Private Home, Takapuna
By Smith Architects
Sited within the desirable location of Takapuna is the design of a contemporary and modern residential building. The expression of the facade is enhanced with deep entrances, accentuating the extensively glazed portions and clean geometric form. Full height doors and windows create seamless indoor-outdoor movement, as the building opens to a private outdoor space consisting of gardens, decks and a swimming pool for leisure and entertainment.
The levels are stacked with extruding geometric forms, creating a subtle canopy to accommodate for the external decking spaces below. Here the choice of a muted colour palette was favourable to emphasise the character of the contemporary design.
Internally, the layout is linear and open plan to allow for free progression. The division of programmes across three floors within the design allows for functions such as bedrooms and bathrooms to remain private, here the inclusion of a central void on the top floor suggestively separates the bedrooms from one another, while giving the ground floor a double-height space suitable for common gathering.
While the extensively glazed portions of the building add to the aesthetics of the overall design, they function to allow an abundance of natural sunlight into the heart of the home, natural ventilation and passive cooling strategies have been addressed throughout the design as the large sliding doors can be opened up during summer to circulate fresh and cool air.
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Client: Private
Location: Takapuna, Auckland
Construction cost: Confidential
Area: 425m²
Programme: In progress
Project Team: Phil Smith, John Moran
Construction: Residential & Bespoke Projects
Engineer: MSC Consulting Engineers
Interiors: Trinity Interior Design
Materials: PrecastHQ
Photography: John Williams
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Smith Architects is an award-winning international architectural practice creating beautiful human spaces that are unique, innovative and sustainable through creativity, refinement, and care.
Phil and Tiffany Smith established the practice in 2007. We have spent more than two decades striving to understand what makes some buildings more attractive than others, in the anticipation that it can help us design better buildings.
Recent advances in neuroscience and psychology have enabled scientists to unlock some of the reasons why we find certain works of art, objects and environments more attractive than others, and at the heart of it is simple Darwinian theory: if we find something attractive we will be more likely to choose that thing over another – be it a painting, a piece of music, a landscape or even a building.
At Smith Architects, we use these learning to inform our designs, striving to create beauty in everything we do, in the belief that beautiful spaces create better environments for human beings or ‘beautiful human spaces’.
We carefully integrates architectural, landscape, interior and furniture design skills to ensure projects achieve an holistic integrity that meets our client’s needs. At the core of our design rigour, we believe that modern, sustainable, research-based design delivers a successful project with innovative solutions that work for our clients.
Our Auckland, New Plymouth, and Arrowtown offices design and deliver projects ranging from refurbishments to new-builds; from domestic scale to urban master plans; from conception to completion. Our experience covers a broad range of typologies – masterplans, mixed-use schemes, residential; offices; cultural; educational; healthcare and childcare.
We work with a diverse client base, including developers, private, government and charities and have experience of working with multiple stakeholders on challenging sites around the world.
We are a member of the New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA), the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the New Zealand Green Building Council (NZGBC), Site Safe New Zealand, and the Sustainability Business Network.
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