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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dc.contributor.authorFord, Laura
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-09T02:57:03Z
dc.date.availableNO_RESTRICTIONen_US
dc.date.available2010-08-09T02:57:03Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/1523
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectHouse prefabricationen_US
dc.subjectHousing design and productionen_US
dc.subject.otherFields of Research::310000 Architecture, Urban Environment and Building::310100 Architecture and Urban Environment::310101 Architectureen_US
dc.titleSurface 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 Zealanden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
massey.contributor.authorFord, Laura
thesis.degree.disciplineSpatial designen_US
thesis.degree.grantorMassey Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Design (M.Des.)en_US
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