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Minor Dwelling + Loft

Maximising space for a young family - 2022

This Minor dwelling or Minor Housing Unit (MHU) creates a moderate family home by coupling a main dwelling with a SIPs double car garaging plus loft / storage space.

In close proximity to the extended family home, this independent semi off-grid home was achievable on family land, and utilises a high-performance envelope and efficient plan to create comfortable affordable family living.

  • Location: Dairy Flat, Auckland
  • Building Footprint: 125m²
  • Size: 180m², 2-bedroom, 1 bathroom + loft studio
  • Foundation/floor: Insulated waffle slab with warm edge
  • Cladding: Profiled sheet metal roof & walls + thermally modified pine
  • Windows: Thermally broken aluminium with laminated double glazing
  • Power & Heating: Mains connected. Under floor heating (hydronic in-slab)
  • Wastewater: On-site black & grey water treatment
  • Freshwater: Filtered rainwater
Completed
2022
Price to build
$0.5m - $1m
Building style
Modern
Client
Family Look

Professionals used in Minor Dwelling + Loft

About the
Professional

At Vitruvion we design and build sustainable high performance housing for you to enjoy now and for future generations.

Using Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) with other manufactured systems our buildings are faster to build onsite, more durable, and cost less to run.

Better for you, better for the planet.

Your home should reflect you, your taste, your site, your budget, without compromising performance.

​Choose one of our customisable designs, we’ll individualise it for you and you get to build and move in more quickly. Or we can architecturally design a home that’s perfect for you and your site.

View our designs and completed homes on at www.vitruvion.co.nz 

or you can contact us now at Talk2Us@vitruvion.nz 

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