Endemic Light

<p>This thesis explores endemic light and atmosphere through the shifting scales of three architectural interventions. These interventions are guided by site and theoretical research, providing justification for the notion of endemic light. This notion develops upon the concept of site specific architecture and place. It is the synthesis of site context – combining both ephemeral and phenomenological qualities to create engaging and evocative architectural experiences. Analysis of the Mackenzie Basin site established an overarching understanding of the atmospheric, physical, social and historical contexts of the area. Peter Zumthor, Steven Holl, Juhani Pallasmaa and Christian Norberg-Schulz provide key justifications for the theoretical investigation of light, atmosphere, and place; as well as ongoing precedence for the research through design process. This process explores three interventions, moving up in scale from an installation, to a domestic dwelling, and finally a public building. The installation operates at an interactive scale, exploring abstract concepts of condensing light within a space, through manipulation of light, colour and texture. The domestic scale expands on this research, developing condensed light and atmosphere at a habitable scale. Through designing for light and atmosphere the dwelling becomes a device for endemic atmospheric experiences in a domestic context. The final scale explores a public building in the form of a town centre for Twizel. This intervention adapts the notion of condensing light within interior spaces, instead exploring at an urban scale, intensifying them externally through courtyards and exterior building form. The thesis concludes, that successful and immersive architectural experiences are generated through strong ephemeral and phenomenological connections and engagement with site and endemic light.</p>

Endemic Light

<p>This thesis explores endemic light and atmosphere through the shifting scales of three architectural interventions. These interventions are guided by site and theoretical research, providing justification for the notion of endemic light. This notion develops upon the concept of site specific architecture and place. It is the synthesis of site context – combining both ephemeral and phenomenological qualities to create engaging and evocative architectural experiences. Analysis of the Mackenzie Basin site established an overarching understanding of the atmospheric, physical, social and historical contexts of the area. Peter Zumthor, Steven Holl, Juhani Pallasmaa and Christian Norberg-Schulz provide key justifications for the theoretical investigation of light, atmosphere, and place; as well as ongoing precedence for the research through design process. This process explores three interventions, moving up in scale from an installation, to a domestic dwelling, and finally a public building. The installation operates at an interactive scale, exploring abstract concepts of condensing light within a space, through manipulation of light, colour and texture. The domestic scale expands on this research, developing condensed light and atmosphere at a habitable scale. Through designing for light and atmosphere the dwelling becomes a device for endemic atmospheric experiences in a domestic context. The final scale explores a public building in the form of a town centre for Twizel. This intervention adapts the notion of condensing light within interior spaces, instead exploring at an urban scale, intensifying them externally through courtyards and exterior building form. The thesis concludes, that successful and immersive architectural experiences are generated through strong ephemeral and phenomenological connections and engagement with site and endemic light.</p>

Boden Black (A Novel) and With Axe and Pen in the New Zealand Alps: Differences Between Overseas and New Zealand Written Accounts of Climbing Mount Cook 1882-1920 and the Emergence of a New Zealand Voice in Mountaineering Literature

<p>This thesis has two components: creative and critical. The creative component is the novel Boden Black. It is a first person narrative, imagined as a memoir, and traces the life of its protagonist, Boden Black, from his childhood in the late 1930s to adulthood in the present day. The plot describes various significant encounters in the narrator’s life: from his introduction to the Mackenzie Basin and the Mount Cook region in the South Island of New Zealand, through to meetings with mountaineers and ‘lost’ family members. Throughout his journey from child to butcher to poet, Boden searches for ways to describe his response to the natural landscape. The critical study is titled With Axe and Pen in the New Zealand Alps. It examines the published writing of overseas and New Zealand mountaineers climbing at Aoraki/Mount Cook between 1882 and 1920. I advance the theory that there are stylistic differences between the writing of overseas and New Zealand mountaineers and that the beginning of a distinct New Zealand mountaineering voice can be traced back to the first accounts written by New Zealand mountaineers attempting to reach the summit of Aoraki/Mount Cook. The first mountaineer to attempt to climb Aoraki/Mount Cook was William Spotswood Green, an Irishman who introduced high alpine climbing to New Zealand in 1882. Early New Zealand mountaineers initially emulated the conventions of British mountaineering literature as exemplified by Green and other famous British mountaineers. These pioneering New Zealand mountaineers attempted to impose the language of the ‘civilised’ European alpine-world on to the ‘uncivilised’ world of the Southern Alps. However, as New Zealand mountaineering became more established at Aoraki/Mount Cook from the 1890s through to 1920, a distinct New Zealand voice developed in mountaineering literature: one that is marked by a sense of connection to place expressed through site-specific, factual observation and an unadorned, sometimes laconic, vernacular writing style.</p>

