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Rangatira.

ArchiPro Project Summary - Contemporary housing development on Rangatira Road, Beach Haven, featuring 15 thoughtfully designed units that prioritize functionality, privacy, and landscaping, completed in 2019 by Gel Architects for 588 Development Ltd.

Title:: Rangatira
Architect:: Gel Architects
Category:: Residential/; New Builds
Completed:: 2019
Building style:: Contemporary
Client:: 588 Development Ltd
Photographers:: Gel ArchitectsMark Scowen Photography

With the 2016 Unitary Plan, this subdivision, positioned on a sunny slope in Beach Haven, came under the Mixed Housing Urban Zone with dwellings up to three stories allowed. This exciting project on Rangatira Road provided an ideal opportunity for Gel Architects to demonstrate that housing intensification can be done well, with clever design and high-quality materials.

This project began in late 2016 with the intention of maximising the site without comprising functionality, privacy, outlook, and sun aspects. Two quarter-acre sections, with one dwelling apiece, were combined to create 15 units.

Being sympathetic to neighbours was a major consideration when approaching this development. Landscaping became very important, with targeted plantings along the fence line to create privacy and soften the impact of the buildings on the surrounding neighbourhood.

Project Team: Graeme Wrack, Sekai Walls, Bruce Abernethy

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Gel Architects. We design unique, site-specific, creative solutions and produce innovative, buildable and cost-effective results. We are committed to excellence in every aspect of our work. At Gel we love architecture, and we know that considered design can help shape the fabric of our communities for the better. We design homes and workplaces that are beautiful to look at, practical to build, and a joy to live and work in. We are new home, urban regeneration and masterplanning specialists. Sustainability is in the DNA of all our projects, with considerations such as efficient land use, using locally-sourced products, optimising solar access and reducing waste at the forefront of our thinking. Gel Architects are an NZIA (New Zealand Institute of Architects) registered practice.