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Jeremy Hanson talks of the villa's consistent habit of facing the world with both its richest work and the welcoming verandah, which gives a human scale and a sense of generous ambience for all.  

With this family home we turned the villa inside out, back to front, kept the scrim, the bay window and the meat box. Along came a brewery, a worm farm and a chicken run.

This villa has 3 woods, kauri, cedar and pine, and a skin of corrugated iron.

Built on a tight budget and a family growing, it captures everything Jeremy references with human scale, a leaning south wall (for leaning on) and ambience for all children young and old to engage with the love of the land.

It’s a little bit of England in the South pacific.

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  • NZIA National Awards 2015 - Residential Architecture
  • NZIA Auckland Awards 2015 - Residential Architecture

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The BOS Practice is driven by the pursuit of quality - a belief that our surroundings directly influence the quality of our lives, whether in the workplace, at home or the public spaces and structures in between. It is not just buildings but urban design that affects our wellbeing. We are concerned with the physical context of a project, sensitive to the culture and climate of their place. We have applied the same priorities from housing to education to furniture.

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These, after all, are the elements of the environment that we physically touch every day of our lies. The BOS Practice believes the quality of a project is not necessarily related to how much it costs, but rather how wisely the resources of time and money are spent. The setting of standards is more about an attitude of mind in defining goals and honouring commitments. In that sense the most important things have not changed - in particular the philosophy of quality and optimism at the most personal of levels.