces, in order to
highlight and increase public awareness of
this anthropological problem. This research
proposal identifies new ways of addressing
plastic pollution through encouraging public
interaction with plastic debris and countering
the ‘out of sight, out of mind’ mentality.
It is possible to create social and cultural
behavioural change towards the subject
matter of plastic pollution, by creating spatial
interaction and visually expressive design
moves through provocation. This research
considers not only the environmental
functions of the site, but how people orientate
themselves in an educational landscape,
and how their subconscious understanding
of plastic pollution can trigger conscious
thought.
Research Stream: Contextual Shifts Supervisor: Maria Rodgers and Bruno Marques
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Sarah MorrisSarah MorrisResearch Stream: Sustainable Construction and CraftSupervisor: Hans-Christian Wilhelm
Peri-Fusion: An integrated agriculture and densified housing model for New Zealand’s peri-urban zones.
Peri-Fusion housing is an integrated
densified housing and agricultural model,
that this thesis proposes as an alternative
to suburban sprawl in New Zealand’s peri-
urban zones. Peri-urban zones are areas of
unknown development surrounding New
Zealand’s towns and cities, where the urban
perimeter is invading further into agricultural
fertile land. Peri-Fusion design strategies
were established to test and develop a new
integrated housing model, aiming to achieve
attractive densified living, that is integrated
with preserved agricultural land. This
proposed housing development model aims
to achieve a housing model integrated into
an agricultural and horticultural resource
cycle. In order to measure the success of Peri-
Fusion tactics, Blenheim was established as a
case study site for the design-led research.
Findings were tested against the adjacent
plot to the site with the same site coverage.
This successfully revealed an increase of
131 housing units, decreased average gross
floor area from 175m2 to 80.5m2, and an
increase of unsealed preserved fertile land
by 20%. This resulted in 38% of final model
dedicated to agricultural and horticultural
food production.
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Inclusive Housing: Exploring Culturally Inclusive & Accessible Design in the Contemporary New Zealand State House
The aim of this research is to establish
and apply design methods that define an
appropriate dwelling for New Zealand’s
state housing. The central criteria for this
is accessibility and cultural inclusivity. New
Zealand’s current state housing scheme is
struggling to provide for an ever-growing
waitlist of eligible households. State home
occupants are no longer comprised of
two parents + child(ren) from Pakeha or
Maori backgrounds. Instead, single-person
households, couples with no children or only
one child from all ranges of ethnicities make
up the majority of the state housing register.
This change suggests there is a potential
need for a paradigm shift from three-four
bedroom dwellings to one-two bedroom
and five+ bedroom dwellings becoming
the majority of the housing stock. This
research has been used to create a design
guidelines that provides flexible and inclusive
dwellings. Finally, these guidelines are tested
on a specific site in inner-city Wellington,
proposing a range of dwelling typologies
designed for accessibility and inclusivity that
are explored at three key scales – the urban
landscape, the building envelope and the
interior.
Research Stream: Sustainable Construction & CraftSupervisor: Nilesh Bakshi & Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
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Alice RobertsAlice Roberts
Gentle Pull.
The dream is elusive. It sits comfortably
just beyond grasp, oblivious to the waking
world, giving and taking both influence and
encouragement that reflects our memories.
This push and pull is underestimated, mostly
forgotten by one once awake. A process
has been crafted in this research to bridge
the gap between the two worlds (that of the
dream and that of the awake). As a result
of this process the dream moves from its
metaphysical form to a more graspable
reality, a tangible response that in turn settles
the ambiguous disconnect between dreams
and reality.
Dreams, here personal to the author, have
been recorded over a period of nine months
and their accumulation resulted in a “Book
of Dreams,” which is presented as part
of this thesis. Each dream was recorded
consistently using a process of text, sketching
and painting to translate, interpret and
represent it or to illustrate what had been
experienced in the dream state during the
preceding night. Such crafted recording
process follows the lead of Carl Jung and
Frederik van Eeden. Both psychoanalysts
recorded their dreams over extended periods
of time, to grasp their meaning for use in
the psychology realm. Here, the process
used dreams as an instigator and evolved as
a design process. This thesis tests the idea
of manifesting interior architecture through
such design process.
