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Hill House

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A thoughtfully designed home that maximizes views and outdoor living, overcoming site challenges while ensuring low maintenance and a connection to nature for a growing family.

A home designed around overcoming a very tricky and tight site. Our brief was to ensure we created a house with multiple external spaces for outdoor living all year round, creating a simple and clean material palette and working with/for a long time client and collaborator, the home speaks for its self.

An extensive amount of time was spent designing around heights to ensure we maximised the available views without negatively impacting on the neighbours. There were also substantial geotechnical challenges to be overcome. With all builds we pride ourselves on ensuring the constructability plays a key role, and discussions on detailing, material selection, maintenance, and practicality were commonplace.

Deliberately maximising views and daylighting. We wanted to enable Flexible interior design to provide a suitable space for changing family dynamics. Among that was a separate accommodation wing.

The result is a building that has a sense of relaxation that comes from use of materials and is connected with the natural environment with a Low maintenance result ready for the family to enjoy with security and intimacy from neighbouring views.

2530h 46m

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“For more than 15 years, the architect has made a contribution that goes well beyond a typical design engagement. Heritage preservation, the drafting of funding submissions and physical contributions to the internal preservation work were all part of a role that has resulted in an enhanced building preserved for future generations. This discreet structural upgrade retains the integrity of the original building. Carbon-fibre, inserted behind exceptional whakairo (carved wooden panels) helps bring the church up to code.”

NZIA Gisborne Hawkes Bay Architecture Award (2016) - Toku Toru Tapu

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