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Moore Sharp House

This house is a redesign of a beloved family home that was damaged during the Canterbury Earthquakes of 2010 and 2011.  The clients wanted to build a new house to meet their changing needs, both now and in the years to come.  We addressed this by maximising the orientation of the home for sun, and shelter from the wind, whilst allowing scope to downsize and further develop the site in future.

The design creates a large double height family room, including the kitchen, dining and living.  A library / reading room can be accessed from the same space, as can two separate small home offices.  The layout includes a gallery space that links the main living and work areas to the bedroom wing, affording long views through the house to the street and gardens beyond.

Photography by Virginia Woolf.

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JTB Architects is an award-winning NZIA Registered practice, founded in Nelson in 1986. We now work from studios in Auckland, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch and Wānaka, on projects around New Zealand. We design beautiful contemporary buildings of all sizes and across a broad range of project types.

Design-led
We are a design-led practice which is committed to understanding and responding to our client’s needs with professionalism, energy and creativity. With each project we aim to find the optimum balance between sustainability, value and design quality, based on our client’s priorities. We design robust and durable buildings without compromising aesthetic quality.

Committed to sustainability
Innovation forms a central part of our approach in relation to materials technology and energy use. We are members of the New Zealand Green Building Council, and our business is also EKOS Zero Carbon for Business Operations.

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