Boden Black (A Novel) and With Axe and Pen in the New Zealand Alps: Differences Between Overseas and New Zealand Written Accounts of Climbing Mount Cook 1882-1920 and the Emergence of a New Zealand Voice in Mountaineering Literature

<p>This thesis has two components: creative and critical. The creative component is the novel Boden Black. It is a first person narrative, imagined as a memoir, and traces the life of its protagonist, Boden Black, from his childhood in the late 1930s to adulthood in the present day. The plot describes various significant encounters in the narrator’s life: from his introduction to the Mackenzie Basin and the Mount Cook region in the South Island of New Zealand, through to meetings with mountaineers and ‘lost’ family members. Throughout his journey from child to butcher to poet, Boden searches for ways to describe his response to the natural landscape. The critical study is titled With Axe and Pen in the New Zealand Alps. It examines the published writing of overseas and New Zealand mountaineers climbing at Aoraki/Mount Cook between 1882 and 1920. I advance the theory that there are stylistic differences between the writing of overseas and New Zealand mountaineers and that the beginning of a distinct New Zealand mountaineering voice can be traced back to the first accounts written by New Zealand mountaineers attempting to reach the summit of Aoraki/Mount Cook. The first mountaineer to attempt to climb Aoraki/Mount Cook was William Spotswood Green, an Irishman who introduced high alpine climbing to New Zealand in 1882. Early New Zealand mountaineers initially emulated the conventions of British mountaineering literature as exemplified by Green and other famous British mountaineers. These pioneering New Zealand mountaineers attempted to impose the language of the ‘civilised’ European alpine-world on to the ‘uncivilised’ world of the Southern Alps. However, as New Zealand mountaineering became more established at Aoraki/Mount Cook from the 1890s through to 1920, a distinct New Zealand voice developed in mountaineering literature: one that is marked by a sense of connection to place expressed through site-specific, factual observation and an unadorned, sometimes laconic, vernacular writing style.</p>

Peculiarities of Tertiary petroleum systems evolution under prograding shelf environment on the continental margin of the East Siberian Sea

The upper part of the sedimentary cover within the East Siberian Sea shelf comprises Cenozoic clinoform deposits, which accumulated in passive continental margin settings. In the Eastern Arctic, the productivity of clinoform deposits has been proved on the Alaska North Slope and in the Beaufort–Mackenzie Basin. Considering that Cenozoic clinoform deposits are widely represented in the Russian part of the Eastern Arctic, they undoubtedly attract considerable interest from the standpoint of hydrocarbons prospecting. However, despite increasingly closer attention to this interval of the sedimentary section, it is still poorly understood due to its complicated geology. The lack of drilled wells in the region imposes a considerable limitation on an understanding of sedimentary basins development. In this situation, geophysical data become the primary source of information for building geologic models in the Russian sector of the Eastern Arctic. An assessment of hypothetical Cenozoic petroleum systems of the East Siberian Sea is the main objective of this paper. It is to be said research performed under high uncertainty of input data. The results obtained from basin analysis and numerical modeling indicate the possibility that an active petroleum system may exist in the Cenozoic sedimentary wedge of the East Siberian Sea. The outlook for the clinoform complex largely depends on the source rock maturity, i.e., higher prospects should be expected in areas where the prograding wedge has maximum thickness. Considering all factors (reservoir quality prediction, proximity to a hydrocarbon kitchen, timing), the Eocene–Oligocene part of the sedimentary section appears to offer the greatest promise within the study area. Here, predominantly oil accumulations may be expected at a depth of 2.5–3.5 km below sea bottom.