Architecture, Building and Planning - Theses
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ItemDecision making in landscape architecture: an examination of the notion of decision making during design review and its impact on design delivery for the Steampacket Place, Geelong( 2002)The aim of this research project was to examine the notion of decision-making during design review and its impact on design delivery. To achieve this aim, a multi award-winning project was selected to understand how decision-making influenced delivery of the project. The case study, Steampacket Place, Geelong, was examined to reveal, what criteria were employed to facilitate decision-making during the design review, and what were the responsibilities and capacities of design reviewers to influence the design delivery. Archival material for the project was used to construct a description of the events that led to design delivery. Focused interviews were carried out with members from the design review board and the project directorate to validate the archival data and to seek their opinions on the structure of the board and the design review process. The data was analysed to test the proposition that design review is about improving the quality of the physical environment and is a collaborative effort based upon shared communication between various groups and individuals to ensure that decision-making is a transparent process. This study describes how decision-makers worked with consultants to collaboratively develop and inform the design of both the public and private sectors. The success of the project owed much to the skills, professionalism and integrity of the Board members. Design quality was a key imperative for Steampacket Place and this was incorporated into the administrative structures created to manage both design review and project delivery.
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ItemTourism planning and community consultation in metropolitan Melbourne( 2002)This thesis explores consultation in relation to tourism plans and tourism aspects plans. It examines the extent to which councils involve the community in plan formulation, and the main methods used for the purpose. Community consultation and participation have been investigated by a number of authors. It is a topic that originated in the 1960s and its importance has grown enormously over the years. It has now become a pre-requisite for many projects. In the area of planning, consultation and participation are terms that are used almost synonymously. In this thesis the terms consultation and participation are both used to indicate the involvement of the community. This study evaluates the actual extent of community participation, from an assessment of the approaches of councils, to the points on the Shand-Arnberg Participation Continuum that the consultation methods reach. The study has a number of revelations regarding the people involved in the consultation process, cost and time factors, and the extent to which the community is actually involved in the tourism plans that are formulated. The literature on the subject has indicated that this process has a tendency to exclude the ethnic communities, low income and other minority groups. The trend so far has been to involve the middle class and the articulate groups that dominate a community. However, major findings of this study include that consultation is neither related to the demographic characteristics of society, nor the income of councils. The findings of this research have implications for both, the councils and the general public, and the way tourism developments are planned.
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ItemRisk management in construction: the extent of use of formalised risk management procedures in construction management project delivery systems in the Victorian construction industry( 1996)The aim of this research is to determine the extent in use of formalised risk management procedures, in construction management project delivery system, in the Victorian construction industry. This has been undertaken by surveying and interviewing a number of organisations that provide construction management services in this sector of the Australian construction industry. The research aims to gauge the use of these procedures from the construction manager's point of view.
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ItemRefutations and conjectures: prolegomena to the study of architectonic themes( 1995)An examination, in two parts, of aspects of contemporary architecture concerned with issues of history, meaning and the practice of architecture as a form of intellectual discipline. The first part investigates the work of Italian born American architect, Romaldo Giurgola, one of the last architects in the lineage of Louis Kahn still abiding by many of the latter architect's architectural philosophy. The range of his works, built and unbuilt, are examined and seen to take up important theoretical and social themes in American architectural culture originating from the Jeffersonian era. Through an analysis of Giurgola's writings and theoretical statements on a range of issues his work is shown to contribute to a continuation of the tradition of modern architecture. The viability of this tradition is questioned, in the light of both theoretical and socio-political deficiences. Four Questions is an ontological interrogation of the meaning of a series of thematic terrains held to be significant for the formulation of a viable contemporary practice of architecture: the Public, The City, The House and Theory. Through an analysis of these themes, the study highlights what is seen to be a major shortcoming in the discourse of contemporary architectural culture- a lack of awareness of its acutely historical situation. Each section theorizes issues of architectural representation and relates these back to a condition of modernity. On this basis, those current trends which aim to locate the meaning of architectural work either in the field of social commitment, in the formulation of new urbanities or in new domestic typologies are criticized for insufficient awareness of the conditional and problematical nature of such pursuits. The last section, an excursus on architectural theory, indicates that an important species of contemporary architectural theory- Deconstruction- is indicative of a general trend that seeks to put aside the difficult conditionality of architectural production in the contemporary situation. Architectural theory which aims to share ground with philosophical discourses is argued to have become too abstract. As an alternative, it is suggested that the responsibility of the architectural theorist and the practitioner alike towards a discursive endeavour is located in a search for an engagement of architecture with reality which does not, however, sacrifice intellectual probity or transgress the limits of an architectonic definition of this reality. The projects included in the folio explore the small margin still allowable within a practice of architecture that seeks to explore the full range of architectural expression whilst maintaining the above described conditions of intellectual probity.