Hope Apartment

By Archimedia

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Objective: Clarity, order, calm, refuge, abstracted form, monochromatic palette, gallery for art collection, atmospheric setting for entertaining high above the city, operable open plan, easy transition from indoor to outdoor spaces, facilities to work from home, autonomous guest suite.

Solution: Simple formal gestures assist a sequence of spaces to unfold, linking: entry primary volume, entry to office space and entry to guest and master bedrooms. A sculptural background embraces and focuses on the panoramic view. Clear, uncluttered spaces are achieved through each active precinct having a separate passive support space containing services and / or storage. Highly considered objects are placed into primary volumes.

A continuous sequence of private and social spaces is created in a series of precincts related to events in the occupants lifestyle: bedroom / bathroom, kitchen / day living, entry, formal dining, formal sitting, TV room, entry / office and guest suite. The living spaces are conceived as a single space extending to the edge of the balconies, with an intermediary exterior skin operable with layers of filtering elements:

  • Sliding timber shutters
  • Sliding tinted glass doors
  • Shear curtains
  • Sunscreen blinds
  • Internal translucent sliding screens

Auckland:  2001

Project Team

  • Lindsay Mackie
  • Tony Bouwmeister

Photography:  Simon Devitt

Press & Awards

  • NZIA Local Award for Architecture 2004
  • DINZ Best Awards Interior Design 2004

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Hope Apartment

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Archimedia is a New Zealand architecture practice with NZRAB and Green Star accredited staff, offering design services in the disciplines of architecture, interiors and ecology.

Archimedia uses the word “ecology” to extend the concept of sustainability to urban design and master planning and integrates this holistic strategy into every project.

Archimedia prioritises client project requirements, functionality, operational efficiency, feasibility, and programme. Once these fundamentals are soundly established, Archimedia pursues a sculptural architecture expressive of individual or collective identity.

Identity

  • Archimedia practices architecture as “material identity” – a crafted expression of individual or collective “identity” – embodying a synthesis of people, place and time.
  • Archimedia investigates “identity” with each client and endows buildings with a perceptible meaning that expresses this “identity” – the philosophical parti for all Archimedia projects.
  • Archimedia respects all cultures and their protocols and the fundamental connectedness of all humanity.

Human Experience

  • Archimedia is ambitious for the betterment of both humankind and the environment.
  • Archimedia approachs design with the intent that human beings register an “experience” of architecture which uplifts their daily existence.

Environment

  • Archimedia strives for “beauty”, the exceptional and the inspirational in each and every commission, irrespective of budget.
  • Archimedia believes in tectonics – a poetic configuration of land, space and structure.
  • Archimedia believes in positive intervention – sustainability that enhances eco-systems.

Process

  • Archimedia believes that the very best process and the very best technology are critical contributors in our quest for the exceptional.
  • Archimedia invests resources to create a better design solution.

Collaboration

  • Archimedia believes in collaboration between equals and the power of teamwork.
  • Archimedia's staff are consultative by nature and use processes that encourage user decision making wherever possible.