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Senses of hauora and well-being in early childhood initial teacher education during a pandemic
No full textHealthy Families Waitakere: Health & Wellbeing workshops for teachers.
Recognising concerns about teacher wellbeing
Teachers raising questions about teacher education
Formation of the roopu
Designing the research –during a pandemi
SITJAR Special Edition: Mechanical engineering
No full textThis Special Edition: Mechanical Engineering is a culmination of student projects from Otago Polytechnic, Manukau Institute of Technology and the Southern Institute of Technology. Students, working with their project supervisors, turned these projects into
the published research articles which appear in this edition. All these articles have been peer reviewed. The articles represent a cross section of topics related to Mechanical Engineerin
Nature’s prescription : making room for green spaces in highly dense cities to combat urban stress
No full textContinuous 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 for commerce and entertainment, the life’s value predominantly decreases. Causing a lot of problems on how the people respond to everyday life around, making them more stressed and deprived to the point that Metro manila is now one of the top 10 most stressful cities to live in the world.
The association between urban green space and well-being has been extensively studied and practiced in many parts of the world. However, in developing countries such as Philippines, there are few examples of such studies. This research looks at the effects of urban densification on green space and its planning. The researcher identified the problems, challenges, and strategies of urban green space planning during densification processes. Furthermore, this research also investigated the effect of urban green spaces in relation to public health. The project adopts the framework of research by design. This method visually shows the design model and the changing of the urban layout.
Findings from this research suggests that while urbanization in Manila is rapid, there are still plenty of available sites which could be worked on and turned into green spaces. Base on the findings, there are underutilized idle lands located in prime areas within the city. Many of these Idle lands are in highly urbanized areas. So, creating urban green spaces on this type of setting, will not only address the problem of urban greening, but also enhance the quality of life within the community
In loving memory of - : The repurposing of former Carrington Hospital as a community hub
No full textRESEARCH QUESTION:
How can Building One be adaptively reused to regenerate the community of Point Chevalier?
ABSTRACT:
Once the function of a building becomes redundant, it is demolished without hesitation, or it is abandoned, resulting in the building falling into a derelict condition and eventually being demolished. Existing buildings have a vast amount of creative potential that can be explored. Adaptive reuse is a form of conservation applied to establish a new use for an existing building. Through adaptive reuse, communities can experience a stronger connection to their built environment and culture.
The original section of the former Carrington Hospital has Category 1 heritage status and the building has substantial cultural significance. The building was recently vacated as it was sold to the Crown, along with a section of Unitec campus land. The land is expected to be developed into 2500 to 4000 housing units. The heritage building might be subjected to reuse, but no definite plans are available as of now. Being on the national register offers heritage buildings recognition, not protection, and since the building is currently unoccupied without any concrete plans, its future is unknown. The project deals with the conservation of the former Carrington Hospital building through adaptation to reincorporate the building into the future of Point Chevalier to provide for the community.
The ICOMOS New Zealand Charter (revised 2010) is a primary source for the project, providing insight into various conservation principles.
The project investigates several works of literature to recognise response strategies for adaptation. It also discovers how the memory of the building’s past use as a psychiatric hospital can be utilised and honoured. Methods of community regeneration are also studied. The precedent review consists of overarching precedents and programmatic precedents. The first explores ways in which conservation interventions are carried out in heritage buildings. The latter explores how heritage buildings have been reused as arts and community facilities while respecting their historical layers.
The result will establish a building dedicated to its community. By catering for community needs and establishing several necessary strategies, the building can regenerate its community. The new use will also incorporate the memory of the original use as a psychiatric hospital, without erasing its stigmatised past. The building’s proposed new usage will maintain a sense of continuity with the past while developing its future
Power-to-Hydrogen and Hydrogen-to-X : system Analysis of the techno-economic, legal, and regulatory conditions
No full textP2X pathway definitions has the aim to clarify terminologies that are often used but with different meanings or intentions which leads to misunderstanding and ambiguity. The Task Force Definitions have addressed this issue in the first chapter of this document, clarifying the terminologies adopted for the rest of the document. Once the hydrogen pathways from the production step to the application side are defined, the current hydrogen status is inspected. As numerous its energy applications are, hydrogen is mainly used today as a chemical component in industries like ammonia production and refineries. The energy related hydrogen pathways are currently mainly seen through demonstration projects. The Power to X demos around the world is reviewed and analysed within the framework of ST2. The results show that the investigated pathways are diversified with a recent trend towards hydrogen industrial applications attracting interes
Enigmatic assemblages: Follies at the intersection of architecture and photography
No full textHyperreal architectural photographic assemblages proliferate within contemporary media: artists, photographers and architects envision digital worlds that operate at the intersection of hyperreal architectural renders, artistic media and photography. The manifestation of these assemblages can be examined in the works of French artist Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy (1986–), and Canadian artists Carl Zimmerman (1951–) and David Trautrimas.
Gaudrillot-Roy’s assemblages from the series Façades #3 interrogate the notion of architectural form, how buildings impose and connect with their environments. The photographs present the buildings in a superficially twilight aesthetic; the viewer’s immediate glance registers a possible reality, but a second glance confirms the flattened buildings can only be a discourse on the enigmatic notion of spatial qualities. Zimmerman’s photographic practice questions the notion of imagined environments by using the mechanism of the folly or ruin within a utopian world. In contrast, Trautrimas’s assemblages use pastiche, montage and collage to extend on both Zimmerman’s and Gaudrillot-Roy’s images, creating surreal utopian possibilities that transform an actuality by creating and manipulating spatial qualities, redefining how we conceive and perceive space.
These pluralistic assemblages draw insights and multiple narratives, as digital architecture has become pervasive and ubiquitous in the search for spatial properties. Unique and enigmatic narratives are constructed, allowing investigations to further the Deleuzian concept of ‘assemblage’ (in French, agencement). This paper aims to shed light on how this contradiction is a central engine for the articulation of relevant discourses and narratives, which have a significant impact on contemporary spatial conception and practices, and push the creative research beyond the limits of the mere superposition that one experiences daily with the digital augmentation of reality
Identifying critical leadership soft skills for career success : a content analysis of project management job advertisements in New Zealand
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Introduction & rationale
Literature review
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Analysis & results
Discussion & implications
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Areas for further researc
Performance comparison of IEEE802.11ac vs IEEE 802.11n WLAN in IPv6
No full textIn this paper, performance of WLAN (Wireless LAN) for peer-peer and client-server networks with WPA-2 security is investigated for both IEEE802.11ac and IEEE802.11n standard. Parameters studied include throughput, and RTT (round trip time) of IPv4 and IPv6 protocols for both TCP and UDP. IPv4 outperform IPv6 in terms of bandwidth and delay due its lower overhead size. IEEE 802.11ac had much better performance than IEEE 802.11n
Bayanihan in Mindanao
No full textRESEARCH QUESTION:
How can architecture improve the quality of life and empower abused women and children through life skills and training opportunities that a Bayanihan* can create?
[*In the Philippines, the act of Bayanihan is Filipinos’ way of helping one another. It also comes from the Filipino word, bayan, which means town or community. During bayanihan, Filipinos do acts of service or share their resources to those in need.]
AIMS & OBJECTIVES:
The aim of this project is to design not just a place for refuge but also a place with an adequate environment that gives education and opportunity for abused women and children in Mindanao. The project will also include a self-managing system that can educate and support women by using local resources to create a community that is adaptable and reasonably self-sufficient, whilst reducing the impact that people can have on the environment
