https://p-a.nz/mahara-gallery daily 0.75 2016-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460956253436-XMEY5BA5G361WCB4LGL8/Through+Gap+Looking+South+FINAL.jpg Mahara Gallery and Waikanae Library - Mahara Gallery and Waikanae Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460956253436-XMEY5BA5G361WCB4LGL8/Through+Gap+Looking+South+FINAL.jpg Mahara Gallery and Waikanae Library - Mahara Gallery and Waikanae Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1456101957946-BAOU13QYWKFUE5T53C1X/image-asset.jpeg Mahara Gallery and Waikanae Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460955849011-DQGTT9FDL6ZNMDVBT2BG/Gallery-3D-Section-DRAFT.jpg Mahara Gallery and Waikanae Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460956076584-AOZW11WMV2DLMCRI2VR4/Mahara+Place+Looking+North+FINAL.jpg Mahara Gallery and Waikanae Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460956166677-ZXJZS10HXAYHVB07NOJU/Carpark+looking+South+FINAL.jpg Mahara Gallery and Waikanae Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460956282740-OA4ZK9QGP1Z23QE5CG30/Towards+Library+looking+EastFINAL.jpg Mahara Gallery and Waikanae Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1456102505382-ZS23VFOTY3TQUM19HHYM/image-asset.jpeg Mahara Gallery and Waikanae Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1456187185753-JOGIIFXWXRBF4OMTL62O/14.JPG Mahara Gallery and Waikanae Library https://p-a.nz/index daily 1.0 2026-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460674460756-4GA9I7NSOU82UDEKPIK2/VIEW+FROM+QUAY.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460667032698-A5IM0PXX2LNOFM6M0WRJ/86AS9401_RT8+copy.jpg Home - Mitika Apartments 2004 The building contains seven large apartments, one per floor and each with 270 sq.m floor area and 50 sq.m of decks. The developer made the inspired decision to fit in one less floor than other neighbouring buildings of the same height. This allowed a generous stud height of 2700mm per floor with 3200mm for the top floor. Decks and living spaces are along the wide frontage, facing north out to the harbour and hills. By tilting the kitchen, main bedroom and ensuite at 45 degrees , these rooms gain views to the sea past the side of the neighbouring building and yielded an unusual zigzag hallway. There is a subtle geological reference in the concrete cladding on the east facade to shifting, folding, interlocking plates. Similarly the balconies relate to the harbour with their horizontality, openness, shape and tongue & groove soffits. Awards: NZIA Local Award 2004, NZIA New Zealand Award 2005, NZIA Property Council Merit Award 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460601367985-MXPKF3VVL9SDLXW7V3PO/PP59.jpg Home - Zinc House 2014 The house is perched on a steep hillside overlooking the harbour and comprises three levels plus garages that connect from the street to the expansive gardens and public park below. Research into fluid dynamics influenced by the harbour catchments led to studies of straight lines flowing into curves and vice versa and these were used to derive the plan and cross sectional forms of the upper levels of the house. The walls of these areas are clad in vertically seamed zinc, which provides a regular rhythm unifying the forms and helping to relate the scale to its context. Existing double storey garages were re-clad and connected to the new house with high-level zinc walls punctuated with openings that extend across a covered outdoor terrace. This space enjoys early morning and late summer sun. The curving zinc walls enclose the house offering privacy from the street. The sculptural form has a weight and austerity but attempts to provide a welcoming invitation upon arrival. The interior itself is open and light filled with generous glazing and decks overlooking the harbour. These harbourside decks are supported on zinc-clad columns that rise out of the bush below and weave past the black stained vertical timber clad forms of the lower levels. Photographer Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460687750810-Q3Y3HXOJSVLPGFX8JHM9/Treadwell15.jpg Home - Tutere Beach House 2011 The house is in Waikanae, a small verdant sea side town on the Kapiti Coast 45 minutes north of New Zealand’s capital city Wellington. It is in the old beach area of Waikanae where many of the houses are holiday homes or ‘baches’ built from the early 1900’s onwards. This house is a holiday retreat for a Wellington couple and their 3 children. The site is a narrow strip, which sits behind a high fore-dune towards the beach. The house is designed as a ‘dune hopper’ with the single open-plan living space sitting on top of the bedrooms and peering out to the sea and Kapiti Island beyond. The house references the fibrolite sheet construction used in many of the 1950’s houses nearby with colours drawn from the seaside location. Photography - Paul McCredie Download Home NZ article Awards: NZIA Local Award for Architecture 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1461041929901-B6OW1LCIUKCI68WR4C8Q/F8169.jpg Home - Pekapeka Beach House 2008 This holiday home was allowed us to explore creating a building of strong architectural character and economy. We have used simple modular construction techniques combined with a very simple form. The plan is a rectangle and is divided into 3 parts, the solid bedroom forms at each end support a floating roof over the living space in between. This layout allows the living room to face both east to hills and west to the sea. It allows sun into the house throughout the day, for passive solar heating of the concrete slab and creates a sheltered outside space on the east side that still keeps a strong connection to the western sea views. Download Houses NZ article Photography - Simon Devitt Awards: NZIA Local Award for Architecture 2010, NZIA Resene Colour Award 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460692107735-PDQE1686X5A2AJHS5A52/A1769.jpg Home - Martinborough House On approach a rurally influenced corrugated iron wall runs away and turns 90 degrees to contain the arrival space. The main roof glides over this leading into the house. The house sits long and low in this large and multi-layered landscape. The dark corrugated iron walls blend with the dark lines of Macrocarpa shelter planting in the distance. The definition between inside and outside is blurred by the continuity of floors and terraces and the roofs hovering or gliding lightly across the plan. Photography - Simon Devitt Download Houses NZ article Awards: NZIA Local Award 2005, NZIA New Zealand Award 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460690317214-GTZ3ILYJGZGT31SMLM7J/Koro23.jpg Home - Korokoro House 2014 The house was designed for a family of 6 with children of varying ages. It sits on an elevated site with expansive views over Wellington Harbour to the south and a narrower view down to a green valley at the lower end of the Belmont Regional Park to the north. The owners were attracted to the site because of the different views, outdoor area and connection to green space. Because of its elevation and location, the house is hit by both the southerly and northerly winds. We created an ‘H’ shaped plan containing both south and north facing outside spaces that are sheltered in different winds and sunny at different times of the day, connected through the very glazed central living room. The north facing outdoor area is excavated into the hillside so that when planted it will both filter and deflect the wind over the top of the house. Bedrooms are positioned in a variety of different ways to pick up the different aspects of view, with 2 children’s rooms at the east end of the house located around an activity area as extra living space. There are 2 main wings to the house with a split-level between. To the west, bedrooms sit over the main living areas and to the east, bedrooms and smaller living space sit over the garage. Further to the west across the lawn is a guest house which in the future will become connected to the house with landscaping. Each wing of the house is wrapped in a corrugated colorsteel sheath in the form of a roof that extends down the east and west walls and meets over the link-way joining the 2 wings. The owners have a strong interest in colour. Together with the clients we have explored brighter colours in the living spaces and more subtle natural colours in the bedroom areas. Photography - Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1513486975555-8IK00O6MTK967K4OI654/Fisher18.jpg Home - Korokoro Bush House 2016 The house sits at the end of a narrow road, perched on a steep hillside, looking down a bush-clad valley to the Korokoro Stream with views out to Wellington Harbour through a V in the hills. It is two storied with bedrooms upstairs and living spaces below. A covered walkway steps down beside the garage leading to the front door with diagonal views out to the north facing deck, lawn and hills beyond. From the entry, passage through the house follows the line of the hillside in a procession of gentle steps down to the main living spaces, that look over the valley and wrap around a private north facing deck. The house is designed as a private and peaceful retreat with colouring and materials that comfortably sit amongst the verdant surroundings. In contrast the garage door becomes like a lantern lighting up at night. Photographer Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460671715785-8GS8VEYT8BWXFC9XPC1F/IMG_4167.jpg Home - Parsonson Architects Studio 2008 The original 2 storey building was designed by James Bennie in 1916 and is now historically listed. It has been many things in its time; originally part of a larger picture theatre and more recently a video production suite with restaurant and bakery below. The new work involved conversion of the upstairs into two studios and work to the facade of the building. The original building is brick masonry and was restrengthened in the 1980's with a series of interior steel portals. The original Victorian facade was extremely elaborate and joyous but in the 1930's this was stripped off to a more pared back semi-art deco style. A bull nosed verandah was added in the 1980's to complete somewhat of a historical potpourri. The new facade references James Bennies original design. Our approach for the main studio spaces was to strip back the interiors and add skylighting to allow the buildings natural loftiness to be felt and the resulting spaces to be open and light filled. New elements have been added in a way that allows the existing building elements to be expressed individually. The composition of the circulation spaces hopes to abstractly reference the histories of the building. Pivoting hoop pine plywood shutters filter the light into the West facing studio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1487631166136-IDVVXJ7SYJXZC9LE0HG8/Ruby29.jpg Home - Ruby Bay House This is a small-medium 3-bedroom house sitting along a southward sloping hill, looking east across Tasman Bay. A ‘T’ shaped plan is wrapped around a northwest-facing courtyard allowing views through the house to the sea. The property is a generous size and there is opportunity for the owners to flesh out the gardens, and to further add pergolas and verandas to the east and west sides to soften and shade outdoor spaces. There are 4 distinct elevations to the house defined by the roofing material wrapping down both the north and south elevations. These are without windows to provide privacy from the road, the neighbour to the north, which gives the house a simple sculptural quality. The location of windows focuses views to the sea to the east, and to the mountains and hills to the west. Photographer Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460666055554-RLHO93CXNIZXOQVRMECW/Apple20.jpg Home - Apple Bay Beach House 2009 This holiday house sits on a west facing hillside in a bush clad bay in the Marlborough Sounds. We intended to create a delicate platform amongst trees for life to unfold. The house is in two parts, each with a fine roof that follows the lie of the land. The upstairs living areas are one large space with decks at each end to enjoy both the morning and afternoon sun. Downstairs bedrooms float amongst the trees with windows opening across the tree tops. Awards: NZIA Local Award for Architecture 2010 HOME magazine article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460696814338-RNTIX258BC0NPQAWKJA6/Seaview10.jpg Home - Sea View House 2012 The site sits just below the road facing east, looking across the botanical gardens out to Wellington Harbour. The new house accommodates a large family of different age groups over 3 levels, with parents and younger children’s bedroom upstairs, older children’s bedrooms and a swimming pool on the bottom level and a variety of living spaces in between on the middle level, laid out to capture views and all day sun. Two main gestures set up the structure of the house; outer sections of pitched corrugated iron roofs wrap and frame the house, these fit within the building envelope and create a relationship with the existing houses of the area, while a flat roofed lightly shaped wooden clad element running between the pitched roofs houses the garage, bedrooms and pool. The relationship between these two gestures creates varying geometries and spaces with differing characters, materials and levels of light. Download Home NZ article Photography - Paul McCredie Awards: NZIA Local Award for Architecture - 2014, HOME Magazine Home of the Year Shortlist 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460689145463-3DKA8NFJII6184RZD3FS/parsonson-gibbs2.jpg Home - Eastbourne House 1998 This house is about life in the trees - creating a delicate platform amongst them to view the harbour and enjoy the birds and the sun. It has a natural spirit that is part of this special setting. Procession through the house has a sense of unfolding. From below, the house is a heavy, linear wall that retains the forest behind. Entry through this wall and upwards allows the forest and harbour to be viewed and the house to lighten and unfold. The roof of the main level has been separated from the walls on all four sides to extend the sense of lightness, upwardness and delicacy of connection. This main level becomes a viewing platform with the views seen through either the slender beech trunks or fine members of the building. To achieve this delicacy of form, the structure of the main level is made up of 9 portal frames running along the land contour with joinery and wall panels becoming infills between. Awards: NZIA Local Award 1999, NZIA Regional Award 2000, NZIA Colour Award 2000, NZIA National Award 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1522024588158-U6IKZ40U6XQB3PMC0D8D/TeHoro14.jpg Home - Te Horo Bach 2017 Is a small (87m2) bach for a family of four. A retreat, located an hours drive north of Wellington on wild and beautiful dune-lands in a newly developed coastal subdivision with large section sizes. It is a small economically planned fibro and batten clad building that has its design roots partly in the NZ bach tradition, with an explorative use of form, colour and material. As part of the subdivision rules there was a limited colour palette available. We went beyond this with additional colours added to the sides of the exterior battens, that aren’t apparent when the façade is viewed straight on. The variations of colour are drawn from detail in the local environment. The plan is bookended by 2 bedrooms with the living space in the middle, opening both east and west allowing access to decks, sun and shelter from the prevailing north-westerly coastal winds. To create a subtle intimacy in the in the open plan living space, it is laid out in a pinwheel pattern creating diagonal spatial flows with the ‘L’ shaped window seat and joinery diagonally opposite the kitchen. The section is easy care with native grasses and plantings and the lawn areas cut in for cricket and parking cars. HOME Magazine article Photographer Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1558747312862-AWVCYRT6YUBG1S5ZVNI7/Hotel3-ps+dark.jpg Home - Gilmer Apartment Hotel The project involved alterations to an existing apartment hotel, creating a more co-ordinated street presence, new exterior and interior signage and the re-imagining of the internal circulation and stair areas (excluding the main lobby and reception). The mish-mash of existing signage, upper metal gantry and entrance cover were removed to simplify the exterior and reveal more of the spirit of original concrete mid 1900’s building that first occupied the site. A new veranda with integrated signage was also added. The existing long skinny corridors, that had similarities to 1950’s health institutions, have been left unchanged spatially with the same doors etc in the same positions, but the space has been altered and expanded visually with the use of plywood, mirror and painted ‘portals’. The combination of darkness and reflectivity and rhythms derived from human proportions ensure that walking along these is more of an experience than just getting from A to B. Photography – Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1487631623736-Z2ANTF33X4FPPV1K9HRW/McClelland1.jpg