Research Stream: Contextual ShiftsSupervisor: Philippe Campays
Alice Roberts
Gentle Pull.
The dream is elusive. It sits comfortably just beyond grasp, oblivious to the waking world, giving and taking both influence and encouragement that reflects our memories. This push and pull is underestimated, mostly forgotten by one once awake. A process has been crafted in this research to bridge the gap between the two worlds (that of the dream and that of the awake). As a result of this process the dream moves from its metaphysical form to a more graspable reality, a tangible response that in turn settles the ambiguous disconnect between dreams and reality.
Dreams, here personal to the author, have been recorded over a period of nine months and their accumulation resulted in a “Book of Dreams,” which is presented as part of this thesis. Each dream was recorded consistantly using a process of text, sketching and painting to translate, interpret and represent it or to illustrate what had been experienced in the dream state during the preceding night. Such crafted recording process follows the lead of Carl Jung and Frederik van Eeden. Both psychoanalysts recorded their dreams over extended periods of time, to grasp their meaning for use in the psychology realm. Here, the process used dreams as an instigator and evolved as a design process. This thesis tests the idea of manifesting interior architecture through such design process.
Research Stream: Contextual ShiftsSupervisor: Philippe Campays
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File-to-Factory: Transferring Design Intent to ManufactureDigital fabrication has become a common
way to produce and construct designs more
efficiently, and challenge the traditional way of
construction and the way we design. Despite
the new technologies used to enhance the
design process, there is still a disconnection
between design and construction. Building
Information Modelling (BIM) is a step to
create a more fluid workflow; however, it
is not currently being fully utilised in New
Zealand. The use of BIM tools not only
aims to maximise efficiency when delivering
a project but also provides a solution to
improve file-to-factory production.
Design for Manufacture and Assembly
(DfMA) could have substantial benefits for the
way architecture projects are designed and
constructed. Qualitative and experimental
methods have been used for initial and
developed testing drawn from theoretical
and digital experimentation.
A new workflow has been developed utilising
BIM tools and DfMA principles to explore
the impact this process could have on the
buildings we design and construct in New
Zealand. The workflow does not consist of
new processes or tools, but instead couples
the two together. By utilising existing BIM
technology and implementing DfMA, this
can eliminate the need for remodelling,
and reduce errors, cost and time. This is
significant to the industry because it begins
to streamline the design to construction
process, allowing for it to advance and
increase productivity.
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A New Heart for East Porirua, Waitangirua.An inter-disciplinary exploration into re-imagining the under-utilised centre of Waitangirua.
Waitangirua is a vital piece of the puzzle when
completing the Porirua Regeneration Scheme
and The Transmission Gully Motorway.
Waitangirua is a small suburb of 4020
residents located in the East of Porirua
City. Waitangirua currently hosts a diverse
and young population, but it lacks the
architectural features to encourage diversity
and social interaction. With Transmission
Gully’s completion in 2020 and the
regeneration at the beginning of its 25-year
plan, it is timely to think about the future of
Waitangirua. The current village centre does
not match its neighbourhood, let alone have
the capability to host new people. Leading
to the research question, ‘How can an
under-utilised centre be re-imagined for the
social growth and liveability of its residents?’
A New Heart for East Porirua proposes this
can be achieved by renewing the flow and
connection of the people; to each other, their
village centre and wider Porirua. At the same
time as engaging with the community and
cultural narrative to enhance the site; and
finally, by re-imagining the under-utilised
centre and community hub in a holistic
approach for the on-going journey of the
community of Waitangirua.
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inhabiting: blue
The basis of this work is that Architects
by in large employ physical materials to
generate and define space. Materials such
as timber, stone, bricks, and mortar envelop
and contain. Yet when described in a purely
scientific sense, the visible world can be
defined by light, or the absence of light
and variations in between. The use of light
generates space, creating an architectural
experience, which, this research proposes
then has the ability to manipulate mood,
imparting some kind of response, perhaps
emotional.
