Current PhD research
Meet a selection of PhD students in the Wellington School of Architecture and learn about their research.
Rana Abdollahi Rizi
Rana Abdollahi Rizi’s research investigates buildings envelope design considering occupants' behaviour and their comfort for building energy efficiency
Olabisi Ololade Ajiferuke
Developing an Artificial Intelligence Cost Decision Support System for Construction Projects: Towards Improving Cost Management
Pelpuo Rashid Alhassan
An Integrated Low-carbon Building Material Environment Visibility Prototype
Jiaxiang Bai
Improving project management with artificial intelligence and knowledge management
Ian Bowman
The history of applied architectural paint colours and decorative schemes on the exteriors of New Zealand buildings 1840-1925
Xiaohui Chen
Revisiting Publicness: Navigating Spatial Justice in Public Open Spaces Under Private Development
Luca Caiaffa
Magical-Real Drawing: Speculative Architectural Cartographies of One Hundred Years of Solitude
Daniel Coombes
Witnessing Landscape Contemplation: Three arrivals of contemplation in Aotearoa re-enacted through a Pākehā landscape practice
Thathsarani de Silva
Towards Developing an Area-Based Landscape Character Assessment Methodology for Sri Lanka
Laura Dunham
Beyond Site and Screen: The Magic Lantern and Effecting Change in New Zealand’s Built Environment, 1880–1950
Maxwell Fobi Kontor
Confluence of Urban Informality and Climate Change: Examining the resilience of informal settlements to heat stress in Ghana
Cansu Inal Kaynar
Examining the Effect of Reusing Heritage Buildings on the Resilience of Small-Town Centres in New Zealand
Jie Jin
Enhancing Pedestrian Interaction in Public Spaces: Integrating Geo-located AR Technology with Street Performance
Yutong Jin
Exploring Awe and Spirituality in Virtual Reality: Integrating Buddhist Elements into Digital Monumental Architecture
Hirda Khalid
Indoor Overheating Risks: Window Design Framework for Multi-Unit Urban Dwellings
Raphaël Lambotte
WHAT IS COMING: Ce qui arrive
Yanxin Liu
Identify the role of urban agriculture in enhancing post-disaster food security through vegetable production in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Yunxi Liu
Optimising Low-Toxicity Material Selection: Enhancing BIM for Sustainable Commercial Design
Leandro López
Leandro's research investigates how hidden river features and characteristics can inform landscape architecture design methods.
Thirumarban Madhavaraman
AI in the cost planning of Project Management
Giulia Marchesini
Educational Marine Areas: when culture and nature interact through Education for Sustainable Development in Polynesia and beyond
Willy Missack
Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Adaption and Wellbeing in Vanuatu
Gehad Mohamed
Material Passport Adoption in New Zealand’s Construction Industry.
Negar Nazaralhouei
Constraints to The Adoption of Earth Building in New Zealand
Chaudhry Nouman Ali
A rule-based automated plan approval system of single-story timber homes according to the NZ building code using CNN and GAN
Ivy Peng
Enhancing Life Cycle Assessment Data Quality: A Framework for Toxicity Reporting in the Construction Sector
Asma Rashidi Mohammadi
Harmonising Timber life-cycle Informed by Kaupapa Māori: Unveiling Te Ako Torowhānui
Maria Rodgers
(Re)Planting te taiao in urban Aotearoa New Zealand
Masi (Masoumeh) Shiran
Environmental Impact Assessment of Retrofit Strategies for Residential Buildings in New Zealand: Focusing on Carbon Emissions, Moisture Risk, and Overheating
Sneha Shroff
Cost of circular construction in New Zealand
Wanfeng Si
Architecture as a proto-organism
Judith Heshani Silva
Investigating the role of Urban Heritage sites in fostering Sustainable Urban Development in Sri Lanka: a Community-Centered approach
Ryan Simpson
Returning Samoa to a low-carbon built environment
Saikumar Singh
Transnational Identity & Faith-Based Consumerism: an investigation into pilgrim identities & faith-based hospitality architecture in 21st century pilgrim towns
Alexis Sutherland
Retrofit of Buildings for Flood Resilience and Adaptability
Jinyi Tang
Optimizing the Walkability of Streets in Age-Friendly Neighborhoods from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Sachithra Thilakarathne
Remote Work: Reshaping Physical Space in the Post-Pandemic Era
Johannes van der Wielen
Pushing the Envelope: Optimising building envelope design for the circular economy by quantifying the reutilisation prospects of building materials
Mengke Wang
Policy Impacts on the Spatiotemporal Evolution of Urban Villages: A Case Study of Zhengzhou
Ningfei (Shannon) Xiao
Healing Matrix
Qingqing (Stella) Yang
Bio-procedural 3D Printing: Applying Living Systems to Digital Fabrication for Symbiotic Architecture
Chengcheng Yin
Virtual Homelands: Examining the Potential of VR Landscapes to alleviate Homesickness for International Students
Xin Zhang
Enabling Digital Twin Cities to Better Support Social Dialogue on Urban Changes