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Roost Cottage

Situated on a prominent corner at the edge of historic Arrowtown’s commercial precinct, this (brand new) building balances heritage values dear to the heart of the Arrowtown community with modern elements for Roost mortgage advisors commercial tenancy. The Shed, Cottage and Lean to forms are derived from Arrowtown vernacular buildings, and together with a full basement provide a significant commercial tenancy in the village.

Jury Citation: A small and very clever assembly of forms complies with restrictive Arrowtown guidelines and excels at small-scale urban planning. The new stone form plays with a neighbouring rusty shed, while indoors reveals sophisticated working spaces, beautiful internal joinery and joyous pops of colour in unexpected places.

Location
Otago
Completed
2023
Building style
Cottage
Client
Roost
Awards
Southern Architecture Award Commercial Winner - 2024
Resene Colour Award - 2023
Resene Colour Award - 2024

About the
Professional

Assembly is an Arrowtown based architecture practice delivering exceptional architecture with personality, connection to landscape and considered construction.

We design homes and special projects in the Queenstown Lakes district, Wanaka and Central Otago. Current projects include heritage sensitive homes in Arrowtown, a rammed earth home in Wanaka, and distinctive new homes at Mount Cardrona Station, the Crown Terrace, Ben Lomond and Lowburn Mt Pisa.

Our homes are decidedly personal and individual, strongly connected to landscape, and expressed with detailed materiality. Design communication is huge to us. We utilise design tools that visually communicate the design in an engaging, interactive and visually realistic method.

Registered Architects Louise Wright and Justin Wright established Assembly in Wellington in 2005, and moved to Arrowtown in 2012.  Our Arrowtown studio is situated on Arrow Lane in the heart of Arrowtown’s historic town centre.

The studio comprises a tight knit and talented team – Emma Schmitz, Marcus Kirk, Simon Khouri, Catarina Peeters and Matt Connolly, who together with Justin and Louise work in small teams to bring your design to life 

In 2019 Assembly was a founding signatory to the NZ Architect’s Declare Climate & Biodiversity Emergency.

Assembly is a New Zealand Institute of Architects practice.

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