The research proposition becomes:
Using a reductivist approach, and employing
only hue, saturation, and brightness to
replace physical materials, this creative body
of work explores how colour can be used to
evoke a response in mixed realities.
Research Stream: Digital Architecture Research Alliance (DARA)Supervisor: Tane Moleta & Marc Aurel Schnabel
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House Music
When you are listening carefully with
your eyes closed, in a church, or a forest,
you engage in attentive listening. Taking
a moment to visualize the world from its
sounds, a complete environment begins to
form, rich in emotion, memories and spatial
dynamics. We feel included in an auditory
equivalent of a landscape. Soundscapes
are like terrains of sonic events. Landscape,
when viewed in this way, as a series of sonic
events in space, becomes less static and full
of architectural possibility.
This research explores how sound can
manifest in architecture through its dynamic,
sonic complexity. In doing so, it attempts to
shift architecture from a privileging of the
visual, to one where spatialized sound has
a direct influence on architecture and how
it is drawn. To research this proposition, the
relationship between sound and architecture
will be tested at three different scales: a
sound installation, a domestic building, and
large-scale. The installation explores how
the body engages with sound and space;
the domestic scale project tests how a small-
scale building can inhabit a sonic and real
landscape; the large-scale design extends
the results of these design tests through a
resolved architectural project, situated in a
physical and sonic landscape. This body of
work will then inform three sonic architectures
in which architecture allows sound to shape
space and experience, seeking to understand
architectures that are beyond the realm of
the visual.
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Michaela ThomsonMichaela Thomson
Bridging the Distance: Accommodating wildlife interaction in an urban setting.
This thesis aims to establish a set of design
guidelines towards understanding how
‘interaction’ can be utilised within the design
process, as a way to reduce biodiversity loss,
fragmentation and to increase everyday
exposure to unique species. Exploration at
different scales will provide a varying range
of interactions, unique to site and users of
the space.
The largest scale, macro, looks towards the
issues that have resulted from fragmentation
such as lack of wildlife movement and habitat
connectivity. The solution of stepping stones
acts as way to introduce wildlife, birds in
particular, to urban sites to establish habitats.
Asides from the lack of possible movement
between habitats, there is also an absence
of human connections to these spaces. The
meso scale works towards re-introducing a
flow of people into the new stepping stones
locations, so that interactions can start to
occur.
Infrastructure and specific designed
elements that provide the correct facilities
to allow for interaction between wildlife and
humans is largely non-existent and often not
conducted safely. Therefore the micro scale
works towards exploring different ways to
encourage people and bird life to not only
inhabit the same space, but to also form
unique relationships.
Research Stream: Ecologies Design LabSupervisor: Maibritt Pedersen Zari
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Architecture for the Poor and Unpriviliged of Jakarta
Research Stream: Public Housing and Urban InfrastructureSupervisor: Fabricio Chicca
Jakarta, in Indonesia, has a significant
population that is visibly living below the
poverty line. With such a large number of
people living in poverty, and there being a
lack of affordable housing, Jakarta faces
an issue where a significant number of
these people are forced to live in informal
settlements, which are spread throughout
the city.
This research proposes a community centre
design which is able to provide necessary
facilities to the informal settlements,
focusing on improving the quality of life.
The research takes into account extensive
site, literature, and precedent analysis;
to develop design criteria which aims
to produce positive neighbourhood
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Patrick WallerPatrick WallerResearch Stream: Public Housing and Urban InfrastructureSupervisor: Fabricio Chicca
Architecture for the Poor and Unpriviliged of Jakarta
Jakarta, in Indonesia, has a significant
population that is visibly living below the
poverty line. With such a large number of
people living in poverty, and there being a
lack of affordable housing, Jakarta faces
an issue where a significant number of
these people are forced to live in informal
settlements, which are spread throughout the
city.
This research proposes a community centre
design which is able to provide necessary
facilities to the informal settlements, focusing
on improving the quality of life. The research
takes into account extensive site, literature,
and precedent analysis; to develop design
criteria which aims to produce positive
neighbourhood development. Traditional
Indonesian architecture has a heavy influence
on the form and construction material.
