Castor Bay House
By X Studio
Our client approached us with a beautiful site in Castor Bay along the Eastern coast featuring a front seat view of Rangitoto in which he intended to build a home on for his grandparents to retire. The Beach Road Villa delivers an architectural response by harmonizing the two most conflicting factors at play: the steepness of the site and the requirement for a fully accessible home. Where a typical approach to the site would be to develop split levels along the length of the building, this entire house sits level with the garage to eliminate all interior step thresholds and a central lift carries the users between the floors to completely remove any physical limitations of access.
Size: 380 m2 site - Building platform of 240m2
Completion Date: 2020
Credits: Design & Project by Han & Owen
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X Studio is a creative, young architecture firm founded in 2016 by Owen Xing. Our team consists of architectural designers with extensive building experience throughout many years in the industry across New Zealand, China and Europe.
We specialise in residential architecture with projects ranging from private lifestyle house to high density subdivisions.
The studio is always working in close collaboration with planners, builders, engineers and many other consultants within the field to deliver successful design solutions that are client-focused and make a lasting contribution to the built environment of tomorrow.
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