Beach Forest House by Makers of Architecture

ArchiPro Project Summary - Beach Forest House: A sustainable, community-focused dwelling featuring a two-bedroom home and flexible studio, designed for optimal environmental performance and site-specific integration on the scenic Wellington coastline.

Title:: Beach Forest House
Architect:: Makers of Architecture
Category:: Residential/; New Builds
Photographers:: Thomas Seear-Budd

Nestled into the north western hillside on the South Coast of Wellington, overlooking Island Bay Beach & surrounding valley systems, this home was developed in conjunction with the neighbouring Lot behind. The dwellings were to provide a flexible and complementary model for site specific suburban density and social diversity, that sits apart from standard replication models for multi-unit development.

An environment of flexibility, sense of community, belonging & sustainable healthy living were conditions that drove the design brief - alongside site specific responses such as connection with view, environmental passive design, low energy use, and future proofing.

Beach Forest House comprises three volumetric forms, that are separated into two parts; a 110m2 two bedroom home + smaller 40m2 flexible accommodation studio named ‘The Tower’, while decking and landscaping connect & dissect the forms.

A prefabricated construction assembly logic was used, consisting of a hybrid Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) & timber frame panelised system allowing accurate and efficient onsite assembly.

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Makers of Architecture. We enjoy a challenge and particularly the journey that is creative problem solving.Engaging with the latest technologies allows us to be innovative and accurate in our working, planning, budgeting, timing and construction methods. We truly believe the design and building process has many areas to be challenged and improved. We also understand that architecture isn’t just the culmination of an idea or concept but it must be responsive to the environments of; location, client needs + dreams, financial and cultural positions. Sensitively bringing these attributes together shapes, guides and balances each project’s scope, generating a unique set of criteria for the design to emerge and develop from.As every client, site and project is different, we welcome every challenge that is presented and endeavour to make each project an exceptional journey and experience for all involved.Clear communication, openness and integrity ground our company and its relationships with our clients and collaborators. We wish to engage with positive energy, creativity and innovation and to mitigate as many foreseeable problems that may arise or be of concern.