Patrick Waller
Architecture for the Poor and Unpriviliged of Jakarta
Research Stream: Public Housing and Urban InfrastructureSupervisor: Fabricio Chicca
Jakarta, in Indonesia, has a significant
population that is visibly living below the
poverty line. With such a large number of
people living in poverty, and there being a
lack of affordable housing, Jakarta faces
an issue where a significant number of
these people are forced to live in informal
settlements, which are spread throughout
the city.
This research proposes a community centre
design which is able to provide necessary
facilities to the informal settlements,
focusing on improving the quality of life.
The research takes into account extensive
site, literature, and precedent analysis;
to develop design criteria which aims
to produce positive neighbourhood
development. Traditional Indonesian
architecture has a heavy influence on the
form and construction material.
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Chelsea WalshChelsea WalshResearch Stream: Indigenous Materials Domains (IMD)Supervisor: Derek Kawiti
Reporting to Detention: Developing the architectural model of New Zealand’s youth residences.
Conversations surrounding New Zealand’s
young offenders have always been
controversial, especially with reoffending
rates on the rise according to the 2018
Ministry of Justice Youth Offenders Report
(Ministry of Justice, 2018). This research
portfolio challenged the way we approach
built form of New Zealand’s youth residences
by considering architecture as a device
that can aid in the rehabilitation of youth
in the justice system. With only four youth
residences nationally, the current state of
residences demonstrate school-like buildings
trapped inside wired fences.
Reporting to Detention critically evaluated
the design influence of Ma-tauranga Ma-ori
through the local indigenous Ma-ori culture
and community at the research location of
Pa-tea. Design methods which underpin this
methodology consisted of design drivers
such as colour and mapping in space to
enhance a narrative that stimulates program.
The use of colour was explored as a means
to contribute to the therapeutic environment
creating a relationship to space. I am
proposing a building designed not only for
a functional purpose but to create purpose
in the lives of New Zealand’s at-risk youth.
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Play is an act of discovery and stimulation. As children, we play to learn and grow. As adults, we play for freedom and to escape from reality. The action of play is a largely neglected aspect of peoples experience in urban public space. It is the un-functional and impractical use of the environment that fulfills a human instinct and curiosity that can spark conversation and spontaneity in public spaces. This thesis aims to understand how the inclusion of play and playful behaviour can create polycentric environments that can contribute to the reversal of social fragmentation between our ethnic communities and improve social cohesion and resilience within Newtown and Berhampore, socially deprived suburbs in Wellington, New Zealand. The method of this research focuses on combining methods of spatial assessment and community engagement to develop a holistic understanding of play across social, cultural and physical dimensions. Observational studies, public surveying and community workshops combined with a comparative study across a series of case studies provided a foundation of knowledge that was then able to be applied to the design of physical playful spaces.
Hayley WebberHayley WebberResearch Stream: Contextual ShiftsSupervisor: Carles Martinez Almoyna Gual
A Space to Call Our Own: An investigation into designing for play in urban environments
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Jessie WrigglesworthJessie WrigglesworthResearch Stream: Ecologies Design LabSupervisor: Peter Connolly
EDGE-SCAPES: an inquiry into coastal edges, design process & landscape architecture practice.
As the landscape architecture discipline
grapples with the immense challenges
of our anthropocenic world, it concerns
itself with the solving of extremely complex
environmental, climatic, socio-political-
economical and cultural challenges that
blanket the concept of landscapes.
Responding to this, landscape architecture
pedagogy, academia and parts of
practice have turned to systems design,
‘instrumentality’, quantities and data with a
focus on large-scale strategy and planning.
While this might be a necessary step in
engaging with our world’s ever-present
issues, it is problematic if this is at the expense
of important other realms of landscape
design. Fundamental to landscape design
is our ability to articulate landscape spaces
for human use and experience and that
the discipline acknowledges that central to
this placemaking is how to engage with the
uniqueness of the pre-existing landscape.
