Surface built : making the New Zealand home : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Design in Spatial Design at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
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2010
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Massey University
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The potential for prefabrication has been sidelined by the process of
the design>build>do-it-yourself model of building, maintaining and
updating houses in New Zealand. Working from an industrial design
perspective this research charts the possibility of a shift in home
construction from site building towards factory-manufacture. Mindful
of New Zealand’s creative, do-it-yourself heritage and personal rituals of
homemaking, this study explores domestic ritual and the iterative nature
of amateur home alterations. Just as we have the right to alter our own
body’s surfaces so too should the homeowner have the ability to alter
the surfaces and services they own and with which they interact. Flanked
by the design-to-manufacture model promoted by industrial design
and the emphasis on inhabiting and rearranging the home from spatial
design a hybrid notion of housing design and production is put forward.
Suggesting a product that deals affordably with the home’s surfaces and
services, within the customs of daily and seasonal acts of maintenance in
the home, offers an area of prefabrication that seems attainable for New
Zealand interior.
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House prefabrication, Housing design and production