New Build
A 5 dwelling multi-unit development, creating a simple and affordable housing scheme where previously one house stood. The development has a degree of complexity with the constraints of the small sloping site. The design provides north facing living and private decks to all units. Clad in a palette of dark brick, E-span and cedar with the intention of ensuring each dwelling is identifiable.
New Home
Housing Award Winner 2019 Gisborne/Hawkes Bay Architecture Award Winner
The Housing Award winner solves a complex brief, accommodating home and a busy business in a “series of intimately scaled spaces that open up in the best places and in the best ways to celebrate family life and beachside living.”⠀
Alteration
New Home
The house sits nestled into the hill overlooking Rona Bay orientated in such a way that captures the surrounding hills to the north and frames the views west towards the sea.
While the clients were growing into a new phase of life without children it was important that the living spaces felt connected, open and welcoming. This strong exterior grid is transferred inside and separated into a private master suite, circulation and living connected to large glazed doors that slide to expand the space the outdoors.
New Home
The owners enjoyed camping, and the scheme started with stories of tent fly's and caravans. The early sketches picked up these themes and developed a scheme on a steep site with a modest budget. The project has a simple legibility, forming two wings book ending a central mono pitched roof opening to a courtyard behind. The suspended dark oxide concrete floor provides an effective heat sink to the north facing glazing.
New Home
Publicised in 50+ Vacation Homes and Home + Entertaining NZ
Awards: 2005 NZIA Local Marlborough & Nelson Resene Award
New Home
Publicised in Houses NZ and Green Living
Awards: 2009 NZIA Local Wellington Architecture Award
New Home
Publicised in Houses