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Butel Park, to the West of Arrowtown is a residential development intended to comprise houses that reflect the historic Arrowtown Character, identified as being a simple architectural vernacular sitting on large sections completed with extensive gardens and deciduous trees, and not dominated by garage doors. Like many developments in the Wakatipu, the area is subject to design controls and a design approval process, in regard to form, roof shape and pitch, and material controls.

This home features two gabled forms, strongly articulated with protruding walls and eaves at the cedar-clad gable ends. A flat roofed link includes the bathrooms, and provides good separation between the living room and the bedrooms. Both wings open onto a central North facing courtyard.

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HOME&ENTERTAINING JUNE/JULY 2006 Text by Margo Berryman Photography by Paul McCredie

A couple returning from Australia wanted to think local with their new home outside Arrowtown. Architect Justin Wright helped them tune in to their surroundings.

“FIRST impressions are of a house in harmony with its geography, built to maximise the sun’s movement and the ever changing vistas that look out over the Millbrook Golf Resort, with the magnificent Remarkables mountain range in the far distance. Inside there is serious wow factor. “We really do feel like we are living in a rural bliss here, so it was important to ensure the views were brought into the house by framing them correctly, “ Hemingway says. “Houses around here often feature windows that are too low and which cut off the sky. Justin drew in the visual impact of the landscape, directing the views as vertical slices rather than horizontal panoramas.”

It is a modest form spiced with dramatic touches and a zealous attention to detail”

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Assembly is an Arrowtown based architecture practice delivering bespoke architecture with personality, environmental engagement and considered construction.

While the majority of our work is in housing, we have a reputation for innovation and collaboration resulting in a diverse portfolio including commercial, public and tourism projects and prefabricated buildings.

Assembly have developed expertise in many types of housing, including stand alone bespoke houses across a wide budget spectrum, housing development, and multi-generational housing. Our homes are decidedly individual, representing the diversity of clients and sites, materials and structure. We have expertise in rammed earth homes, recognized with finalist placings for the Terra Award, the first international prize for earthen architecture, and the NZ HOME of the Year.

Registered Architects Louise Wright and Justin Wright established Assembly in Wellington in 2005, and moved to Arrowtown in 2012.  The studio includes a diverse and talented team of architects, architecture graduates, architectural technicians and administrative support.

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.