This research proposes that the relationship
between the human body and its environment
is central to this and that an embrace of affect
is the way to re-think and re-orient design
practice in way that will allow it to engage
with uniqueness and in a manner suited to
the complex and perplexing demands of the
current era.
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A Place in Nowhere: Curating our experience of site, to facilitate placemaking.The resulting thesis finds that architecture
can create distinctive and diverse ‘places’ in
large landscapes by enabling new ways for
people to experience site. The created places
result in a deeply felt experience and, when
positioned in a series, they highlight the
significance of the landscape, by revealing
how it changes throughout a journey.
A series of nine interventions tested and
refined methods for generating architectural
outcomes. This resulted in a refined
methodology focused around narrative
techniques. By taking this approach it exposes
the profession’s reliance on objectivity and
fact, finding that narrative methodologies
can provide deeper insights and stronger
concepts when related to experience. After
all, the ultimate measure of architecture is in
the experience of it.
Research Stream: Ecologies Design LabSupervisor: Maibritt Pedersen Zari
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Bradley WyattBradley WyattResearch Stream: Contemporary WorkplacesSupervisor: Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
Socialising Office Space: Flexibility through a layering of multiple programs in traditional office buildings.
This design-research project explores
extending the flexibility of a typical 1960s
open-plan office building. Through the use of
cross-programming, the building now works
along a 24-hour timespan. Housing a co-
working office, community space and a night
shelter, the building models a more efficient
use of office space within our central cities. A
focus on the individual allows a meaningful
connection to space and to others through
parallel design interventions that operate as
desks and as sleeping pods.
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Qiaoliang (Will) XuQiaoliang (Will) XuResearch Stream: Digital Architectural Research Alliance (DARA)Supervisor: André Brown, Maria Rodgers & Bruno Marques
Inhabiting ‘Prosperous Suzhou’: Interrogating ancient artwork and documents to manifest tangible and intangible heritageThis research investigates the digital
landscape heritage. It focuses on the
application of VR to the understanding and
interpretation of ancient principles relating
to sensitive and appropriate interaction
of built form and associated landscape.
The principles have harmony of human
inhabitation, built forms and their landscape
at their root. This understanding can lead to
re-application in a contemporary context,
and the VR environment has the potential to
augment and enrich it. This research seeks
to reinterpret a classical depiction of Suzhou
in an 18th-century handscroll painting
into a three-dimensional immersive virtual
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environment. It proposes that VR can be a way
to experience and increase understanding
of heritage landscapes that no longer exist.
The reinterpretation aims to enhance the
users’ experience and understanding of the
tangible and intangible cultural heritage. The
spatialised scene is augmented through the
integration of other historical information,
such as poems and travel notes, to embed
intangible aspects. The reinterpretation
process can be summarised as being in two
stages, representing the site context and the
site content. Context refers to the geometry
and built forms of the world, whereas content
includes social and cultural heritage.
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Red Lights
People have a tricky relationship with sex.
Where, when, how, and with whom we have
sex is as much a product of social convention
as biological necessity. New Zealand has
been legally progressive in enabling its
economic practice, but culturally puritanical
in how we treat those who make use of
that legal protection. The result of this is a
stigma surrounding the purchase of sex, sex-
work, and the architecture associated with
it. This thesis asks how architectural design
and representation can challenge sex-work
stigma. It explores the spatiality, forms and
the drawing of sex-work architecture and
makes subtle, often satirical inflections,
through design research. Stigma as a
spatial and representational phenomenon is
explored and critiqued, leading to a strong
challenge to norms of sex-work stigma.
The design research is conducted at three
different scales, through a series of design
experiments. These allow stigma to be tested
at individual, group, and societal scales,
and lead to three distinct architectural
propositions: an installation which uses
architectural drawing to question social
conventions; a brothel is designed which
confronts public perceptions of sex-work;
and a red-light district is mapped out that
enables safe, educated, and legally sound
participation in the sex industry. The aim is
to produce architecture that resists sex-work
stigma as well as enabling and supporting
community driven resistance and activism
against it.
