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Sensitive Developments. The Role of Bluefield Reuse and Infill Development in Auckland Residential Suburbs
No full textThe classic Kiwi lifestyle has followed the concept of a single-family home on a quarter-acre section for generations after colonisation . However, with increasing housing needs, cost-of-living crises and environmental crises, we must question how we live and our actions as humans and design our homes to meet changing needs.
Within the architecture and design industry, there is a tension between new construction and conservation. Some argue that new builds are the solution as they are designed and constructed using the latest technologies to meet the current housing densification needs. However, others argue that conserving the existing built environment and cultural heritage is more sustainable, using methods such as adaption and retrofit to bring buildings up to current standards.
Conserving historic buildings through sustainable solutions is a way to avoid erasing quintessential New Zealand architecture styles from the rapidly evolving built environment. The traditional New Zealand villa is an example of existing housing stock that fills the central suburbs of New Zealand’s cities, which are now prime candidates for development to meet housing and densification needs. For buildings in existing suburbs with cultural and historical significance, a careful balance is needed between infill densification, building conservation and appropriate interventions. This poses the research question: How can interventions to existing residential buildings assist in contemporary infill development while maintaining existing neighbourhood character?
This research proposes the use of Bluefield development solutions and architectural concepts such as adaptive reuse, retrofitting, relocation and infill development to create an architectural response that challenges the objectives behind building policy, reimagining the existing family home and how we can co-exist between heritage and modern living.
The work aims to explore sensitive building solutions within Auckland, New Zealand, focusing on infill development and adaptive reuse. It examines adaptation, relocation, cooperative living and existing government policies and practices. By analysing how design research and practices exist under current local and government housing policies, this thesis aims to challenge the current understanding of these policies, exploring the physical and non-physical aspects of urban housing to understand new ways of living within current and future environments. This is explored by creating a design guide that assists in the site’s analysis and design process. The design guide is tested through a design project to reveal how Bluefield’s design and methodology can be used as a tool to create sensitive densification. The final design demonstrates a method to increase density eight times without demolishing structures or removing the existing nature. If implemented across other sites in the neighbourhood, it could substantially boost the number of homes while minimizing environmental and heritage impacts
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Stacking Up: Piecing Together a Reinterpreted Architectonic Condition for New Lynn
No full textFull text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.Drawing on the age-old architectural traditions of brick making and brick building, this thesis is thus titled 'Stacking Up'. Beginning with the earliest cities, inherent material qualities have resulted in its persistence through the ages, constituting a reliable and dynamic building material for the current day. The now-defunct and demolished clay industry of West Auckland, centred in the suburb of New Lynn serves as the key architectonic impetus. Once operating as a leading national, technological and social hub of innovation in brick and ceramics production, the New Lynn town centre today retains close to none of its historic industrial architectural fabric. Ongoing urban development remains commercially-driven and involving little engagement with its architectural heritage. The chosen site in the heart of the town centre will establish a connection between the community, the earth and the neglected waters of the Rewarewa Stream which once generated a booming industry. The research poses the question: How may the historic architectural tradition of brick production and use in the demolished New Lynn clay industry, inform a contemporary architectonic response for a new New Lynn Community Centre and enable greater social cohesion? Twentieth century applications are explored within contexts where the humble brick is privileged ahead of advanced construction technologies. The wider urban and socio-economic benefits of this building practice, such as providing a means of employment or self-build housing are traced back to ancient settlements, where the construction of communal facilities constituted a collective undertaking. Evaluating and reinterpreting the processes used in historic and contemporary brick production informs the development of a composite building system, for the design of a new Community Centre. Drawing on the historic backyard production of New Lynn's first earthen drain pipe, core processes of molding and firing are combined with digital modelling to facilitate a contemporary response. The research and design proposal displays the inherent material versatility of brick to produce highly contextual architectural responses. Illustrated by humankind's earliest applications, this may be extracted from urban or social conditions and historic building traditions, to offer unique structural, aesthetic and environmental advantages. A series of urban context studies also aids the understanding and provision of public infrastructure within the New Lynn town centre
Unreinforced Masonry Precincts in New Zealand: History, Heritage, and Seismic Retrofit
No full textNew Zealand’s built heritage tradition is one of persistence and innovation, that continues to evolve in response to social and environmental conditions. Extensive damage caused by natural disasters such as the Canterbury earthquake sequence (2010-2011) focused public sentiment on an overlooked historic construction typology: unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings. The findings of the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission (2012) highlighted a high proportion of deaths that occurred in public places, as a result of collapsed nineteenth- and twentieth-century URM buildings during the earthquakes. Throughout New Zealand, many such buildings were built in clusters and therefore survive as historic areas or precincts. Arising from the need to address public urban safety in conjunction with privileging historic building fabric, this thesis employs architectural heritage conservation as a framework for examining New Zealand’s history, heritage, and seismic retrofit of URM precincts. Heritage conservation through seismic retrofit demands analysis of architectural and structural seismic design principles. The thesis examines the application of contemporary conservation theory through selected case studies that document and analyse the history, significance, and seismic retrofit initiatives for URM precincts in New Zealand. The principal research question is: how can an understanding of architectural history and heritage conservation inform the selection of seismic retrofit and structural upgrading solutions to privilege the historic fabric of URM building precincts in New Zealand? The theoretical basis and practical challenges informing the analysis are captured by a series of sub-questions, including: To what extent does international architectural heritage conservation theory address pre- and post-disaster seismic and structural upgrade of historic URM building precincts? How may a multidisciplinary precinct-scale approach to seismic retrofitting historic buildings help to achieve greater urban safety? This thesis shows that New Zealand cities and towns feature an evolving, living, architectural heritage tradition of URM construction, built between 1880 and 1930. Examining national and international discourse reveals a shift in focus of conservation principles and practice, from individual buildings to precinct. The documented histories of change and adaptation suggest that the local URM precincts should be treated as examples of a functioning, built heritage when considering pre- and post-earthquake interventions and future role
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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