Home - Mangakuri Bach The project is made up of 2 simple buildings, a small bach and a separate garage/carport with 2 basic bedrooms above. The buildings are constructed economically, clad in weathered cedar and fibre-cement. They sit amongst established planting on this barren and often wild coast. The place is a retreat, humble and simple with a large variety of places to sit inside and outside at different times of the day and night. An outdoor room faces east with views through trees to the sea and a pergola covered terrace sits to the west soon to be covered in Bougainvillea. There is a sunny north facing deck, Juliette balconies and a deck on top of the outdoor room off the bedrooms to survey the coastline. Photographer Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460927219873-XVE951K89NUEMWKFEQ1X/7+QUIGG_0607.jpg Home - Salamanca House 2006 This site was subdivided from the original property which contained an existing house designed and lived in by the Government Architect John Campbell in the early 1900’s. It is historically listed and we were therefore keen for the new house to be lower and more subservient in its appearance to the original house while at the same time relating to it formally. There were many restrictions on the property. The site was tight and relatively steep, the combined properties could not exceed the 50% inner residential site coverage and the new house was required to fit within all sunlight recession planes. The resultant dwelling fully utilizes its site. Space for the bedrooms and garaging was excavated below, forming a base to the lighter living spaces above. The roof is clad in zinc and is cut and folded cleanly to focus views out to the harbour and diagonally to the trees, while at the same time providing a sense of enclosure and privacy. Download Houses NZ article Photography - Patrick Reynolds Awards: NZIA Local Award for Architecture 2007, NZIA New Zealand Award 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1582413456678-88KB38DYB0UTBDJIKGQM/Herald1.jpg Home - Herald Garden Studio 2019 This small, standalone structure sits at the Southern end of a 243m2 property in Berhampore. The existing house is a compact two bedroom Victorian cottage and is occupied by a couple and their two young sons. The new Studio is designed to provide flexible additional space for children’s play, a place for peaceful retreat, study or overflow accommodation. Whilst it is separate to the house at the end of the rear yard, it is visually connected and linked by sheltered outdoor space. The main space of the Studio faces north, with a bathroom and storage area at the rear and a mezzanine sleeping / play / storage area above. Both the deck, pergola and the main interior space have been conceived as one triangulated structure, stitching together the spaces and reinforcing the interior-exterior connection, while relating to the delicacy of the surrounding vegetation. Materials are unadorned, raw and but carefully assembled. Sustainability: This project is an example of urban infill on a tiny scale, allowing a family to live on a small property close to the city without having to move further afield. The structure and internal linings are made from entirely wood. Linings are zero formaldehyde ‘Strandboard’ finished in natural WOCA oil. Download Green magazine feature Photography - Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1611378314985-UV7H9NXKE19KL5NLIZBV/AP3157-PS.jpg Home - Lakeview House 2019 The house sits on a large, gently sloping piece of land at the edge of Lake Hawea and was built to replace an existing cottage, which had been a lakeside crib. It was designed for the family returning home to their Otago roots, following an extended period living overseas The house is laid out in two wings along the length of the site oriented to the mountain views in the same way as the original cottage. The lower wing contains the living, dining and kitchen spaces, two bedrooms and service areas. The upper wing contains guest bedrooms sitting on top of a long tandem garage, partly excavated into the ground. The two wings are linked by an entry space with sheltered gardens each side. Although the house is spread out along the site, its extent is never visible in its entirety. The sloping wall and roof forms refer to the mountains and roofs of older lakeside homes and help arrange the house into different sections. The higher haunches of the southern roof are only just visible through established vegetation from the street and the north side roof is lower slung ensuring that the house isn’t visible from the lake edge. Exterior materials consist of zinc roofing, stained cedar and charcoal coloured aluminium, which help the house merge into its surroundings. The house faces northwards towards the lake and the floor levels step down towards the lake following the slope. The raking ceilings and eaves are arranged to allow views from deep within the plan outwards and the interior is composed of a simple palette of stained oak flooring, white painted walls, black metal and Okoume plywood ceilings. These simple materials reference the richness of the old fishing cottages that are still found dotted around the area and provide a backdrop for the owner’s wonderful and extensive collection of art and furniture. A covered terrace to the south of the living space flows west out to a lawn and a large deciduous tree that the family picnic under in summer. This area enjoys the late west sun and provides cover in winter for outdoor cooking and living, and shelter from the northerlies, with views to the lake through the house. Sustainability Statement: The house is large, but designed to provide spaces that are zoned, can be ventilated, heated and cooled to suit the unique Lake Hawea environment efficiently with minimal energy input and low carbon emissions. The house is laid out for passive solar gain and to create places to sit in the sun. The roofs slope down to the north with eaves sized to screen the high summer sun and let in the lower winter sun and orientated for future solar panels. A layout with windows and doors across opposing sides of the main living spaces allows for natural cross ventilation, and flexibility to suit different weather conditions. The house is highly efficient in terms of heating and insulation. The plan layout and heating system are in 3 zones - the upstairs, the bedrooms and the living areas. When there are no visitors a sliding door closes off the upper bedrooms and heating turned off. A double heat recovery ventilation system allows ventilation on cold damp winter days or when the house is closed up. Heating is via pump fed wall mounted and in-floor radiators. The fireplace is NZ tested to maximise heat and minimise emissions. Insulation levels far exceed the standard code requirements. The roof has deep rafters and a separate packed cavity to allow 2 separate perpendicular layers of insulation ensuring an unbroken blanket minimising gaps and cold bridging from rafters. All south facing walls are also treated as the same roofs. Standard walls also have insulation levels higher than code and the concrete perimeter is polystyrene block with 100mm under-slab insulation. Windows frames are thermally broken with double-glazing. All timber is FSC certified timber and interior wood finished in a natural WOCA oil. Photography – Simon Devitt Awards: NZIA Southern Award for Architecture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1582406695413-1YXBUJZPMHCZS5PCUVRE/Beaglehole10.jpg Home - Vera House 2020 This compact house in Karori was designed for a single woman and sits on a small, elevated subdivided rear section, behind an existing villa with neighbours all around. It enjoys views over the neighbourhood to the hills to the west. The completed property is ‘easy care’ and the house efficiently planned to work to a restrained budget and to suit the compact site. It is laid out in an ‘L’ shape around a small, sunny outdoor courtyard, fringed with small gardens and a screening fence. The main Bedroom and the second bedroom / study are at the east end, with the main bedroom also looking out over the courtyard. The owner has a love of contemporary NZ art and of the outdoors, and our consideration of these has driven much of the design. The house is mainly seen on approach from the driveway, where it appears as two folded bands of dark corrugated iron cladding with bush green coloured fibre-cement panels in between and sections of woody coloured stained cedar fencing and slatting. Garden planters are integrated and dotted around the property to provide easy care greenery, softness and edible gardens. By contrast the interior is bright and light with areas of interior joinery made from sheets of laminated bamboo. A variety of different wall areas have been created to suit different types of art, these include smaller spaces with less light to suit watercolour paintings, larger brighter areas for acrylics and oils and plinths and shelves for both small and large sculptures. Balustrades and fencing are made up of a combination of corrugated iron and slatted cedar, providing privacy and to provide layers of wind shelter. The ‘L’ shaped plan allows for a variety of diagonal views and good solar penetration to the spaces around the courtyard. Sustainability Statement: A new house on a subdivided rear section creating greater urban density. Spaces arranged around a north facing courtyard to maximise passive solar gain. Air tightness wrap in ceiling to create a more airtight skillion ceiling. Light coloured roof to stay cooler in hot weather. Bike storage in laundry. Pre-wired for future solar. Timber structure minimising steel elements. Interior joinery is made from sustainably produced bamboo. Two emergency water storage tanks located at the rear of the house. Photographer: Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1613343383556-U444XJSREMFZR70I0360/Churton3-PS.jpg Home - Long House 2020 The house is located in a large new suburban subdivision in Churton Park, Wellington, on a long and slender site located between the road and a planted valley reserve containing the beginnings of the Porirua Stream. The overall subdivision consists of mainly kitset and building company housing, finished in shades of cream, beige and grey, waiting until planting grows tall enough to soften it. The Long House plan responds carefully to the local landscape, site and weather conditions. Prior to purchase and construction, time was spent on site with the owner discussing the different possibilities. The valley to the west of the house is reserve land and has been substantially planted, which will continue to grow and provide a beautiful green outlook into the valley. The house takes a different approach to most of the bulkier 2 storied houses nearby, where it is more related to the forms of the land, being long, low and slender, with colours and materials selected to relate to the local natural environment. Long horizontal lines and fine layered verticals reinforce this. The slender plan allows light into spaces from both sides and the long axis of the site is orientated slightly west of north, which sets the plan up for morning and afternoon indoor and outdoor living areas facing both east and west in the middle section of the house, allowing occupants to follow the sun throughout the day. The prevailing wind is channelled down by the hills from the northwest making the sheltered east facing morning courtyard a comfortable and well used space, being close to the kitchen with views through the house to the west. On the more exposed west side the courtyard is sheltered by a wrap around glazed screen and covered partly glazed roof, more used as an outside in the cooler winter months. Garage and service areas are located at the south end of the plan with bedrooms to the north. This is a single storey 2 bedroom retirement home with study, with subtle changes in floor level responding to the site contours. The owners had previously lived in a 1070’s Gordon Moller designed home, which used a palette of natural timbers and red-brown colours, which have been brought into the new house. Sustainability Statement: The house built predominantly using materials with low carbon footprints, apart from the concrete slab and metal roofing. The structure is made of mostly timber, with minimal steel. Exterior cladding is Western Red Cedar, interior trims Eucalyptus Saligna and ceilings Okoume plywood. Walls are 140mm thick to allow R4 insulation, and the ceilings are double layered with R5 insulation. Windows have Low E glass and the concrete slab is insulated underneath and with perimeter insulation. It is designed to operate as a heat sink, collecting and storing heat during the day and releasing it in the evening. The roof form is arranged to allow morning sun in and offer outside areas with flexibility to suit different weather conditions. Eaves are shaped and sized to mediate the north and west sunlight throughout the year. The long slender plan allows for generous natural cross ventilation and cooling. Heating is via an in-slab hydronic heat pump powered system. All timber is FSC certified timber and interior timbers are finished in natural wood oils. Photography – Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1619655218735-GI0NIOC359C6KXVJ9VNN/Court22.jpg Home - Seatoun Heights House 2013 The house sits on a steep site above Seatoun Heights Road, perched above the harbour. The owners were attracted to the property because of the spectacular views and the existing established vegetation. The bedroom level is excavated back into the hillside forming a base to the upper more, open and light, living level. The bedroom level undulates in and out, allowing light in and views out, giving each bedroom a different character and aspect. Clad in dark vertical corrugated iron it anchors the form into the site and is intended to develop a relationship with the established trees. The lighter form of the living level above flows across the bedroom level wrapping around an existing small flat lawn and garden to the northwest of the house. The floor level steps down towards the lawn and allows views back through the house and out to the harbour beyond. Photography - Paul McCredie Awards: NZIA Local Award for Architecture 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1645736370123-71XKBEPLY81HE50MC9ZA/Goldblatt31.jpg Home - Field Way Bach 2014 This small holiday bach looks over the dune tops to the Esplanade Reserve in Waikanae. It was designed for a family who have owned the property for more than 30 years. An uninsulated 2 storey cabin was altered, insulated, reclad and extended. We were keen not to add to the collection of existing suburban houses here, but to build in the bach spirit, to create a dwelling that was playful, relaxed and dealt with the unique conditions here practically. A holiday home to enjoy all year round. Download Home NZ article Photography – Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1645736700178-B9HIIIC1RN5BWQE0GRDU/Hutch1.jpg Home - Wairau Valley House 2010 The property is located in the Wairau Valley, 10 minutes from Blenheim and close to the Wairau River as it snakes along the edge of the northern hills, a patterned rural landscape of farms, orchards and vineyards. The house has a strong connection to the land spatially and materially. There is a sense of encampment, where different interlinked pavilions offer different areas of occupation and privacy or openness. The spaces are housed beneath low sloping gable forms where boundaries are blurred between the land and building. Heavy lined concrete walls and structures feel part of the land and are used to define indoor and outdoor spaces. The gable roofs float over these to provide shelter and the comforts of home. The landscape is cultivated; lines of orchard trees and vines mark the land in regular patterns and the house responds with the lines of pergolas and posts ready for planting to integrate the house with the land further still. Photography - Paul McCredie Awards: NZIA Local Award for Architecture 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460951019251-64WFEBR3KNJKNWZ5D6ZD/_0003811.jpg Home - Manly Street Beach House 2000 This is a beach house for a family of five. It was intended that the house create a story of passage from suburbia to the beach and the horizon beyond. From the street the house appears as a slightly adhoc arrangement of separated forms, with fibre cement sheet boxes anchored to the ground and lighter forms floating around the side, leading to the beach. The living area is a raised pavillion from which to enjoy the hot summers and views of the sea. Metaphors related to the location are threaded through the design. These are present as you pass through or stay in the house, adding a resonance that is not necessarily fully discovered. DWELL article HOUSES article Photography - Paul McCredie & Matthew Williams Awards: NZIA Local Award 2001, NZIA New Zealand Award 2001, NZIA Supreme Award 2001, NZIA Resene Colour Award 2001, Home & Entertaining Home of the Year Winner 2001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1629525023484-OGZHZLJ54WBNGM62F82L/PittSt01.jpg Home - Footsteps Pre-school 2021 Footsteps is designed for the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Palmerston North and located on a large site in a central commercial/retail area, backing on to a local primary school. The pre-school occupies half the site with car parking and garden areas the other half to the north. Different to the ‘big box’ retail outlets nearby, which sit behind large carparks, the building has been pushed to the street edge to be more engaging to passers by. The project was built to a relatively tight budget and is based around a prefabricated Coresteel gabled shed structure with a section of roof raised at the street edge to mark the buildings presence. Coloured panels and vertical rhythms are used to accentuate this and guide visitors into the building. Carefully placed circular windows allow the children to engage with activity in the street and vice versa. Circular motifs, playful colours and rhythmic detailing punctuate what is fundamentally a simple shed. Entry to the pre-school angles in on the diagonal, offering views across indoor and outdoor play spaces before arriving at the reception. Once inside areas are divided into under two’s and over two’s. The main volume is the over two’s indoor play area, which has attached service spaces, kitchen and bathrooms running along the south side, with a large covered indoor/outdoor area to the north that can be closed off in bad weather, flowing out to generous outdoor play areas. Flexible, functional and playful furniture has been developed with a quest for economy. Tables are cut out in different shaped sections of melamine coated plywood mounted on standard legs, allowing for users to create varying combinations of shapes depending on activities. Large drainage pipes are cut and joined together to make bag storage areas and climbing holes. Landscaping - Philip Smith, O2 Landscapes. Photographer – Paul McCredie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1677115445548-T738T7SSASHRI104NE6S/DST-PAR-PARKAVE-0223-4644.jpg Home - Veil House 2021 Is a multi-generational family home located in Takapuna, spanning three levels with a garage situated underneath. The bedrooms are located upstairs, offering stunning views of the sea and Rangitoto Island, while the living areas are located downstairs. A self-contained family flat can be found between the garage and upper bedrooms. The floor level is designed to follow the natural slope of the land, with beams supporting the upper level leading out to the rear garden. The kitchen and living spaces surround a large outdoor covered room that opens onto the sunny rear garden and pool area. Living spaces are nestled into the garden. The base of the building is constructed with concrete block and timber, which is then covered with a brick skin. The upper levels are wrapped in timber cladding and slatting, providing both privacy from neighbours and unobstructed views. The slatting above the family and outdoor living areas offers shade during the day and creates patterns of shadow and light that change throughout the day. The colour palette is mostly calm, with bright accents appearing in the joinery, artwork, and furniture. Sustainability is a priority in the construction of the Veil House. The structure and exterior cladding are primarily made of timber, with steel used for larger spans and openings. Insulation levels exceed standard code requirements. The house is equipped with a large 10kW array of solar panels on the roof, with excess energy being used to heat a large hot water cylinder, which acts as a battery. The remaining energy is fed into the grid with provisions made for future battery and electric car connections. The bedrooms have heat recovery ventilation, ensuring fresh air and comfortable temperatures year-round. Additionally, a 30,000-litre water storage tank is located under the garden, collecting rainwater from the roof for exterior taps and the swimming pool. A large electrically operated vertically sliding double hung sliding window in the entry space providing good ventilation, pulling in cool low garden air and releasing it out the top on hot days. Photography - David Straight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1551328769575-OJCKM4C95UF5P7AISY54/HH13.jpg Home - Ostrich House 2018 This rural house sits atop a windy hill with panoramic views over Wellington and beyond. Being only 15 minutes from central Wellington it has been envisaged as a hybrid city-country house - somewhere to retreat to but still be connected to city life. The form of the house was developed to both reflect the rugged, hilltop landscape and to create a sheltered courtyard for relaxed indoor-outdoor living. The site had been partially levelled by a previous landowner and the new house is positioned to make the most of the flat area whilst the roof form, in an abstracted way, re-completes the form of the hill to provide protection from the prevailing Nor-Westerlies and using the hill to the South for protection from the cold Southerly coming in over the Cook Straight.The roof form is exposed inside as a skillion ceiling, adding a sense of dynamics and movement to the interior spaces, highlighted by the use of Okoume plywood on the ceilings and continuing out into generous eaves with slatted wind and sun screens at their North-East and North-West extents offering protection form the elements. The planning with the house wrapped around the courtyard allows parents and children to have their own wings, meeting in the more public shared spaces around the courtyard and opening to the North and East decks and lawns. Connections between inside and out are expressed through the repetition of the cedar cladding as interior wall linings, broken by floor to ceiling glazing giving glimpses between. SUSTAINABILITY : The house was designed to allow for passive solar gain in winter with generous eaves and slatted sunscreens to control heat gain in summer. Passive heat from the suns energy is retained through sections of exposed concrete floor and internal block walls and contained with Low-E argon filled double glazing and thermally broken window frames. The passive solar gain is maximised by a full plywood under skin assisting with air-tightness and with the use of a heat recovery ventilation system which allows for the house to be kept entirely closed up on cold windy days, while maintaining comfortable and healthy indoor air quality, with minimal heat loss. Timber floors and cedar cladding are oiled and zinc on the exterior provides a long life low maintenance envelope. Rain water is collected and an onsite septic system uses Tiger Worms to reduce solids by approximately 95%, reducing harmful bacteria and other pollutants. Photography: Paul MCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1644648823837-RIE13RKKGO12UD591WWK/IMG_1802.JPG Home - Hinau Street House + Apartment 2021 The property is located on a corner site in Eastbourne, in an established seaside area set one block back from the beach, with the bush clad Eastbourne hills forming a backdrop to the east. The brief called for 2 dwellings, a main house and a 1 bedroom apartment-studio, with the layouts balancing different considerations: • Many existing trees on the site were retained, with the building located amongst these. • Beautiful views, down Hinau St to the harbour, along Maire St to the north and the hills to the east were maintained. • Spaces in both dwellings allow occupants to follow the sun throughout the day, with outside areas that are sheltered from the rain and the different wind directions. • To perch the apartment-studio on the upper level at the south end creating a bridge to enter the house under and allow views to the harbour and good all day sun for the apartment as well as the main house, rather than arranging two townhouses side by side. The apartment and garage help form a narrow sheltered boardwalk leading to the main house, which opens out to a small semi-enclosed courtyard beside the front door. The apartment deck is adjacent to the street and outdoor living areas of the main house, but angled aluminium louvres filter this softly, creating privacy with semi-enclosure while preserving views and allowing light and sunlight in. The property sits between the bush covered hills and the harbour, where dark colours and vertical rhythms are used to reference this. Landscape planting pulls endemic native species from the hills into the exterior spaces around the house, which are mixed with more suburban species. The house also responds to the seaside context, with light blue exterior panels, coloured gates, and casual planning with openness to the exterior, including a bathroom with outside access and outdoor shower. Sustainability Statement: The house is built predominantly using materials with low carbon footprints, apart from the concrete slab and metal roofing/cladding. The structure is made of mostly timber, with minimal steel. Some exterior cladding is Western Red Cedar, interior trims Eucalyptus Saligna and ceilings and joinery Okoume plywood. Walls are 140mm thick to allow R3.2 insulation, and the ceilings are double layered with R6.3 insulationto truss roofs and R3.6 to skillion. Windows have Low E glass and the concrete slab is insulated underneath and with perimeter insulation. The roof form and plan are arranged to allow morning sun in and offer outside areas with flexibility to suit different weather conditions.Eaves are shaped and sized to mediate the north and west sunlight throughout the year. The long slender plan allows for generous natural cross ventilation and cooling. Heating is via an in-slab hydronic electric air to water heat pump powered system. The house is pre-wired for future installation of solar panels after the contract. All timber is FSC certified timber and interior timbers are finished in natural wood oils. Photography – Paul McCredie, Paul Brandon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1666295771765-41YAYWIIGEGGZ10A0YXY/DST-PAR-TAUPO-1022-6862.jpg Home - G House 2021 This lakeside home in Taupo sits on a flat sunny site looking west across the road to the lake. It is a holiday retreat and meeting place for a Hamilton couple and their extended family. The site is long and narrow and the house is slightly raised and laid out to enjoy great lake views, while at the same time seeming private inside. There is a main living space that also opens through to a morning deck / barbecue area at the rear. There is a generous downstairs bedroom and an upstairs bedroom and multi-purpose space with deck and pergola. The house is thermally high performing with air tightness layers and heat recovery ventilation, requiring very little heating and remains warm and comfortable through Taupo’s seasonal temperature differences. Completed: 2021 Photographers – David Straight, Paul Brandon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1552093835782-QKCX6GC2GBG6NC22LMR1/DST-SALAMANCARD-1118-7525.jpg Home - Salmont Place 2018 The site straddles Salamanca Road and Salmont Place on the edge of Wellington’s Botanical Gardens, with wonderful views east across the city to the harbour and west to Tinakori Hill. Two generous sized single level dwellings were fitted into the retained 2 storey concrete structure of the 1950’s house that occupied the site. The upper dwelling is accessed from Salamanca Road and the lower from Salmont Place with a 12m height difference between the 2 roads. The lower dwelling requires steps up from the road and a lift from its garage to provide access. The dwellings are laid out so that main living spaces enjoy views across the city and harbour and generous sunlight. There are good connections to the different outdoor living areas, while still allowing for privacy between the interior and exterior spaces of both the dwellings. The plan of the living spaces is ‘bent’ northwards to allow later afternoon sun into both levels and to direct views. The upstairs dwelling has a ‘winter garden’ facing the harbour, which is an inside/outside space fringed in an upstairs outdoor garden protected with slender vertical green and permeable Kaynemaille screens. It can be opened up in different directions depending on the sun and wind conditions, providing a manual way of regulating the temperature of the house. The dwellings share an outdoor clothes-drying area on a half level between both units. The original 1950’s house was built in a modernist style and there is mix of eras in the housing in the nearby streets. We have taken a similar approach to the original house by using a flat roof, which is sloped up to the west to lift the eye up to the views of Tinakori Hill from deep in the plan. This has resulted in a dwelling that is low slung, horizontal and low key from Salamanca Road, and tall and vertical from Salmont Place. SUSTAINABILITY: The apartments have been designed using high levels of insulation, an air-tightness wrap behind a services cavity within the wall and ceiling constructions, along with a heat-recovery ventilation system minimising heating requirements while maintaining comfortable and healthy indoor air quality, with minimal heat loss. Thermally broken double glazed joinery helps to further minimise heat losses. The spaces have been carefully planned to benefit from passive solar gain, while Kaynemaile screens and extended eaves help to control unwanted heat gain through shading in summer. The winter garden in the upper apartment is used as a heat regulator, connecting to the internal spaces or opening up to the outside to naturally ventilate the interior. Significant concrete structural elements from the existing dwellings were able to be retained and incorporated within the new dwellings, minimising construction waste and reducing the embodied energy required for the new construction. Corrugated profiled zinc was used on the exterior to provide a long life, low maintenance envelope. Houses NZ article Photography: David Straight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1695779915089-3KMASRQZE97IO8RM9J0K/Screenshot+2023-09-27+at+10.54.28+am.jpg Home - Mixed Use Building 2022 This long thin rectangular building sits in the centre of the Shelly Bay development, overlooking the slipway and village green. The ground floor consists of 10 multi-purpose spaces with mezzanines, ideal as small work units, garaging, galleries or studios. On top of this are 2 levels containing 18 low cost and 2 premium apartments, with the upper levels having lofty mezzanine spaces. The building addresses the street with an arched brick colonnade. Triangulated forms reference the original Shipwright Building and maritime influence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1703211204385-5HLTKVUIR1M8UYYNF7JW/Parsonsons.SW.Whitby.040.jpeg Home - Manuka Retreat 2022 This is a family home in the Wellington suburb of Whitby, sitting amongst manuka forest and overlooking a relatively undeveloped bush filled valley. The owners were inspired by this setting and wanted a home with spaces that nestled amongst the trees. The house faces predominantly north and west and there is a nice mix of enclosure from the trees and openness to enjoy the sun and the distant views. The house is two storied with garage and bedrooms above with living areas below, which are laid out in an elongated form across the land contours. There are a variety of living spaces providing flexibility for family life and connection with the property throughout the different times of the day. The main kitchen-dining-family area has a morning sun snug that looks up the hill, doors that look north and west and a dining nook-window seat area facing west. A separate evening living space opens out to an outdoor room and fire tucked into the tall trunks of the manuka trees. The house is predominantly clad in dark coloured metal that relates to the surrounding landscape. This darkness is offset by fibre cement panels and vertical timber elements. Photography – Simon Wilson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1461024526392-EMB5RBH5CE7RFEFD6JWL/Gregory29+copy.jpg Home - Shoal Bay Bach 2009 Shoal Bay is a remote settlement on the rugged east coast of southern Hawkes Bay. The building is designed to be part of the rural setting, raised off the ground and sitting beside the original woolshed, which has served the bay since the early 1900's. The bach is rugged yet welcoming and offers unpretentious shelter, it is the type of place where you kick off your shoes and don't need to worry about walking sand through the house. The bach is formed of two slightly off-set pavilions, one housing the bedrooms and the other the main living space. Decks are located at each end of the living pavilion allowing the sun to be followed throughout the day. Sliding screens at the north-west end provide adjustable shelter for the different wind conditions, offer privacy from neighbouring campers and act as walls for outside sleeping. Photography - Paul McCredie Download Home NZ article Awards: HOME magazine - Home of the Year Finalist 2009, NZIA Local Award 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1710292782927-7SX309HWQR6NCXCDR33M/R5_AE9535-PS.