10x10 House
By Patchwork Architecture
Situated on the corner of a busy suburban street in Wellington, we were tasked with another slippery slope in the city.
The home of our go-to builder and his family, the brief was to design something on one level that captured the killer views of the airport, ocean and brightly painted pak n save. 10x10 is ten by ten. 100 square meters of square. Although it’s a little more than that, if you include the concrete core that helps the building to stand up. Supported at the edges by steel poles, and detailed with floor to ceiling glass. Three bedrooms, an office, two bathrooms, and a flat(!) grassy bit for braziers and barbecues.
There’s also a rooftop deck with its own bus stop, accessed by outside stairs and a yellow steel gangway. But you’d be waiting a while if you wanted to hitch a ride, best just to stop, sit and enjoy the view. We reckon it’s a ten out of ten.
Status: Complete, 2019.
Type: Residential, New Build.
Builders: Dorset.
Photography by Simon Wilson
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Patchwork Architecture is Ben Mitchell-Anyon & Sally Ogle.
Between us we have a wide range of experience, on jobs large and small, residential and commercial.
We started working together in late 2011, when along with Tim Gittos (now of Spacecraft Architects) we left our jobs in Wellington, moved to Whanganui, and launched into building the DogBox. We wanted to further our theoretical and drawn understanding of architecture through knowledge of the physical craft of building.
A year later, the DogBox was complete, and had picked up a couple of accolades along the way - including being selected as one of six finalists in HOME magazine 'Home of the Year 2013'.
Following that we set up our studio in Wellington, taking practical knowledge back to the drawing board, to help our clients create beautiful, efficient, warm, economical spaces that suit their purpose and location.