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2015 NZIA Architecture Award Education, Western Region

Jump Start Day Care is a building that meets the tight cost constraints and industrial location through the use a simple form and basic materials while creating a rich diversity of space within.

At each extreme of the volume winter gardens are used to provide intermediate play spaces that can be used throughout the year. The services areas are positioned to the south under a 2.4m high stud while the main internal teaching, reading and eating areas inhabit the full height of the volume and the associated full hieght windows. The simple fitout in strandboard linings is punctuated by splashes of colour

Photos by: Russell Kleyn

Bonnifait + Associates Architects
Wellington
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Atelierworkshop was founded in 2000 on a plurality of thoughts and languages as a working process. The collaborative has different and diverse architectural experience in various parts of the world that combine professional work and research.

Their approach is orientated towards reconnecting people with a physical reality, a territory, its history and a cultural context. Over 23 years in practice they have developed a portfolio from bespoke residential and commercial boutique architecture to light industrial development, regenerative tourism and eco farm development.

“Our architecture seeks to reveal the landscape and the environment through innovation and common sense. Our projects are developed from a concern for forming one body with the site. Without compromising on design, we put priority on finding sustainable solutions".