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1674780758733-E4EGY6VLOPS2K4JT3EOF/Thomas+Seear-Budd+HI4A6010.jpg Home - Sar Street 2022 By making a small number of considered interventions, this 1920’s bungalow has been altered to accommodate the living needs of a modern family with young children. Earlier insensitive alterations had removed all period detailing and located the kitchen in the middle of the house leaving it inward facing and closed off. Parsonson Architects were engaged to make the house more liveable, bring in more natural light, improve the houses interior climate, to create a connection to the exterior and capture the great harbour views. The position of the kitchen and dining areas were shifted so that they flow out to a paved exterior courtyard, with laundry and toilet located in the middle of the house. The alteration is cohesive in the way it brings the spaces together. The simple palette of materials and textures compliment the period of the house whilst creating the perfect backdrop for modern family life. The painted timber vernacular style is celebrated with detail added in a modern and considered way, detailed carpentry references the materials used in these early 20th century houses. Simple refined joinery helps define the spaces. Photography - Thomas Seear-Budd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1742345039181-E3BZ6RHR063XI8HYOR45/DonStalteration_Entry_PaulMccredie_1.jpg Home - Don Street Alterations 2024 This home, located in Wellington’s southern suburbs, was originally a 1920s bungalow with a fragmented layout. The kitchen and dining room were at opposite ends, separated by bedrooms, making it impractical for a modern family of four. Over the years, various modifications had diluted the home’s original character, leaving it inward-facing and disconnected from natural light, views, and the backyard. The renovation reimagines the space to suit contemporary family living. A more cohesive floor plan enhances natural light, improves the home’s interior climate, and strengthens its connection to the outdoors, distant views, and afternoon sun. The kitchen, dining, and living areas were relocated to work harmoniously and now flow seamlessly onto a new west-facing deck. Bedrooms are positioned to the east, while the laundry and bathroom sit centrally. A simple yet thoughtful palette of materials and textures respects the home’s heritage while providing a timeless backdrop for modern family life. The traditional painted timber vernacular is celebrated through carefully considered details, with refined carpentry referencing early 20th-century craftsmanship. Subtle, elegant joinery defines the spaces, balancing period character with contemporary functionality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1644984028962-EPLSR1PXBPN4MSOWXH8P/Craggy10a.jpg Home - Tukituki House 2021 The house is situated on a spacious site along the gentle lower slopes of Te Mata Peak, bordering the Tukituki River. It sits on old river terraces, where the rich, fertile soil was a key attraction. The owners, passionate gardeners, wanted a family home for themselves and their two children. Their vision included a pool for hot summer days, a covered outdoor room, and ample space for large trees and productive gardens. Designed to blend with the landscape, the house follows the natural contours of the land, gently stepping downward beneath a long, single-pitch roof. Entry from the driveway is through a covered walkway beside the garage, leading into the main living areas. These north-facing spaces open onto a partially covered outdoor room overlooking the pool. The living areas are oriented east, north, and west to maximize natural light and connect with sheltered outdoor spaces. The upper living room extends westward, offering a framed view of Te Mata Peak through the bare branches of driveway trees in winter. At the heart of the home is the kitchen, dining, and family area, seamlessly connected to the covered outdoor space. A separate TV/den caters to the children and can be closed off with large sliding doors, while the upper living area serves as a retreat for the parents. The bedroom wing runs north to south, positioned at the eastern end to capture the morning sun while a large eave provides shade during the hotter months. The house is clad in dark-stained horizontal cedar weatherboards, echoing the deep tones of the surrounding landscape and nearby Andy Coltart houses. White panelled elements introduce a contrasting rhythm reminiscent of traditional farmhouses, much like a magpie’s distinctive markings. Sustainability Statement: The house is built predominantly using materials with low carbon footprints. The structure is made of mostly timber, with minimal use of structural steel elements forming the roof. The majority of exterior cladding is Western Red Cedar, interior trims are a mixture of Pine and Eucalyptus Saligna and ceilings and joinery are predominantly Okoume plywood. Walls are 140mm thick to allow R4 insulation, and the ceilings have R5 insulation. Windows are double glazed and the concrete slab is insulated underneath and at the perimeter. Areas of the concrete floor are left exposed and are designed to operate as a heat sink, collecting and storing heat during the day and releasing it in the evening. The roof form and plan are arranged to allow morning sun in and offer outside areas with flexibility to suit different weather conditions. Eaves are shaped and sized to mediate the north and west sunlight throughout the year. The plan shape allows for generous natural cross ventilation and cooling. Heating is combination of electric radiators and a woodburner. Rainwater is collected and stored, greywater is separated for reuse for watering gardens and blackwater is treated using a vermicomposting system and discharged on-site. Photography – Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1738208280760-YURB0S4VS52HYIV38WWQ/CP06A.jpg Home - Lee House 2023 The house is situated on a semi-rural property near Wellington City, nestled between main arterial routes and close to suburbia. The steeply sloping site is surrounded by mature trees, and local planning regulations required that the dwelling remain hidden from nearby public roads. To accommodate this, an area of pine trees was cleared at the center of the sloping forest, where the house now sits, elevated on timber piles to create a sense of ‘floating in the trees.’ The owners envisioned a simple two-bedroom home with a garage, a small studio for guests and family, and a roof deck to take in the surrounding trees, views, and sky. Designed for efficiency, the house, studio, and garage follow a straightforward rectangular layout. The flat ceiling is edged with a timber rainscreen parapet, which also serves as a boardwalk leading to the roof deck. The main living area features a north-facing ‘winter garden’ conservatory, offering a sunlit indoor-outdoor space usable in all seasons and weather. Both the house and studio entries are slightly recessed, a step down from the main floor, creating a defined entry space with seating, a mirror, and storage for shoes and coats. The interior follows a minimalist palette of white walls, birch ply joinery, and black accents, including window frames, for a clean and simple aesthetic. Sustainability Statement: The house is built using predominantly using timber structure with minimal use of steel. Walls are 140mm thick to allow R3.2 insulation, and the ceilings are double layered with R6.3 insulation to truss roofs. Windows have Low E Heat pumps provide space and hot water heating with additional electric underfloor heating, combined with a ‘heat transfer system’. The owners have found the house very warm in winter and rarely use any heating. The long thin north-south plan orientation allows sun into interior spaces throughout the day in and offers outside areas with flexibility to suit different weather conditions. The slender plan also allows for generous natural cross ventilation and cooling. All timber is FSC certified. Photography - Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1666125300697-9VDQDBQRC0RAO47MFQ50/spain+3.jpg Home - The Garden House 2019 Located near Wellington’s Botanical Gardens, this home sits on a relatively narrow site. The original house was demolished down to its basement garage, which was retained and reused along with the existing Rimu floorboards. A new two-story dwelling was built above, featuring one bedroom and two studies. The design centers around a private, north-facing courtyard, bringing sunlight into the living spaces and creating a peaceful outdoor retreat. The main living areas also enjoy views of the Botanical Gardens across the road, while the rear rooms overlook the living spaces and courtyard, maintaining a connection to the landscape. Designed to showcase the owners’ extensive collection of furniture, art, and midcentury light fittings, the house also prioritizes thermal performance. It features airtight construction and heat recovery ventilation, ensuring warmth and energy efficiency with minimal heating requirements. The exterior is clad in softly stained vertical cedar, harmonizing with both the existing structure and the surrounding greenery. The sloping roof follows the site’s natural incline, making the house appear understated and almost hidden when viewed from the Botanical Gardens or the road. Landscape Architects: Local Photography: Paul McCredie, Andy Spain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1715835032274-G303Q1GAIK7S5OBUUYV0/Riversdale56.jpg Home - Riversdale Beach House 2022 In 2019, a Wellington couple purchased this property to create a holiday home for themselves and their children—a welcoming retreat for extended family and friends. They wanted a home that was easy to lock and leave, with ample storage and spaces that worked well for both intimate family stays and larger gatherings. Understanding the dynamic weather at Riversdale—both stunning and rugged—they sought a design that balanced shelter and openness. The house features an L-shaped main level that wraps around a sheltered, north-facing courtyard, seamlessly connecting to the main living space and bedroom. Beneath this, a flexible, openable undercroft serves as a garage, storage area, or games room. On the far side, with separate access from the main house, are two additional bedrooms, a bathroom, and the main laundry. Riversdale Beach Resort was established in the 1950s by Basil Bodle, who envisioned a vibrant, European-style retreat filled with colour, flags from different nations, and flower-lined streets. While much of that original charm has faded—aside from the street layout, a few original homes, and bright dune flowers—this new house aims to capture a touch of that playful spirit through its shape and colour. Photography by Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1692766709183-MY7U97D81Z9K0CZI15Z6/Ruby.Bay.606.jpeg Home - The Lookout 2023 Perched above Ruby Bay in Tasman, this house extends dramatically to the south, seemingly floating as it delicately rests on two anchored columns—creating a striking approach on arrival. Designed as a protective shell, the house features a weathered steel rainscreen over painted cladding, with expansive openings that frame breathtaking panoramic views. Generous overhangs and louvered screens provide shade and shelter from the sun, wind, and rain, ensuring comfort throughout the seasons. Accessed via a stair from the driveway below, the house follows a rectangular plan, with bedrooms to the south and living areas to the north. Positioned high above the sea, it offers sweeping views west to the mountains, south to the rolling hills, and east across Tasman Bay. The structure is embedded into the site, with exposed concrete block walls providing both retention and bracing. These solid elements contrast with the delicate Douglas fir posts and beams of the main living space, which is warmly lined with Okoume plywood. At the top of the stair, a hallway leading to the bedrooms serves as a vibrant color-box, with reds and oranges echoing the hues of the spotted gum floors. Photography - Simon Wilson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460594415742-MZ3ZADOQ3IJPV38NQ7HS/9666_Loretta.jpg Home - Loretta Restaurant 2014 Loretta, located directly beneath our studio, is the 'little sister' of Floriditas Cafe just a few doors down Cuba Street. Originally built around 1910, the space has served various purposes, including as an arcade to a picture theatre and most recently as a commercial bakery with a small cafe facing Cuba Street. During the renovation, the space was stripped back to reveal elements of the original building, while also creating a connection to Swan Lane at the rear. New elements were carefully added to contrast with the existing textures and materials, enhancing the natural, earthy food offerings and the Paul Melser earthenware. The long, narrow space is divided into distinct zones, each offering different spatial qualities. Steel screens filter views, creating a sense of intimacy while accommodating up to 120 diners. Photographer – Jeff Brass Awards: URBIS magazine - Best Restaurant Interior 2014 INTERIOR Awards - Hospitality Category Winner - 2015 Eat, Drink, Design Awards Finalist - 2015 NZIA Local Award 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1744251690797-VB6VS3P2IEGO1XA0ZI4L/OrientalBay22a.jpg Home - 108 Oriental Parade The building comprises three apartments above a parking garage and entry space. The uppermost apartment, spanning two floors, serves as a spacious home for the owner, featuring large north-facing decks with expansive views over Wellington Harbour. Below, two separate three-bedroom apartments occupy the lower levels, providing rental accommodation. To integrate with the surrounding neighbourhood, the building’s form is intentionally broken into distinct sections, each clad in different materials. This approach allows it to harmonize with both the smaller-scale houses and the larger buildings nearby. Photography - Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1742348943048-W34NIOZ5Z2XGQJ5J2H7Y/Zavos+-+Pirie.jpg Home - Zavos Corner 2015 This medium-density housing development is situated on a compact 564 sq.m corner site in Mount Victoria. It features eight apartments—one two-level unit and seven single-level units—spread across three stories, with a distinctive clock tower marking the street corner. The complex is built above an in-ground car park. The building is designed around a north-facing open space that includes both public and private courtyards at ground level. Each apartment maintains a visual connection to both the street and this central area, while private living and outdoor spaces are filled with natural light and offer a variety of views. Rather than appearing as a traditional housing complex, the design aims to evoke the feel of a small village, fostering a sense of connection with the surrounding Mount Victoria community. Construction is intentionally simple, using light timber framing clad in corrugated iron and plastered concrete panels. Indoor-outdoor connections are highlighted through projections on the façade, enhancing privacy and comfort for residents while giving the building a distinctive presence on the street. Download Home NZ article Photography Jeff Brass Awards: Civic Trust Award 2015, Home of the Year Award 2016 - Multi-unit winner, NZIA Wellington Award 2016, NZIA New Zealand Awards in both the Multi-unit and Interior Architecture categories. Winner of the NZIA Sir Ian Athfield Award 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1556152457721-5SV79F1YPQUQ209H3Q0V/Footscray2.jpg Home - Footscray Cottage 2018 There were 4 identical historically listed cottages in a row in Footscray Avenue in central Wellington. The most northerly of the cottages was mostly destroyed by fire and years of neglect. After much negotiation with the WCC and Heritage NZ a new cottage was built in place of the old one, giving resolution and new life to the area. The exterior matches the original cottages exactly and the interior is laid out similarly, with 2 bedrooms to the south and living space to the north, but with the addition of a multipurpose loft area that can function as a study or overflow bedroom, and with a small private west facing courtyard. The resulting living space isn’t large, but feels generous, sunny, lofty and light. Effort was made to build to modern codes for central city housing, acoustic separation, high levels of insulation etc while still appearing as a turn of the century cottage. Photographer Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1774308092193-8WZC0PK6DYTLK7WMT7JW/View+H.png Home - Wakatipu House 2025 Set in a forested site above the lake with views to Cecil Peak, the brief called for a robust, thermally efficient family home that supports comfort, wellness, and restoration. The plan is organised around a central courtyard and a large entry/multi-purpose space, with generous volumes and strong connections to the surrounding landscape. A planted green roof spans both levels, formed over an arched concrete structure. Its soft curves embrace the spaces below while echoing the natural forms of the landscape. https://p-a.nz/housing-1 daily 0.75 