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Bridget BuxtonBridget BuxtonResearch Stream: Ecologies Design LabSupervisor: Mark Southcombe
A River’s Call: An architectural response, in the spirit of Te Awa Tupua
The Whanganui River was the first in the world
to be granted the status of a legal person.
Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims
Settlement) Bill was passed on 16 March
2017 after a 140-year long campaign by
Whanganui Iwi. This groundbreaking piece
of legislation was a call for protection of our
environment.
This research was an inquiry into how
architecture can recognise the Awa and
respond to her as an ‘indivisible and living
whole’ (Te Awa Tupua Act 2017, 14). The
work is a response not to Te Awa Tupua
document, but instead to the wairua, or
the spirit of Te Awa Tupua. Wairua is more
than the physical form of the river’s channel
and bed, but comprises her people, her
history, her tributaries, her floodplains,
and her spiritual presence. The thesis uses
traditional research and design-as-research
concurrently to gain an understanding of the
historical, cultural, political, ecological and
social context.
Through architectural experiments, the
research explores the relationship the Awa
has with different scales of human presence;
in terms of the person, the town, and wider
patterns of settlement, and at different points
of time; past, present, and future.
Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act. 2017. Vol. 2. Wellington: New Zealand Government.
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The changing demographic of New Zealand
proposes many challenges within the built
environment that we live in. The increase
of collectivist cultures in an individualistic
society often leads to problems such as the
housing of these different cultures. Traditional
housing in New Zealand favours a stand-
alone dwelling that although has benefits
of its own, struggles to meet the changing
needs of New Zealanders in this day and
age. This then leads to many negative
outcomes such as elitism and a deficiency
of appropriate housing. Furthermore, the
traditional typology also results in an absence
of social interaction between different
cultures, preventing the togetherness of these
environments to reach full potential.
The design response of this thesis manages
to achieve an architecturally interesting and
spatially diverse housing scheme through the
use of various different design principles.
Through experimentation, it is found that
medium density housing in New Zealand is
able to house a variance of different cultures
through a carefully designed program that
considers different needs and requirements of
different groups. Through the use of density,
living options and flexibility, inclusiveness is
achieved within the built form. A mix of these
living types – both for individualistic cultures
and collectivist cultures – allows different
people to have what they might want, while
still allowing them to be within the presence
of one another.
Austin D’SouzaAustin D’SouzaResearch Stream: Contextual ShiftsSupervisors: Jacqueline McIntosh
The Togetherness of Strangers
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Play for Change: Primary School for Children with ImpairmentsWithin the architecture of education, there is
a lack of attention to the needs of children
with disability. Globally, one in every ten
children have a disability and there are
approximately 90,000 aged 0-14 children
living in households who have at least one
disability in New Zealand. The cohort is
one of the most marginalised and excluded
group from the society, resulting in an
inability to participate in classes leading
to fewer opportunities to develop skills,
experience and confidence. School designs
are designed for children without disability,
and many children with disabilities find that
classrooms and outdoor environments are
ill-suited for their health needs, resulting in
low attendance rates, poor peer engagement
and limited educational success.
This thesis explores the role of architecture
in facilitating the education of children
with disabilities. Working from research-
led design through to design-led research,
it examines architecture as an educational
tool. Examining classroom spaces, outdoor
play and outdoor learning environment
for children with disabilities, it questions
the purpose of education. In addition, the
research aims to desensitise the perceived
architectural barriers within primary school
that restricts participation for children with
disabilities. By addressing this issue, it could
potentially create more positive and optimistic
views and from the wider community, greater
disability awareness.
Research Stream: Contextual ShiftsSupervisor: Jacqueline McIntosh
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Brittany IrvineBrittany IrvineResearch Stream: Building Materials and TechnologySupervisor: Guy Marriage
getwavy:getwavy: Introducing irregularity into modular timber housingThe construction industry accounts for
23% of global CO2 emissions each year.
Coupled with contemporary pressures of
urbanisation, there is demand for increased
density construction. Engineered timber is
a sustainable and structural solution for
these issues. To improve the relationship
the industry has with the environment it
must reconsider its construction methods
and material choices.
