Accessible Alteration and Addition in Orakei, Auckland.

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Making Mobility and Accessibility essential, in enabling our client to continue to live at home. Key to this brief was to achieve a family home that, in spite of our client's accessibility requirements, would be a stylish example of what a modest fully accessible home might look like. The resulting design provides the addition

of a new wing which houses a spacious bedroom, full wet-room and a single garage with ramped internal access. The new light and airy north-facing living room opens fully onto a generous deck; all with flush thresholds, creating easy flow access to the sunny garden. The exist...

Making Mobility and Accessibility essential, in enabling our client to continue to live at home.

Key to this brief was to achieve a family home that, in spite of our client's accessibility requirements, would be a stylish example of what a modest fully accessible home might look like.

The resulting design provides the addition of a new wing which houses a spacious bedroom, full wet-room and a single garage with ramped internal access. The new light and airy north-facing living room opens fully onto a generous deck; all with flush thresholds, creating easy flow access to the sunny garden.

The existing bathroom has been re-configured and modernised, also with improved accessibility at its core.

Photo Credit - Sam Hartnett

Category: Residential

Home/Projects/Residential/Renovations and Extensions/Renovations

Products used in this Project

Hewi - Universal & Accessible Bathroom DesignSA Plumbing Supply

Professionals used in Accessible Alteration and Addition in Orakei, Auckland.

Architecture Smith + ScullyArchitects

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ACCESSIBLE BATHROOM DESIGN CONSULTATION

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Architecture Smith + Scully is an award-winning architectural practice based in Grey Lynn, Auckland. Established in 1996, our body of work is expansive, but our specialty is in residential design...we love it all!

Our sole aim is to enhance our clients’ everyday lives through thoughtful, responsive, quality design, to create nourishing, enjoyable and valuable environments. Our clients are very important to us, and many return and refer us to their colleagues and friends.

We provide the full range of architectural services, from site analysis and conceptual scheme design, through to full design documentation for the council approvals, construction and fit-out, consultant coordination, contractor selection and tendering of contracts and contract administration.