Red Beach Two Storey Terraces
By Smith Architects
Lining on side of Taikua Ave Park in Red Beach, is the quality-built design of two-storey terraced homes for Fletcher Living.
To complement the other designs that surround the park, we adopted a simple gable form again, but with a two-tone colour palette.
The design of each residential building unit consists of high-quality materials and fabrication methods. The choice of a neutrally toned material palette throughout the interior and exterior creates a naturally warm and inviting space for the residence. The material variation between buildings are used to provide a contrast over a large scale of the development.
Variations within the design scheme allows for the development of a ranging and diverse neighbourhood.
The idea of gable roof structures was to help identify with New Zealand Vernacular architecture, creating a home-base to which the people of red beach can identify with.
For further variety, the terraces are a mix of two and four bedrooms homes, grouped in sets of four to five homes, all facing the lake. The homes feature large picture windows to maximise views and enhance daylight and ventilation.
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Client: Fletcher Residential
Location: Red Beach, Auckland, New Zealand
Construction cost: Confidential
Area: 90-150m²
Programme: Completed 2020
Project Team: Phil Smith, John Moran, Zena Gerrard
Construction: Fletcher Residential
Landscaper: Natural Habitats
Image Credit: Fletcher Residential
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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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