Solitude in the city : the open cloisterResearch question: How can the adaptive re-use of a historic site in Auckland’s CBD, successfully house a monastic community to create a place of solitude?

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Solitude in the city : the open cloisterResearch question: How can the adaptive re-use of a historic site in Auckland’s CBD, successfully house a monastic community to create a place of solitude?

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This project develops a design for a Trappist monastery to be built within the Auckland central business district (C.B.D) area. This is an investigation into the opportunity of learning from various architectural cultures. Specifically, this project begins to investigate the selected monastic communities and the architectural principles related to them. These relevant principles are obtained and applied to a city context in New Zealand. The Trappist monastic order was selected due to the spir...

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2015

Creator

Gruber, K.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10652/3562

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Auckland (N.Z.) / Trappist monasteries / monastic architecture / breweries / Drake Street (Auckland, N.Z.) / adaptive reuse of buildings / architecture and space / New Zealand / Architectural Design / Architectural Heritage and Conservation

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