The project brief asked for two houses on the same site, each with a three car garage, with the larger house accommodating four bedrooms for the clients and their grown children. The second house was to accommodate two / three bedrooms and became affectionately referred to as the “dinghy”.
The Lovell Health House by Richard Neutra served as a precedent. The massing of the form was arranged around a central piazza, which allowed for the comfortable maneuvering of vehicles and unified the arrangement of the two dwellings. The horizontal banding between light and dark that binds the two dwellings serves to diminish the bulk of the larger dwelling. The house was constructed with pre-cast concrete, plaster on cavity block and anthra zinc on plywood.
The base of the house was clad in honed basalt. The pre-cast ʻfinsʼ serve to lead the visitor into the entry of the main house. Inside the house, the architectural arrangement of space and controlled palette provides a backdrop and counterpoint for the ownerʼs flamboyant taste.
Designers: Daniel Marshall, Mike Hartley, Daniel Lewis
Photographer: Simon Devitt
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We are DMA. We create carefully crafted architecture in NZ and abroad to seamlessly integrate people and place.
Daniel Marshall Architects (DMA) is an Auckland-based practice who are passionate about designing high quality and award-winning New Zealand architecture. Our work has been published in periodicals and books internationally as well as numerous digital publications, including ArchDaily.com – the world’s most visited architectural website.
Daniel leads a core team of four individually accomplished designers who skillfully collaborate to resolve architectural projects from their conception through to their occupation. DMA believes architecture is a ‘generalist’ profession which engages with all components of an architectural project; during conceptual design, documentation and construction phases.
We pride ourselves on being able to holistically engage with a complex of architectural issues to arrive at a design solution equally appropriate to its context (site and surrounds) and the unique ways in which our clients prefer to live.
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