Bendemeer House
By Assembly Architects
Countering the North/South axis of the Remarkables, the East/West orientation of this home at Bendemeer faces prime mountain and valley views but also acts as a windbreak to form a private, sheltered outdoor living area.
The low slung home comprises two rectangular blocks each side of a central hallway, with the Northern block advancing Westwards past the Southern block. While primarily single level, a sunken lounge takes advantage of the site slope, and the landscape design introduces locally inspired vegetation to settle the home into the hill.
Published: HOME NZ Feb/March 2020 “Modern Love” text by Anthony Byrt
Built By: Bayshore Builders, Queenstown
Awards
2020 Southern Architecture Awards Winner
Surface and structure combine in this home, featuring a simple and minimal design that allows the natural characteristics of its materials to be celebrated and expressed. The architecture sits lightly on the land, with rolling topography, and the living area steps down in response. The architects’ use of exposed CLT flooring and ceiling panels, with steelwork highlights internally, has delivered a project that has been carefully considered and not only provides impressive thermal performance but contributes to the texture and materiality of the home in a warm and inviting way.
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Assembly is an Arrowtown based architecture practice delivering exceptional architecture with personality, connection to landscape and considered construction.
We design homes and special projects in the Queenstown Lakes district, Wanaka and Central Otago. Current projects include heritage sensitive homes in Arrowtown, a rammed earth home in Wanaka, and distinctive new homes at Mount Cardrona Station, the Crown Terrace, Ben Lomond and Lowburn Mt Pisa.
Our homes are decidedly personal and individual, strongly connected to landscape, and expressed with detailed materiality. Design communication is huge to us. We utilise design tools that visually communicate the design in an engaging, interactive and visually realistic method.
Registered Architects Louise Wright and Justin Wright established Assembly in Wellington in 2005, and moved to Arrowtown in 2012. Our Arrowtown studio is situated on Arrow Lane in the heart of Arrowtown’s historic town centre.
The studio comprises a tight knit and talented team – Emma Schmitz, Marcus Kirk, Simon Khouri, Catarina Peeters and Matt Connolly, who together with Justin and Louise work in small teams to bring your design to life
In 2019 Assembly was a founding signatory to the NZ Architect’s Declare Climate & Biodiversity Emergency.
Assembly is a New Zealand Institute of Architects practice.