2025-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1747965741982-1Q9G76HMQA8BJRZEN9UF/mosaic.jpg Multi-unit - LEE HOUSE AND STUDIO 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1733884735133-Q70C9I5UYY9ACOAICG4N/mosaic.jpg Multi-unit - 108 Oriental Parade 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1747965741982-1Q9G76HMQA8BJRZEN9UF/mosaic.jpg Multi-unit - LEE HOUSE AND STUDIO 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1733884383359-7JHB92E7R5SUECZTWP0R/mosaic.jpg Multi-unit - 108 Oriental Parade 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1744251273881-QWQMXDPJ4SZTEP9BY164/mosaic+2.jpg Multi-unit - 108 Oriental Parade 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1675223455744-BF3DLC77M2ZAJI5HHTM8/thumbnail-3.JPG Multi-unit - Hinau Street House + Apartment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1552094312562-BWT08RH93AGWO6YAFO9I/link+screen.jpg Multi-unit - Salmont Place Apartments 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1695779957568-PR5OQZ35ERRLW66IEDE2/Mosaic+MU.jpg Multi-unit - Mixed Use Building 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460599723290-SCIRB1I8BN12FKP1Y5UC/zavos.jpg Multi-unit - Zavos Corner 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460952110132-CUCEDQPBATR7Z2DM5SGP/7482%2B-%2BZavosCnr.jpg Multi-unit - Zavos Corner Apartments 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460952152012-CLUVA9PD3INL2UYBXPG5/000002.jpg Multi-unit - Mitika Apartments 2004 https://p-a.nz/culture-1 daily 0.75 2022-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1629264191679-7XY57EL7NJNE3CR2IKIJ/link.jpg Community - Footsteps Pre-school 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1629264191679-7XY57EL7NJNE3CR2IKIJ/link.jpg Community - 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Loretta Restaurant 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1581309066769-657SEIL8H5VM1342OE0Y/Dundas24.jpg Commercial - Dundas Street Lawyers 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1558749190641-MSVWE0K8LLUU25S6BC3X/mosaic.jpg Commercial - Gilmer Apartment Hotel 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460942762148-QGIZSRBO4RQY0GJJXD5X/Picture%2B001.jpg Commercial - Icebreaker Retail 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460671919227-X55VF1J4TO9N3A3OL01J/p-a-thumb.jpg Commercial - Parsonson Architects Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1522030342057-LVL0ZQJV87HDA8DPOBDE/AlpHero18+reduced.jpg Commercial - Alphero Offices 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460674610834-OSGTLF4ABMPRSW9V128Z/kumutoto-thumb.jpg Commercial - Kumutoto Site 9 https://p-a.nz/house-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1774308713785-VMS8XX5CZ9IQKAATVGXO/mosaic.png House - Wakatipu House 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1774308491294-ZJZS20AOQ9I4802LOB55/mosaic.png House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1774308713785-VMS8XX5CZ9IQKAATVGXO/mosaic.png House - Wakatipu House 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1734645898172-S5O854WZAAER1GCDFSB4/mosaic.jpg House - Lee House and Studio 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1710292126124-UKIGEVZN96FJBRRKOYPQ/mosaic.jpg House - Sar Street House 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1692768004418-8UVIOU76HX3CWNP1R3SU/mosaic+-+Lookout.jpeg House - The Lookout 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1703212151583-6OXIBCAXH5BS1FCNST0W/link+pic.jpeg House - Manuka Retreat 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1644984005224-GK7DFTU8TXBUJBI12W9P/Craggythumb.jpg House - Tukituki House 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1677121173429-R2NUE59N0HW3YFK5N4K9/DST-PAR-PARKAVE-0223-4644.jpg House - Veil House 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1644649332672-MJPGE33ZGJZHZ2PANZ8U/thumbnail.JPG House - Hinau Street House + Apartment 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1613342709591-84Y1SIKO4TWDZBPXKE6G/thumbnail+small.jpg House - Long House 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1695777947106-1GVEPXXCFRGA461SJWZ9/mosaic+H1.jpg House - Tree Houses 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1582408805094-HZA8MZJLC1PV5GD2EWT1/Beagle+link.jpg House - Vera House 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1695778823833-JR6TVT4NNU841IHMQLAK/Mosaic+H3.jpg House - Commanders House 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1760648011673-U63E33EW8Y4LMVK9ZXM0/link+screen.jpg House - Lakeview House 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1582414101688-JSF2H5SG238WQBRPHYZR/Herald-link.jpg House - HERALD GARDEN STUDIO 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1675823916298-CP9VLGQX4HV5UEN4GNL3/thumbnail-3.jpg House - The Garden House 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1552094921074-TDL1XVQKLQDL3ZTS0XKV/link+screen.jpg House - Salmont Place 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1461314885509-ZYYH08W31QQEPRM0RRXP/Screen+Shot+2016-04-22+at+8.41.44+PM.png House - Francis Bell House 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1551330164857-66U8P6CWVIDGNDMXGTKW/mosaic.jpg House - Ostrich House 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460938657975-7EFM8HRDLJWDY08ONSKJ/Court6.jpg House - Seatoun Heights House 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460943535391-OWFX0NNYNJ7P642KQBSW/Screen+Shot+2016-04-18+at+1.17.57+PM.png House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460887544316-QKILL0K4CZZ5ZWXQ7A44/PP59+%281%29.jpg House - Zinc House 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1513487412089-HWEQRAFPD0GYYWTYFVBG/link+screen.jpg House - Korokoro Bush House 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1487635689641-NFEBXTUMO4QCGPPHCSRD/ruby-bay-house.jpg House - Ruby Bay House 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460887027927-9WE92RFCVLRK2US36SDG/Koro23.jpg House - Korokoro House 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460939560810-A0YXZXUKLLINA06XNM3Z/Seaview10.jpg House - Sea View House 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1461292238871-3HDJ2LL4TZZYT0V16OSN/Povey11.jpg House - Lowry Bay House 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460939486686-PJ0XSATT2VNXM3HIT5B0/Hutch1.jpg House - Wairau Valley House 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460927867408-KSQ0YPEHAARX21JTV5DG/salamanca-thumb.jpg House - Salamanca House 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460886188307-NI2DNGRKT17VWL0QQ63H/A1756.jpg House - Martinborough House 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460886323294-8I2D32LBVLSE2VWDY03V/F1000005.jpg House - Eastbourne House 1998 https://p-a.nz/yeosu-competition daily 0.75 2016-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460685673099-THA3IDQCNN6UCRCIN0UE/EXTERIOR.jpg Yeosu Competition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460685673099-THA3IDQCNN6UCRCIN0UE/EXTERIOR.jpg Yeosu Competition - Yeosu EXPO Competition Entry 2009 Competition entry for Thematic Pavilion, Expo 2012, Yeosu, Korea. Learning from the natural processes and geometries of South Korea’s ocean coast habitat offers the seed for a new kind of sculptural and ecological architecture. Nature’s organic ocean geometries are the inspiration for the ‘OCEAN FOREST’. The Ocean-Forest concept is based around an architecture of fluid flows between vertical six sided info-tubes, which provide islands of stillness within the flow – and encourage people to slow down, pause and absorb information. Thus each tube acts as an information processor – or information tube. Each info-tube is assembled from a series of 3 meter high modular hexagonal components to form a tower. Each tube, just like a coral polyp is made up of lower, and upper components. All vertical circulation, service ducts, services, water harvesting and re-cycling are housed within the info-tube structures. The top of each tube also forms a natural chimney for hot and cool air circulation and natural lighting down to lowest level, while the canopies catch and harvest water run-off for toilets. All roof canopies are covered with integrated solar panels to power efficient LED digital screens and lighting. In association with Chris Moller Architecture + Urbanism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460685677574-0ZM3X4FTP73YCEGQGNNH/INTERIOR.jpg Yeosu Competition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460685681452-4WTRNRY727YXV6HN2NDD/P1_R1_from_breakwater_peopled.jpg Yeosu Competition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460685700062-UHRYL1U9L33DDF6MHDTQ/PLAN.jpg Yeosu Competition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460685708542-93WX1XHSHDTI79K2EG5O/ROOFSCAPE.jpg Yeosu Competition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460685708896-DJMPV9HX9MW7YT7TEKVA/SECTION.jpg Yeosu Competition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460685721472-EWCVI05LTKCOUBZ2Y34O/SITE+PLAN.jpg Yeosu Competition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460685722204-75GAEFRS1WNYRECT5SCH/AXONOMETRIC.jpg Yeosu Competition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460685725438-4IVGSRG1XB8144V99KA8/diagramme+1.jpg Yeosu Competition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460685726733-ELCKNUQY10URUJO0TFD7/ELEVATION.jpg Yeosu Competition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460685729769-19QHXBOEZSE27IEVZQ2J/ELEVATION_part.jpg Yeosu Competition https://p-a.nz/hospitality-1 daily 0.75 2016-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460943110370-PUQ7I971HT0RGQIEM649/9666_Loretta.jpg Hospitality - 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Apple Bay Beach House 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460608433858-JUT0LCP0IE4241WXKH1V/apple-bay-thumb.jpg Holiday - Apple Bay Beach House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460930837190-YEIE4RZHAFR6XU0TSR5L/RAUMATI%2BHSE_6865.jpg Holiday - Raumati Beach House 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460930685741-0NCU86IPD0WC40J59O05/Screenshot%2B2016-04-14%2B16.23.13.jpg Holiday - Pekapeka Beach House 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460930891284-6UL13V5G6Z0R7BYYS3YP/Gregory48%2Bcopy.jpg Holiday - Shoal Bay Bach 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1652334297984-JUOAVAJ6ZH67XISNKBK7/1+copy.jpg Holiday - Paetawa Bach 2001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460678590726-K2GS1680RHLQ7KU4YY85/manly-thumb.jpg Holiday - Manly Street Beach House 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460929600054-NH1AJOSPKCYMX8YS95ZM/8.jpg Holiday - Manly Street Beach House 2000 https://p-a.nz/greytown-house daily 0.75 2016-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460691043563-CRH4MH049R40E441TY8D/2.jpg Greytown House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460691043563-CRH4MH049R40E441TY8D/2.jpg Greytown House - Greytown House 2008 After retiring from life on a farm our clients requested a new house for a lifestyle block on the outskirts of Greytown. The house was conceived as two sheds running parallel to each other and relating directly to the standard building company storage / work sheds. The house sheds are eroded and broken down and appear like spaces created through the ground surface being pushed up. Lines of the landscape carry through these spaces from east to west. These lines are emphasized with the decking extending through to the flooring in the intermediate spaces along with hanging pergolas. The horizontal planes of the Wairarapa are further emphasized with the hanging pergolas and terracing creating strong horizontal lines in the large landscape. A dark Corrugated iron was chosen for wall and roof surfaces to relate to the storage / work sheds and provide a direct reference to typical NZ rural buildings. Awards: NZIA Local Award 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460691045120-0XGZB08ZN5DD2LHD74PP/1.jpg Greytown House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460691050181-BMNCGYC32I2OLUZ5QAYD/3.jpg Greytown House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460691053606-3PYLQJG7P9SEY0C5A915/4.jpg Greytown House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460691056562-XWIQAJ5DTB0YROS2TN6D/int+1+adjusted.jpg Greytown House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460691053542-I9OCA9SD72YCZE93N3V8/GREYTOWN6.jpg Greytown House https://p-a.nz/francis-bell-house daily 0.75 2019-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460689808845-1ZHU5V4DXTDG6L9IPPQZ/Francis+Bell+House+9.jpg Francis Bell House - Francis Bell House 2011 The site is located in Eastbourne, a seaside suburb situated across Wellington Harbour from Wellington City. Layers of hills surround the harbour on two sides creating a varied and interesting topography. The property is steep and borders a large area of native bush reserve and is only accessible by steps and cable car. It sits high above the other houses in the area and is surrounded by bush and birdsong. The house is composed of two extruded forms. The upper level is kinked to follow the contours of the hill and contain a sheltered upper garden and lawn. The lower level is a rectangle, following the contours at first then cantilevering out to the view. The point where these two forms separate creates the entry courtyard punctuated by a chimney. The strip like forms are accentuated further by the use of dark corrugated iron cladding and lines of windows and green fibre-cement, which ensures the house is folded into and sits discretely in its setting. The roof of the living level below forms a large deck for the upper level, a generous outside space floating in an amphitheatre of bush. Photography - Parsonson Architects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460689808845-1ZHU5V4DXTDG6L9IPPQZ/Francis+Bell+House+9.jpg Francis Bell House - Francis Bell House 2011 The site is located in Eastbourne, a seaside suburb situated across Wellington Harbour from Wellington City. Layers of hills surround the harbour on two sides creating a varied and interesting topography. The property is steep and borders a large area of native bush reserve and is only accessible by steps and cable car. It sits high above the other houses in the area and is surrounded by bush and birdsong. The house is composed of two extruded forms. The upper level is kinked to follow the contours of the hill and contain a sheltered upper garden and lawn. The lower level is a rectangle, following the contours at first then cantilevering out to the view. The point where these two forms separate creates the entry courtyard punctuated by a chimney. The strip like forms are accentuated further by the use of dark corrugated iron cladding and lines of windows and green fibre-cement, which ensures the house is folded into and sits discretely in its setting. The roof of the living level below forms a large deck for the upper level, a generous outside space floating in an amphitheatre of bush. Photography - Parsonson Architects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460689775145-BGL5WIK9TJ3QP4XQQJVC/Francis+Bell+House+1.jpg Francis Bell House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460689842722-T6VM46RO3GXYCYIZ2QIF/Francis+Bell+House+16.jpg Francis Bell House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460689813244-4TOERQV4TWHOAV23938U/Francis+Bell+House+10.jpg Francis Bell House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460689841277-QD9UDNRQI63T3P8XHU77/Francis+Bell+House+15.jpg Francis Bell House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460689828729-N26LFII62L8312FL0LVU/Francis+Bell+House+14.jpg Francis Bell House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460689820669-G7B8QUV68RU6TVZ8SD7F/Francis+Bell+House+11.jpg Francis Bell House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460689787223-2SWE6PZGBR2BLMOTYSX4/Francis+Bell+House+2.jpg Francis Bell House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460689779466-UGAPPYIP99T786SJ4LQR/Francis+Bell+House+3.jpg Francis Bell House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460689799953-G5TYLPJRP9F3BW1BVY6A/Francis+Bell+House+7.jpg Francis Bell House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460689794836-HOBRUES2DKNR7LJY2B8K/Francis+Bell+House+6.jpg Francis Bell House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460689803990-PVMSENHKOR1AEWK6AV2V/Francis+Bell+House+8.jpg Francis Bell House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460689790197-0N2275LEAJ9LKA67EOUF/Francis+Bell+House+5.jpg Francis Bell House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460689821095-9FMK7MWTPYML0OBMK4VU/Francis+Bell+House+12.jpg Francis Bell House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460689827920-34720AKSNBQ4T5FQMOAE/Francis+Bell+House+13.jpg Francis Bell House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460689785509-1367OCGM488K3F4PZQ8N/Francis+Bell+House+4.jpg Francis Bell House https://p-a.nz/townsend-house daily 0.75 2016-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460930944983-KET4TVMD275FF1L8CVB3/north-exterior.jpg Townsend House - Townsend House 2001 The property is a subdivided section facing west