Current PhD research
Meet a selection of PhD students in the Wellington School of Architecture and learn about their research.
Armano Papageorge
Autonomous Off-Site Construction: Structurally Optimised and Mass Customisable Building Components.
Daniel Coombes
An aesthetics of more-than-human designing in the Anthropocene
Eva Forster-Garbutt
(A)dressing the room: Decorative interior linings in New Zealand’s Victorian and Edwardian homes (1837-1914)
Francis Hubbard
Identifying indicators of success in the ‘Build Back Better’ post disaster reconstruction framework
Ged Finch
Developing affordable circular economy solutions for the construction industry.
Germán Molina
Making indoor ‘comfort’ a selling point in the housing market.
Griffin Cherrill
Tools to assess the risk of internal moisture from timber thermal bridges
Hossein Panahi
Urban form characteristics and land surface temperature - A spatial analysis of patterns, relationships and scenarios in New Zealand cities
Hossein Behmanesh
Research by postgraduate Architecture student Hossein Behmanesh explores the use of digital tools in planning events in public urban spaces.
Kamiya Varshney
Regenerative architecture: carbon sequestration and habitat provisioning through building design
Kasun Perera
Outdoor thermal comfort - An adaptive model to assess thermal comfort in urban outdoors in New Zealand
Leandro López
Leandro's research investigates how hidden river features and characteristics can inform landscape architecture design methods.
Luca Caiaffa
Magical Realist Cartographies
Maggie MacKinnon
Regenerative urban habitats
Maria Rodgers
(Re)Planting our natural heritage in urban Aotearoa New Zealand
Oludolapo Ibrahim Olanrewaju
Improving data quality assurance in the construction environment product declaration (EPD) for a reliable whole-building life cycle assessment (WBLCA).
Rachel Paschoalin
Renovation of Historic Buildings in New Zealand: Towards a holistic method for reducing environmental impact
Rana Abdollahi Rizi
Rana Abdollahi Rizi’s research investigates buildings envelope design considering occupants' behaviour and their comfort for building energy efficiency
Saima Shaikh
Improving housing resilience through Disaster Knowledge Management (DKM) assessment
Sepideh Afsari Bajestani
Exploring the relationship between place and place-making and creative-led developments.
Sophie Jerram
Sophie's research investigates the relationship between specific artistic encounters and commoning.
Swarnali Dihingia
The walking tourist: An investigation of people’s perception when walking
Yiwen Cui
Yiwen's research explores the sense of community in Aotearoa and how participatory planning processes can influence how different ethnic groups perceive it.
Yutong Jin
The architecture and humanities of ancient religious paintings are transferred from a two-dimensional space to an immersive virtual environment