Ostend Road by Bull O'Sullivan Architecture

Ostend Road

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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. Awards NZIA National Awards 2015 - Residential Architecture NZIA Auckland Awards 2015 - Residential Architecture Press Wood-worked Waiheke house makes the cut for design awards New Zealand Herald, 6 March 2014 A warm, thrifty and inventive Waiheke Island Home, Home NZ, Aug 2014

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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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