with views across Miramar and glimpses of the sea and harbour. The house has open living areas upstairs with 3 bedrooms below. It is laid out to exploit the views and sun with a feeling of space and built to a modest budget. The lie of the roof relates to the surrounding bungalows and the house is set into a slight cut in the contour. The east section of the house is high walled, visually anchoring the house into the site. The west section of the house is cut and stepped with the roof lightly gliding over at the same angle as the land contour. Awards: NZIA Local Award 2002, NZIA Colour Award 2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460930944983-KET4TVMD275FF1L8CVB3/north-exterior.jpg Townsend House - Townsend House 2001 The property is a subdivided section facing west with views across Miramar and glimpses of the sea and harbour. The house has open living areas upstairs with 3 bedrooms below. It is laid out to exploit the views and sun with a feeling of space and built to a modest budget. The lie of the roof relates to the surrounding bungalows and the house is set into a slight cut in the contour. The east section of the house is high walled, visually anchoring the house into the site. The west section of the house is cut and stepped with the roof lightly gliding over at the same angle as the land contour. Awards: NZIA Local Award 2002, NZIA Colour Award 2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460930875994-4SFYNILWUV6HH7Y209T0/view+of+front+door+inter.jpg Townsend House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460930894403-DKYNXN1YJKTHXZ4X7QDT/exterior-view-front-door.jpg Townsend House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460930844348-5U44TL2JEY3AQQR548KS/view+from+front+door+over+j.jpg Townsend House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460930842376-OWN4EOU2TZ041G8WO22B/view+from+dining+to+living.jpg Townsend House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460930850301-B60LHUJM5OY73PSRSOAE/view+into+kitchen.jpg Townsend House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460930897405-VEM083YU6O0AEX22YH6F/kitchen.jpg Townsend House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460930841761-8RSU79EVD7AYI1ROZPS0/view+downstairs.jpg Townsend House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460930889160-XTSTRAE2XJUA316IE77C/joinery.jpg Townsend House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460930875448-7Y1RHP6BZWIBX9RCHM5J/view+to+sitting+area.jpg Townsend House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460930933873-H21YGVE20GN8Q3D41CC1/vase+over+table.jpg Townsend House https://p-a.nz/lowry-house daily 0.75 2016-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460691424482-8RW52HO30ZY9U1W2UW3D/Povey9.jpg Lowry Bay House - Lowry Bay House 2013 The site and nearby houses are surrounded by established vegetation amongst a backdrop of bush covered hills. The owners, who are very social people, asked for a large living space and outdoor deck area where they could host friends, enjoy the sun and views of Wellington harbour and be surrounded by bush and birdsong. Much research was done to find an economical solution that would provide the necessary spaces and layout while at the same time creating a house that has its own individual architectural character tuned to its location. The bedroom level has been excavated back into the hillside with the deck and living spaces sitting above. Both the roof and floor levels fall in the same direction as the slope of the land. The main roof is one mono-pitch and the rear and side walls are clad in vertical corrugated iron for economy and to visually wrap these parts of the house. Varying layers of vertical materials are used on the north façade to create rhythms that relate to the light and shadow of the trees. Photography - Paul McCredie Awards: NZIA Local Award for Architecture 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460691424482-8RW52HO30ZY9U1W2UW3D/Povey9.jpg Lowry Bay House - Lowry Bay House 2013 The site and nearby houses are surrounded by established vegetation amongst a backdrop of bush covered hills. The owners, who are very social people, asked for a large living space and outdoor deck area where they could host friends, enjoy the sun and views of Wellington harbour and be surrounded by bush and birdsong. Much research was done to find an economical solution that would provide the necessary spaces and layout while at the same time creating a house that has its own individual architectural character tuned to its location. The bedroom level has been excavated back into the hillside with the deck and living spaces sitting above. Both the roof and floor levels fall in the same direction as the slope of the land. The main roof is one mono-pitch and the rear and side walls are clad in vertical corrugated iron for economy and to visually wrap these parts of the house. Varying layers of vertical materials are used on the north façade to create rhythms that relate to the light and shadow of the trees. Photography - Paul McCredie Awards: NZIA Local Award for Architecture 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460691398689-DIZH4VXQMK99JX5I0CI4/Povey1.jpg Lowry Bay House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460691398880-Z9FLP5QVY0A1IHE4RSEZ/Povey4.jpg Lowry Bay House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460691415585-J313GKHFOK8R3YQX9QN6/Povey11.jpg Lowry Bay House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460691407202-J0RVNOB4L4X274Q0YOE4/Povey6.jpg Lowry Bay House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460691432891-AQIKQLSAZA3CBUFY1301/Povey19.jpg Lowry Bay House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460691424631-JXJ2VOEXY04D9NVOGZLW/Povey17.jpg Lowry Bay House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460691431649-TOOT0OW91LOKEVE76AIA/Povey18.jpg Lowry Bay House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460691441733-G986K55FUYDVJXRCKVZB/Povey20.jpg Lowry Bay House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460691442464-3EP8Z1NVGR8DJMZSJVAT/Povey21.jpg Lowry Bay House https://p-a.nz/matai-house daily 0.75 2016-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460937072375-OUKEORHK5R963Q4HOVM9/Matai2.jpg Matai House - Matai House 2013 The family had lived in this early 1900’s Villa for several years before embarking on alterations. It was a typical villa layout, rooms running down each side of a central hallway with a view to the laundry, toilet and kitchen areas at the rear. These received the best late sun, but were nestled up against a retaining wall holding up the bank rising up to the rear of the site. The house felt disconnected from the rear of the property and the owners needed extra living space and two more bedrooms for their growing family. Together with the clients we decided to divide the house in two, the old villa and the new extension. To accentuate this difference and to connect the house with the sunny rear part of the section we created a series of concrete platforms with wooden steps between creating a new elevated family living space leading up to a larger sunnier rear courtyard. We placed the two new bedrooms and a bathroom above the new living space. The roofs and outer walls of the extension are created in the same corrugated colorsteel as the old house, but are folded to suit the functions they enclose and dodge the WCC building envelope. The new living space is located directly at the end of the villa hallway. The space is visible from the front door with the steps and a raised clerestory roof lifting the eye up to the rear of the property and giving a sense of invitation. Glazing of the clerestory is behind timber slat work to filter the late low sun. Photography - Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460937072375-OUKEORHK5R963Q4HOVM9/Matai2.jpg Matai House - Matai House 2013 The family had lived in this early 1900’s Villa for several years before embarking on alterations. It was a typical villa layout, rooms running down each side of a central hallway with a view to the laundry, toilet and kitchen areas at the rear. These received the best late sun, but were nestled up against a retaining wall holding up the bank rising up to the rear of the site. The house felt disconnected from the rear of the property and the owners needed extra living space and two more bedrooms for their growing family. Together with the clients we decided to divide the house in two, the old villa and the new extension. To accentuate this difference and to connect the house with the sunny rear part of the section we created a series of concrete platforms with wooden steps between creating a new elevated family living space leading up to a larger sunnier rear courtyard. We placed the two new bedrooms and a bathroom above the new living space. The roofs and outer walls of the extension are created in the same corrugated colorsteel as the old house, but are folded to suit the functions they enclose and dodge the WCC building envelope. The new living space is located directly at the end of the villa hallway. The space is visible from the front door with the steps and a raised clerestory roof lifting the eye up to the rear of the property and giving a sense of invitation. Glazing of the clerestory is behind timber slat work to filter the late low sun. Photography - Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460937255326-GWKN580AF981IZD2VTNS/Matai36.jpg Matai House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1462773812218-IO37YGSMQJKGJOA8RF4G/Matai16.jpg Matai House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460937217947-YEAVJ7524Q4P3YZDVJ3A/Matai31.jpg Matai House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460937063444-7FJP3RP4NPUBN9S1P0M2/Matai3.jpg Matai House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460937282713-HUC6F2SSX2RCEBCHVTFX/Matai49.jpg Matai House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460937102618-6LRU6OYKU3S9FD7QBFV6/Matai9.jpg Matai House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460937084270-RFAXTTT6LDJPIJOAAHKJ/Matai4.jpg Matai House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460937126278-DZA5LT64HNV3LOJSQ78D/Matai19.jpg Matai House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1463004217476-4HMKH1HUMSR2W3ZDPMHW/Best+stair.jpg Matai House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460937189993-QH38T1TZNNMYKXL18Y1I/Matai25.jpg Matai House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460937183902-3DSB20NXIAEBRKL2ZBXV/Matai22.jpg Matai House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460937261244-ZTFV5CFNDA0SF2NA5ZAS/Matai32.jpg Matai House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460937104180-MEMNPJRIYLI0Y9JD52G5/Matai15.jpg Matai House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460937286654-6A6LKN7116TLNBYA9Z77/Matai44.jpg Matai House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460937196236-Z963SGIONKRZ9MS4L7J7/Matai28.jpg Matai House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460937213679-LUGF8BZ0WP68HROEJQB7/Matai30.jpg Matai House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460937306300-MS09YCTJ0CZ3O47KYIZ6/elevations.jpg Matai House https://p-a.nz/icebreaker-retail daily 0.75 2016-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460939640406-3EXGDZ0I0BZHUVJRGEG2/Picture+012.jpg Icebreaker Retail - Icebreaker Retail 2005 Icebreaker is a young and innovative Wellington clothing manufacturing company who sell their products worldwide. The Wellington Airport ‘touch-lab' is their first foray into retail. A design was developed around the idea of a sewn shop, using organic forms that could be cut, curved and stitched. Shagpile carpet forms were used, which are soft, sculptural and engaging, while the remainder of the shop is treated in a crisper more rectilinear way, where lines and layers of shelving, natural images, product images and product have been built up. Entering Wellington Airport, the shop welcomes visitors with the large open end of its cross section. Moving through the shop the curving shagpile forms start to compress and envelop the shopper in a more intimate way. Light spills out between the gaps from the lighter interior into the darker arrival corridor accentuating the varying forms and inviting exploration. Download NZ Retail article Photography - Paul McCredie Awards: DINZ Best Awards 2006 - Winner, NZIA Local Award 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460939640406-3EXGDZ0I0BZHUVJRGEG2/Picture+012.jpg Icebreaker Retail - Icebreaker Retail 2005 Icebreaker is a young and innovative Wellington clothing manufacturing company who sell their products worldwide. The Wellington Airport ‘touch-lab' is their first foray into retail. A design was developed around the idea of a sewn shop, using organic forms that could be cut, curved and stitched. Shagpile carpet forms were used, which are soft, sculptural and engaging, while the remainder of the shop is treated in a crisper more rectilinear way, where lines and layers of shelving, natural images, product images and product have been built up. Entering Wellington Airport, the shop welcomes visitors with the large open end of its cross section. Moving through the shop the curving shagpile forms start to compress and envelop the shopper in a more intimate way. Light spills out between the gaps from the lighter interior into the darker arrival corridor accentuating the varying forms and inviting exploration. Download NZ Retail article Photography - Paul McCredie Awards: DINZ Best Awards 2006 - Winner, NZIA Local Award 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460939610629-OCT9VO1AV3PJ6A96VFOT/IMG_1255.jpg Icebreaker Retail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460939614202-YM35W1JJEZAR4AF5W3HN/IMG_1294.jpg Icebreaker Retail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460939628578-0F4WEFDN6VPUHQAARVZW/Picture+001.jpg Icebreaker Retail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460939653845-RLUTS492QXD4MBIMQURX/DSC00028.jpg Icebreaker Retail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460939657629-3HP3RAZMPBZYBBJYY0UE/IMG_0458.jpg Icebreaker Retail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460939661768-QVDE9D80Y7IT8YHNQDAN/IMG_0477.jpg Icebreaker Retail https://p-a.nz/hataitai-house daily 0.75 2016-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460673252544-BIBRB6W934FSBA53YJXM/1+context.jpg Hataitai House - Hataitai House 1995 This is a 130 square metre 3 bedroom house on a subdivided rear section in Hataitai. The ground floor levels are stepped across the site to minimize the amount of excavation and use of retaining walls. The floor levels step with the land to provide varying relationships between spaces. The openly linked living and circulation spaces, high stud heights in the kitchen and living areas and different views through the house allow a feeling of generosity and space. Cost effective materials and standard NZS 3604 construction were used for economy. Strategic use of colour and layering of materials combine to build a visual story. Awards: NZIA Regional Award 1996, NZIA Colour Award 1996 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460673252544-BIBRB6W934FSBA53YJXM/1+context.jpg Hataitai House - Hataitai House 1995 This is a 130 square metre 3 bedroom house on a subdivided rear section in Hataitai. The ground floor levels are stepped across the site to minimize the amount of excavation and use of retaining walls. The floor levels step with the land to provide varying relationships between spaces. The openly linked living and circulation spaces, high stud heights in the kitchen and living areas and different views through the house allow a feeling of generosity and space. Cost effective materials and standard NZS 3604 construction were used for economy. Strategic use of colour and layering of materials combine to build a visual story. 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It is designed to allow good views and connection to the beach while still offering a good deal of protection from the elements. Exterior materials flow from outside to inside expressing separate building forms, revealing layers, linking spaces and the interior and exterior, which creates a sense of encampment. The roof pitch follows the line of the land up and away from downpipes, which are drawn out of the ground. The layout is casual and flexible allowing response to the wind direction and sun. The east courtyard is sunny in the morning and sheltered from the north westerly. On the west side there are places to sit outside when it is calm and inside in the sun when its windy. Photography - Patrick Reynolds Download Houses NZ article Awards: NZIA Local Award for Architecture 2007, NZIA Colour Award 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460679676815-WKDNXSF9Y3V3F1SE5DMB/RAUMATI+HSE_6789.jpg Raumati Beach House - Raumati House 2007 The house is not a bach but a home that has the relaxed casualness of seaside living with the solidity, enclosure and practicality of a family home. It is designed to allow good views and connection to the beach while still offering a good deal of protection from the elements. Exterior materials flow from outside to inside expressing separate building forms, revealing layers, linking spaces and the interior and exterior, which creates a sense of encampment. The roof pitch follows the line of the land up and away from downpipes, which are drawn out of the ground. The layout is casual and flexible allowing response to the wind direction and sun. The east courtyard is sunny in the morning and sheltered from the north westerly. On the west side there are places to sit outside when it is calm and inside in the sun when its windy. 