This research explores the tectonics of CLT
and develops a diverse design language
that offsets how the material has been
traditionally used by developing a series
of components that can be assembled on
various urban sites.
The implications of this research are to
provide an alternative approach to urban
medium-density housing using engineered
timber technology proposing visual and
spatial improvements to inner-city living in
New Zealand.
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Emily NewmarchEmily Newmarch
Climatic Conscience for Dwelling Design
In New Zealand, our residential architecture
is built off the pragmatic approach of the
instinctive farmer, and the desire to dissolve
the boundary between architecture and
landscape. In the search to create the
dream home, many have packed up their
beach houses to set up camp in the alpine
environment surrounding Queenstown,
causing the population and construction
demand in the area to rise rapidly. As a result,
the building’s thermal envelope is put under
pressure to perform both pragmatically and
poetically as it faces an extreme environments
to live in. In response, the research focused
on the potential to exceed the minimum
thermal envelope requirements, whilst actively
engaging with the relationship between
architecture and its environment. Quantitative
and qualitative research methods were used
to explore the dialectic between pragmatic
and poetic approaches to design. Early
theoretical investigations sculpted a series
of strategies and criteria that was refined
through investigations at the scale of a cabin
and then a full building. The developed
design proposal builds off the aesthetic of
an external structure to integrate the building
within its landscape, whilst removing the load-
bearing requirements from the building’s
thermal envelope, reducing the predicted
amount of heating energy. As a speculative
and simulated design, it hopes to become an
example of how much potential there is for
architects to push boundaries with aesthetic
and performance-based design decisions.
Research Stream: AMPD / Human EnvironmentSupervisor: Antony Pelosi & Michael Donn
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Duong NguyenResearch Stream: Digital Architectural Research Alliance (DARA)Supervisor: Tane Moleta & Marc Aurel Schnabel
Mindful Manifestation: From EEG to Virtual Reality
On the motivation of the current spirit
of the age, increased interest in artificial
intelligence and creativity, this research
poses the question of “can we design
architecture using brain activities?”. The
research question is answered with the
development of a brain-computer interface
in virtual reality (BCI-VR). The interface
consists of a 14-channel EMOTIV EEG
headset, and the virtual reality experienced
in the head-mounted display (HMD) HTC
Vive Headset. EEG data were collected
from the CortexUI cloud database,
transferred to interact with design contents
in Grasshopper, then experienced in VR
through Unity. The research has progressed
as far as the design of architectural
concepts through the interaction of pre-
designed architectural forms with multiple
design scenarios. The research outcome
formulates a foreground as part of
ongoing research in developing a means
of designing architecture directly through
the mind’s eye. “I think therefore it is” is
the ultimate goal. The QR code provides a
link to a video to see this interaction. The
poster highlights all the possible design
interaction and their results.
Duong NguyenResearch Stream: Digital Architectural Research Alliance (DARA)Supervisor: Tane Moleta & Marc Aurel Schnabel
Mindful Manifestation: From EEG to Virtual Reality
On the motivation of the current spirit
of the age, increased interest in artificial
intelligence and creativity, this research
poses the question of “can we design
architecture using brain activities?”. The
research question is answered with the
development of a brain-computer interface
in virtual reality (BCI-VR). The interface
consists of a 14-channel EMOTIV EEG
headset, and the virtual reality experienced
in the head-mounted display (HMD) HTC
Vive Headset. EEG data were collected
from the CortexUI cloud database,
transferred to interact with design contents
in Grasshopper, then experienced in VR
through Unity. The research has progressed
as far as the design of architectural
concepts through the interaction of pre-
designed architectural forms with multiple
design scenarios. The research outcome
formulates a foreground as part of
ongoing research in developing a means
of designing architecture directly through
the mind’s eye. “I think therefore it is” is
the ultimate goal. The QR code provides a
link to a video to see this interaction. The
poster highlights all the possible design
interaction and their results.