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Stage 1 included the main living space, kitchen, laundry, bathroom and 1 bedroom - enough for the owners to live on site. Stage 2 included a second and more intimate living space opening on to a sheltered courtyard, a study and new main bedroom, bathroom and dressing room. The separate stages are expressed as separate elements linked by a delicate glazed walkway that helps form one side of the courtyard while at the same time allowing views through. Photography - Patrick Reynolds Download Home NZ article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460678890104-2BR8UXE1HUPE0CGQN6A5/PEKAPEKA+HSE_6679.jpg Paetawa Additions - Paetawa Additions 2007 The house was designed so that it could be built in several stages. Stage 1 included the main living space, kitchen, laundry, bathroom and 1 bedroom - enough for the owners to live on site. Stage 2 included a second and more intimate living space opening on to a sheltered courtyard, a study and new main bedroom, bathroom and dressing room. The separate stages are expressed as separate elements linked by a delicate glazed walkway that helps form one side of the courtyard while at the same time allowing views through. Photography - Patrick Reynolds Download Home NZ article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460678879599-0T48N9O0BFR8SKXOZRL9/PEKAPEKA+HSE_6603.jpg Paetawa Additions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460678883361-16UHEZYMVF97E4ZMECZU/PEKAPEKA+HSE_6634.jpg Paetawa Additions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460678885201-MHFHNASZ5UGDUZ63M7AD/PEKAPEKA+HSE_6641.jpg Paetawa Additions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460678894840-0MBOMB73H2L5JGZARKQR/PEKAPEKA+HSE_6703.jpg Paetawa Additions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460678893748-1LARU2UED2CLPW79GN66/PEKAPEKA+HSE_6710.jpg Paetawa Additions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460678899328-EZ0RUQS2PBLKP9UFWM33/PEKAPEKA+HSE_6718.jpg Paetawa Additions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460678884888-C7S3E2BO7IV08G2OZQNP/PEKAPEKA+HSE_6614.jpg Paetawa Additions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460678888768-MAY3W7BM74U7LFJRWZBU/PEKAPEKA+HSE_6644.jpg Paetawa Additions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460678898204-W8FI7FE667O4M0FLY9VI/PEKAPEKA+HSE_6712.jpg Paetawa Additions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460678900143-6G3CLMJ3GJGWRW7IBE14/PEKAPEKA+HSE_6592.jpg Paetawa Additions https://p-a.nz/waikanae-house daily 0.75 2016-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460950366694-6WKONVOHKXO7Y3W3EMXI/86AS2584_RT8.jpg Waikanae House - Waikanae House 2004 This is a house for a couple who commute to Wellington to work, a house that is casual, sunny, open and light and related to the subtleties of the site. The street boundary faces northeast and in the middle of the site is a small hillock. We have run the house through level across this allowing it to float above the ground at the front and rear. At the centre of the house, where it touches the ground, a courtyard is indented to bring in sun and light and provide a private outside living. The kitchen is at the centre of the living spaces, which flow in three directions from this point. Photography - Paul McCredie Awards: NZIA Local Award 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460950366694-6WKONVOHKXO7Y3W3EMXI/86AS2584_RT8.jpg Waikanae House - Waikanae House 2004 This is a house for a couple who commute to Wellington to work, a house that is casual, sunny, open and light and related to the subtleties of the site. The street boundary faces northeast and in the middle of the site is a small hillock. We have run the house through level across this allowing it to float above the ground at the front and rear. At the centre of the house, where it touches the ground, a courtyard is indented to bring in sun and light and provide a private outside living. The kitchen is at the centre of the living spaces, which flow in three directions from this point. Photography - Paul McCredie Awards: NZIA Local Award 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460950230279-04LZMSAO8PF2BUQE48J7/86AS2540_RT8.jpg Waikanae House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460950337988-UWE7S2ZSIN1N45OEG9LU/86AS2570_RT8.jpg Waikanae House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460950377993-PJRZCS780Q0KH5NY0FKA/DSC00012.jpg Waikanae House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460950419022-D6W0BAI5OSNUHSHLR4K1/DSC00017.jpg Waikanae House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460950452384-653PYN2PR6LYEQYAHPZ9/DSC00027.jpg Waikanae House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460950425255-FH0TJ322QNPZ3PK0GD6W/DSC00024.jpg Waikanae House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460950455734-8TQMKMQLMWNVCELQ13UV/DSC00028.jpg Waikanae House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460950559716-KXQHL2OG9P6UXYKBODLU/DSC00032.jpg Waikanae House https://p-a.nz/glenbervie-alterations-and-additions daily 0.75 2019-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1487632263277-G99EVOPCDQ2GTTW97JAN/Piers2.jpg Glenbervie Alterations and Additions - Glenbervie Alterations and Additions This small project required extending and renovating a small pre-1900’s workingman’s cottage. The finished house has 3 slightly stepped levels, down to the east. The top level (the original cottage) contains a living room and a bedroom, the middle the kitchen and the lower a dining family area opening out to a deck with views through trees to the east. The owner had grown up in a 1950’s modernist home, and parts of the new interior are infused with a similar flavour, to compliment and subtly contrast the style of the original cottage. Photographer Paul McCredie NZIA Local Award for Architecture 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1487632263277-G99EVOPCDQ2GTTW97JAN/Piers2.jpg Glenbervie Alterations and Additions - Glenbervie Alterations and Additions This small project required extending and renovating a small pre-1900’s workingman’s cottage. The finished house has 3 slightly stepped levels, down to the east. The top level (the original cottage) contains a living room and a bedroom, the middle the kitchen and the lower a dining family area opening out to a deck with views through trees to the east. The owner had grown up in a 1950’s modernist home, and parts of the new interior are infused with a similar flavour, to compliment and subtly contrast the style of the original cottage. Photographer Paul McCredie NZIA Local Award for Architecture 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1487632317630-NAYEKQUDG701YL4C7NS8/Piers18.jpg Glenbervie Alterations and Additions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1487632319685-1OEXI5A0CL2Z7X89ZZCR/Piers19.jpg Glenbervie Alterations and Additions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1487632250535-EIWTTT21MPVT2HN8J22V/Piers5.jpg Glenbervie Alterations and Additions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1487632292519-KK5B91T6OGICDRN0EL2F/Piers17.jpg Glenbervie Alterations and Additions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1487632337944-8HW3O10QJO1YOESVUQGW/PIers20.jpg Glenbervie Alterations and Additions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1487632268506-N4D1NMCB9OQVFKHE0XYK/Piers8.jpg Glenbervie Alterations and Additions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1487632299653-4YHIFN26ZCA6SI25CP7V/Piers10.jpg Glenbervie Alterations and Additions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1487632340942-QRKJLZ5M1MEMRITBQO3V/Piers21.jpg Glenbervie Alterations and Additions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1487632226439-MIDG8VTNOF9ECOTQP4GL/Piers3.jpg Glenbervie Alterations and Additions https://p-a.nz/moetapu-beach-house daily 0.75 2019-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1487628282530-4IZMKL6J3Z4KTB661ZHH/Moetapu13.jpg Moetapu Beach House - Moetapu Beach House 2016 This holiday house sits at the bottom of a steep, winding gravel driveway on a sloping bush covered site looking out to Pelorus Sound. The roof form helps ‘fold’ the house into the shape of the land around a small central courtyard area. The house is laid out to provide varied accommodation, for small numbers or large groups and is laid out in a string like manner. The garage and 2 bedrooms are at the top level leading down to the living space and down further to an activity room and a variety of bedrooms opening out to a lower a lower lawn. There is no front entry and there are several different ways to move around and through the house, both inside and out. There is a walking and quad-bike track that is an extension of the driveway that passes through the central courtyard and under an internal link-way leading to the lower lawn and jetty. Dark vertical timber cladding and a soft grey roof help the house rest amongst the bush. Photographer Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1487628282530-4IZMKL6J3Z4KTB661ZHH/Moetapu13.jpg Moetapu Beach House - Moetapu Beach House 2016 This holiday house sits at the bottom of a steep, winding gravel driveway on a sloping bush covered site looking out to Pelorus Sound. The roof form helps ‘fold’ the house into the shape of the land around a small central courtyard area. The house is laid out to provide varied accommodation, for small numbers or large groups and is laid out in a string like manner. The garage and 2 bedrooms are at the top level leading down to the living space and down further to an activity room and a variety of bedrooms opening out to a lower a lower lawn. There is no front entry and there are several different ways to move around and through the house, both inside and out. There is a walking and quad-bike track that is an extension of the driveway that passes through the central courtyard and under an internal link-way leading to the lower lawn and jetty. Dark vertical timber cladding and a soft grey roof help the house rest amongst the bush. 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There are a variety of spaces designed to accommodate client meetings, small and large ‘in house’ group sessions, quiet working areas, casual meeting areas and multipurpose spaces for working, meeting or review. An existing fit-out and raised floor was removed, apart from the existing kitchen, which remains. The new walls, doors and glazing are composed as vertical elements, spanning between the floor and an upper datum. These elements vary in colour, texture and material depending on their function and are used to articulate the spaces at both a visual functional level. Where privacy and intimacy are important they are made of acoustic paneling. Between the 3 largest meeting rooms they become sections of double glazed coloured glass, allowing light and partial views through while still providing acoustic and visual privacy. American Ash battens sit at the junction between the changing wall elements. The 3 largest meeting rooms have 3 different characters expressed in their colours, light levels, aspect and selection of light fittings. Elsewhere clusters of rice paper lanterns weave the more open spaces together. Photographer Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1522027464150-7PNF0MBNC7YANBNTCDRZ/AlpHero2.jpg Alphero - Alphero Offices 2017 Alphero had leased half a floor above their existing office level to free up more working space and provide a greater variety of functional spaces for their growing business. There are a variety of spaces designed to accommodate client meetings, small and large ‘in house’ group sessions, quiet working areas, casual meeting areas and multipurpose spaces for working, meeting or review. An existing fit-out and raised floor was removed, apart from the existing kitchen, which remains. The new walls, doors and glazing are composed as vertical elements, spanning between the floor and an upper datum. These elements vary in colour, texture and material depending on their function and are used to articulate the spaces at both a visual functional level. Where privacy and intimacy are important they are made of acoustic paneling. Between the 3 largest meeting rooms they become sections of double glazed coloured glass, allowing light and partial views through while still providing acoustic and visual privacy. American Ash battens sit at the junction between the changing wall elements. The 3 largest meeting rooms have 3 different characters expressed in their colours, light levels, aspect and selection of light fittings. Elsewhere clusters of rice paper lanterns weave the more open spaces together. 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Wakatipu House 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1734645898172-S5O854WZAAER1GCDFSB4/mosaic.jpg Projects - Lee House and Studio 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1710292126124-UKIGEVZN96FJBRRKOYPQ/mosaic.jpg Projects - Sar Street House 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1692768004418-8UVIOU76HX3CWNP1R3SU/mosaic+-+Lookout.jpeg Projects - The Lookout 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1703212151583-6OXIBCAXH5BS1FCNST0W/link+pic.jpeg Projects - Manuka Retreat 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1644984005224-GK7DFTU8TXBUJBI12W9P/Craggythumb.jpg Projects - Tukituki House 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1677121173429-R2NUE59N0HW3YFK5N4K9/DST-PAR-PARKAVE-0223-4644.jpg Projects - Veil House 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1644649332672-MJPGE33ZGJZHZ2PANZ8U/thumbnail.JPG Projects - 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The Garden House 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1552094921074-TDL1XVQKLQDL3ZTS0XKV/link+screen.jpg Projects - Salmont Place 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1461314885509-ZYYH08W31QQEPRM0RRXP/Screen+Shot+2016-04-22+at+8.41.44+PM.png Projects - Francis Bell House 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1551330164857-66U8P6CWVIDGNDMXGTKW/mosaic.jpg Projects - Ostrich House 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460938657975-7EFM8HRDLJWDY08ONSKJ/Court6.jpg Projects - Seatoun Heights House 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460887544316-QKILL0K4CZZ5ZWXQ7A44/PP59+%281%29.jpg Projects - Zinc House 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1513487412089-HWEQRAFPD0GYYWTYFVBG/link+screen.jpg Projects - Korokoro Bush House 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1487635689641-NFEBXTUMO4QCGPPHCSRD/ruby-bay-house.jpg Projects - Ruby Bay House 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460887027927-9WE92RFCVLRK2US36SDG/Koro23.jpg Projects - Korokoro House 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460939560810-A0YXZXUKLLINA06XNM3Z/Seaview10.jpg Projects - Sea View House 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1461292238871-3HDJ2LL4TZZYT0V16OSN/Povey11.jpg Projects - Lowry Bay House 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460939486686-PJ0XSATT2VNXM3HIT5B0/Hutch1.jpg Projects - Wairau Valley House 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460927867408-KSQ0YPEHAARX21JTV5DG/salamanca-thumb.jpg Projects - Salamanca House 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460886188307-NI2DNGRKT17VWL0QQ63H/A1756.jpg Projects - Martinborough House 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460886323294-8I2D32LBVLSE2VWDY03V/F1000005.jpg Projects - 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Tutere Beach House 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460931472053-ZKNVWIEEZ3DO61QCAQ7Z/DSC_0126.jpg Projects - Apple Bay Beach House 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460930837190-YEIE4RZHAFR6XU0TSR5L/RAUMATI%2BHSE_6865.jpg Projects - Raumati Beach House 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460930685741-0NCU86IPD0WC40J59O05/Screenshot%2B2016-04-14%2B16.23.13.jpg Projects - Pekapeka Beach House 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460930891284-6UL13V5G6Z0R7BYYS3YP/Gregory48%2Bcopy.jpg Projects - Shoal Bay Bach 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1652334297984-JUOAVAJ6ZH67XISNKBK7/1+copy.jpg Projects - Paetawa Bach 2001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460929600054-NH1AJOSPKCYMX8YS95ZM/8.jpg Projects - Manly Street Beach House 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1747965741982-1Q9G76HMQA8BJRZEN9UF/mosaic.jpg Projects - 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Loretta Restaurant 