Duong NguyenDuong NguyenResearch Stream: Digital Architectural Research Alliance (DARA)Supervisor: Tane Moleta & Marc Aurel Schnabel
Mindful Manifestation: From EEG to Virtual Reality
On the motivation of the current spirit of the
age, increased interest in artificial intelligence
and creativity, this research poses the
question of “can we design architecture using
brain activities?”. The research question is
answered with the development of a brain-
computer interface in virtual reality (BCI-
VR). The interface consists of a 14-channel
EMOTIV EEG headset, and the virtual reality
experienced in the head-mounted display
(HMD) HTC Vive Headset. EEG data were
collected from the CortexUI cloud databse,
transferred to interact with design contents in
Grasshopper, then experienced in VR through
Unity. The research has progressed as far as
the design of architectural concepts through
the interaction of pre-designed architectural
forms with multiple design scenarios. The
research outcome formulates a foreground
as part of ongoing research in developing
a means of designing architecture directly
through the mind’s eye. “I think, therefore it
is” is the ultimate goal. The QR code provides
a link to a video to see this interaction. The
poster highlights all the possible design
interactions and their results.
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Cameron WilsonCameron WilsonResearch Stream: Art & ArchitectureSupervisor: Sam Kebbell
Island & Field
We build transport infrastructure to move
about the city efficiently. However, in New
Zealand, it is often one-dimensional and
disconnected from the urban fabric. This is
the case in Hataitai, where State Highway
1 imposes a boundary between the nearby
village and the Town Belt that could be
bridged when new work on the Mt Victoria
Tunnel takes place.
What could be the nature of a pedestrian
bridge that connects these disparate urban
territories?
I explored this question with two distinct
methods. The first used ‘fast and loose’
hand drawing and physical modelling
to explore a ubiquitous mesh structure,
replacing the ground plane of the site.
This Field accommodated a variety of
programmed elements and crossings. The
second experiment replaced the mesh with
an autonomous loop between the park,
village and tunnel. This Island required more
precise digital modelling tools and a more
measured design process.
The two methods offer vastly different
approaches to urban design. The ubiquitous
mesh replaces the existing ground by
extending it. The Loop structure is an
autonomous fiigure over the existing and
messy ground of the urban junction below.
The research demonstrates the tensions
between these two approaches to urban
intervention and how they can offer alluring
moments in the everyday life of the city.
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Gilles Clément, in his 2004 booklet
Manifeste du tiers paysage (Manifesto of
the Third Landscape), advocates designing
from the landscape as opposed to designing
against the landscape. Clément categorises
the natural environment into three types
of landscape that distinguish what kind of
environment they are and how they should
be treated. Clément uses the term ‘third
landscape’ to refer to a third state of being,
at the margins, where landscape belongs
neither to the ‘territory of the shadow’ nor
‘that of the light’. The third landscape is
the space unattended by man and ruled
over by natural evolution; included in this
category are the nature reserves, deserts
and mountain summits, the untouched
spaces that remain in their natural state.
This research investigation looks at how
architecture might be meaningfully designed
within six hypothetical examples of the third
landscape.
Dan CastroDan Castro
Codex of the Third Landscape
Research Stream: Architecture and DystopiaSupervisor: Daniel K. Brown
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Mark WilkinsonMark Wilkinson
Embodied Remembrance
Research Stream: Experimental Design ResearchSupervisor: Jan Smitheram
This thesis introduces embodied
remembrance, to mediate the experience
of the body and the digital in architecture.
The rise of the digital has enabled an
architecture which primarily responds to
abstract desires and commodification.
Embodied remembrance opposes this
divorce from the digital to allow the
architecture to access the affective richness
embodied in mnemonic narratives. A
‘design as research’ methodology solidifies
the theoretical proposition through four
stages of design. The first three designs
incrementally scale-up in the design of a
spatial installation, medium-scale house-
museum, and a public-scale care facility/
archive. The final design shifts downwards
in scale to consolidate the research findings.
Each design shifts the theoretical framework,
allowing critical reassessment of the design
and research proposition. This research
suggests an alternative architectural
paradigm, sensitive to the complex issue of
embodied remembrance experienced by the
body.
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