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1581309066769-657SEIL8H5VM1342OE0Y/Dundas24.jpg Projects - Dundas Street Lawyers 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1558749190641-MSVWE0K8LLUU25S6BC3X/mosaic.jpg Projects - Gilmer Apartment Hotel 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460942762148-QGIZSRBO4RQY0GJJXD5X/Picture%2B001.jpg Projects - Icebreaker Retail 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460671919227-X55VF1J4TO9N3A3OL01J/p-a-thumb.jpg Projects - Parsonson Architects Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1522030342057-LVL0ZQJV87HDA8DPOBDE/AlpHero18+reduced.jpg Projects - Alphero Offices 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1460674610834-OSGTLF4ABMPRSW9V128Z/kumutoto-thumb.jpg Projects - Kumutoto Site 9 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1669858029550-CUVFEU7FJWPWSIV0LLUA/PittSt05.jpg Projects - 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Registered Architect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1531344957883-97QOPH9TEO1O33S73TOX/PA8.jpg People Sam Donald (BArch, ANZIA) Associate - Registered Architect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1531344951360-5F5OO0376DF2K87LYU2S/PA1.jpg People Andreas Cherry (BArch, LBP Design) Associate - Licensed Building Practitioner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1687318850617-YPOZXQUT2XHBUPH8PGDF/PA2.jpg People Henry Dengate Thrush (MArch [prof], BAS) Registered Architect https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1531344954299-GRK44HF0PVRDW0LZ0G18/PA3.jpg People Nicolas Zilliox (MArch and BArch [France], Qualified Passive House Designer) Registered Architect ANZIA https://p-a.nz/dundas-street-employment-lawyers daily 0.75 2020-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1581307873007-PYM05K4WWBWSNITQ0FVN/Dundas5.jpg Dundas Street Employment Lawyers DUNDAS STREET LAW OFFICE 2019 This fit-out, located on the top floor of a building in central Wellington, replaces one from a previous tenant. In the previous configuration entry was from the East side of the lift lobby and individual offices and meeting rooms were located around the perimeter with convoluted internal circulation. Part of the skylight was obscured and the remainder of it only illuminated a portion of the hallway. Dundas Street Law Office is a well-regarded small to medium sized legal practice that specialises in employment law. They are a characterful and unique practice and the fit-out was designed to reflect this, whilst seeking to provide a comfortable and relaxing environment for their clients. The floor of the building was purchased with the intent of creating a long-term home. Removing a section of concrete wall in front of the lifts has allowed entry towards the North and beneath the existing skylight (now painted yellow to celebrate the light) and leads into a new open reception area and views out through the spaces to the city. They had a need for a variety of different and flexible spaces, from a large open plan working area to a separate more casual area for staff and visitors and a variety of meeting rooms and booths for private meetings and telephone conversations. Shapes were drawn from the Dundas Street logo and a series of porthole windows in the original building’s rooftop (which are still visible through the existing skylight) and led to the introduction of casual, playful elements which are used to help orchestrate the entry and reception spaces and joinery design. The existing fit-out glass partitions were salvaged and reused within the folded glass and timber meeting room screen and all of the doors and aluminium frames are also re-used from the previous fit-out. All partitions were timber framed, along with extensive use of timber elements throughout the fit-out and on the two rooftop terraces. Almost all of the existing office furniture from the clients previous fit-out was incorporated into the design with existing desks and storage units wrapped in plywood and acoustic panelling to integrate them with the new layout, with new furniture specified for the more public spaces. The existing carpet tiles were reused by a local school and all lighting was upgraded to LED. Photography - Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1581307873007-PYM05K4WWBWSNITQ0FVN/Dundas5.jpg Dundas Street Employment Lawyers DUNDAS STREET LAW OFFICE 2019 This fit-out, located on the top floor of a building in central Wellington, replaces one from a previous tenant. In the previous configuration entry was from the East side of the lift lobby and individual offices and meeting rooms were located around the perimeter with convoluted internal circulation. Part of the skylight was obscured and the remainder of it only illuminated a portion of the hallway. Dundas Street Law Office is a well-regarded small to medium sized legal practice that specialises in employment law. They are a characterful and unique practice and the fit-out was designed to reflect this, whilst seeking to provide a comfortable and relaxing environment for their clients. The floor of the building was purchased with the intent of creating a long-term home. Removing a section of concrete wall in front of the lifts has allowed entry towards the North and beneath the existing skylight (now painted yellow to celebrate the light) and leads into a new open reception area and views out through the spaces to the city. They had a need for a variety of different and flexible spaces, from a large open plan working area to a separate more casual area for staff and visitors and a variety of meeting rooms and booths for private meetings and telephone conversations. Shapes were drawn from the Dundas Street logo and a series of porthole windows in the original building’s rooftop (which are still visible through the existing skylight) and led to the introduction of casual, playful elements which are used to help orchestrate the entry and reception spaces and joinery design. The existing fit-out glass partitions were salvaged and reused within the folded glass and timber meeting room screen and all of the doors and aluminium frames are also re-used from the previous fit-out. All partitions were timber framed, along with extensive use of timber elements throughout the fit-out and on the two rooftop terraces. Almost all of the existing office furniture from the clients previous fit-out was incorporated into the design with existing desks and storage units wrapped in plywood and acoustic panelling to integrate them with the new layout, with new furniture specified for the more public spaces. The existing carpet tiles were reused by a local school and all lighting was upgraded to LED. 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It is a small 1 bedroom house for a working couple. He works in Wellington and she in Palmerston North. The house is set on gently undulating dune lands, facing northwest, looking across the road and lower dunes out to the Tasman Sea and Kapiti Island to the west. It is intended for the house to both relate to the horizontality of this landscape and also be at odds with it, as if it had been left there, or washed up. The exterior is composed of a rhythm of painted fibre cement panels. Elements of wall, roof beam, roof layers and brise soliel are expressed separately, with light entering in places in between. There is a sense of horizontal and vertical layering, and metaphorically a sense of dislocation or decomposition of parts, as if a creature or construction had been left high and dry above the tide. Photographer Paul McCredie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1652333381422-YK9VLX5QJXGCKB37GF28/BlueSky+copy.jpg Paetawa Bach - Paetawea Bach 2001 The house is located at Pekapeka Beach, a small seaside settlement 1 hours drive north of Wellington City. It is a small 1 bedroom house for a working couple. He works in Wellington and she in Palmerston North. The house is set on gently undulating dune lands, facing northwest, looking across the road and lower dunes out to the Tasman Sea and Kapiti Island to the west. It is intended for the house to both relate to the horizontality of this landscape and also be at odds with it, as if it had been left there, or washed up. The exterior is composed of a rhythm of painted fibre cement panels. Elements of wall, roof beam, roof layers and brise soliel are expressed separately, with light entering in places in between. There is a sense of horizontal and vertical layering, and metaphorically a sense of dislocation or decomposition of parts, as if a creature or construction had been left high and dry above the tide. 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The northern house is nestled on the hill amongst the trees and looks out to the harbour and hills, over the new foreshore buildings. A perch from which to admire the beauty of the harbour and a private retreat from the activity below. Sheltered areas at both the top and bottom of the cable car are provided for access. The house is composed as a series of stacked wooden boxes orientated towards different outlooks and wrapped with a protective metal ‘cloak’. A tall house is created that sits elegantly, like a tree house, amongst the tall trees on the hillside, while providing sunny, light and open spaces with wonderful views. The house has a large open plan living area on its’ middle level, with an expansive north and west facing deck and windows and doors allowing a multitude of views out towards the harbour and hills. There are places to sit in the sun at different times of the day and this level also allows access the out onto the land to the north and up to the roof deck via an external stair. The upper level contains the main bedroom, with ensuite, dressing room, study area with sheltering eaves and a roof deck with superb 270 degree views. The lower level contains two or three bedrooms depending on requirements. All levels are linked with a lift. The southern house is composed with a ‘floating’ upper level, sitting on a solid base and supported by exposed structural members. The house is clad in natural oiled vertical timber cladding of varying widths and depths in reference to the textures of the tree trunks in the surrounding bush. This combined with the abstracted, branch-like structural elements creates a dramatic form that sits up high amongst the trees overlooking land and sea. There is a large open plan living area on the upper level, with a west facing deck offering 180 degree views, and an enclosed deck (wintergarden) facing north off the kitchen, which receives all day sun and provides an indoor/outdoor room that can be opened up or closed down depending on the wind and weather conditions. This space also allows for views back up the hill to the east. The arrangement of indoor and outdoor living spaces offers flexibility in the changing weather conditions throughout the day.The middle level contains a very generous main bedroom with superb 180 degree views out under a large sheltering overhang, with ensuite, dressing room, laundry and storage area. The lower level contains two bedrooms, a study and storage area. 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The house has a large open plan living area on its’ middle level, with an expansive north and west facing deck and windows and doors allowing a multitude of views out towards the harbour and hills. There are places to sit in the sun at different times of the day and this level also allows access the out onto the land to the north and up to the roof deck via an external stair. The upper level contains the main bedroom, with ensuite, dressing room, study area with sheltering eaves and a roof deck with superb 270 degree views. The lower level contains two or three bedrooms depending on requirements. All levels are linked with a lift. The southern house is composed with a ‘floating’ upper level, sitting on a solid base and supported by exposed structural members. The house is clad in natural oiled vertical timber cladding of varying widths and depths in reference to the textures of the tree trunks in the surrounding bush. This combined with the abstracted, branch-like structural elements creates a dramatic form that sits up high amongst the trees overlooking land and sea. There is a large open plan living area on the upper level, with a west facing deck offering 180 degree views, and an enclosed deck (wintergarden) facing north off the kitchen, which receives all day sun and provides an indoor/outdoor room that can be opened up or closed down depending on the wind and weather conditions. This space also allows for views back up the hill to the east. The arrangement of indoor and outdoor living spaces offers flexibility in the changing weather conditions throughout the day.The middle level contains a very generous main bedroom with superb 180 degree views out under a large sheltering overhang, with ensuite, dressing room, laundry and storage area. The lower level contains two bedrooms, a study and storage area. 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It is afforded expansive views out across the foreshore to the harbour and hills beyond. The house wraps around the Pohutukawa tree with a large elevated ‘L’ shaped living space extending out towards the harbour and distant views, perched above the road for privacy and as a tranquil spot from which to observe the activity below. The shapes used for the driveway and planters at ground level and the upper roof deck are reflective of the organic nature of the foreshore environment. The lower floor and oval planter are clad in vertically lined ‘board form’ concrete that reflects the rocks and rugged concrete edges to this coastal locality. By contrast, the upper floor is clad in horizontal timber that appears lighter and more layered, filtering the light and views and reflecting the variations of the bush clad hillside behind. Entry, garage and three bedrooms are located on the ground floor, set back from the road with a lift linking the three floors. 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The house wraps around the Pohutukawa tree with a large elevated ‘L’ shaped living space extending out towards the harbour and distant views, perched above the road for privacy and as a tranquil spot from which to observe the activity below. The shapes used for the driveway and planters at ground level and the upper roof deck are reflective of the organic nature of the foreshore environment. The lower floor and oval planter are clad in vertically lined ‘board form’ concrete that reflects the rocks and rugged concrete edges to this coastal locality. By contrast, the upper floor is clad in horizontal timber that appears lighter and more layered, filtering the light and views and reflecting the variations of the bush clad hillside behind. Entry, garage and three bedrooms are located on the ground floor, set back from the road with a lift linking the three floors. The main bedroom is on the first floor, with the living spaces, and looks out to the harbour view through the branches of the pohutukawa tree, providing privacy from the road. A more enclosed TV-den space is tucked in behind the kitchen with views up to the trees behind. There is a large multipurpose flexible study/spare bedroom/rumpus space on the upper level that opens out to a large roof terrace arranged around a planted roof garden. This concept is for a 4/5 bedroom home with 320m2 floor area plus 105m2 of decks and terraces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56ca5424c2ea51c475f63cee/1695779066408-OPCNWI8W7GGVEDDOBRMH/Screenshot+2023-09-27+at+11.14.53+am.jpg Commanders House - Commanders House 2021 The site in Shelly Bay is elevated above the road, incorporating a significant established Pohutukawa, and set against the tree covered hillside. The site is afforded expansive views out across the foreshore to the harbour and hills beyond. The house wraps around the Pohutukawa tree with a large elevated ‘L’ shaped living space extending out towards the harbour and distant views, perched above the road for privacy and as a tranquil spot from which to observe the activity below. The shapes used for the driveway and planters at ground level and the upper roof deck are reflective of the organic nature of the foreshore environment. The lower floor and oval planter are clad in vertically lined ‘board form’ concrete that reflects the rocks and rugged concrete edges to this coastal locality. By contrast, the upper floor is clad in horizontal timber that appears lighter and more layered, filtering the light and views and reflecting the variations of the bush clad hillside behind. Entry, garage and three bedrooms are located on the ground floor, set back from the road with a lift linking the three floors. The main bedroom is on the first floor, with the living spaces, and looks out to the harbour view through the branches of the pohutukawa tree, providing privacy from the road. A more enclosed TV-den space is tucked in behind the kitchen with views up to the trees behind. There is a large multipurpose flexible study/spare bedroom/rumpus space on the upper level that opens out to a large roof terrace arranged around a planted roof garden. 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