Salamanca House
By Parsonson Architects
The land was subdivided from a larger property, which contained an existing historically listed house designed and lived in by the NZ Government Architect John Campbell in the early 1900’s. The new house is arranged to be lower and more subservient to the original
house while at the same time relating to it formally. The site is small, tight and steep with many local authority restrictions and the new house was required to fit within these.
The resultant dwelling fully maximizes the site. Space for the bedrooms and garaging is excavated below, forming a base for the lighter living spaces to rest on. These forms are clad in zinc and sliced and folded to focus views out to the harbour and diagonally to the trees, while at the same time providing a sense of enclosure and privacy.
Photographer: Patrick Reynolds.
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Parsonson Architects was established in 1987 and is based in Wellington, New Zealand. The practice has focused primarily on individual houses and aims to produce work with a high level of sensitivity and discipline, engaging the spirit of each owner and site. More recently projects have included apartment buildings, retail fit outs in North America and Europe and competition entries across a variety of building types and project scales.
The practice is recognised as consistently delivering work of excellence, represented by the major awards and regular features in both local and international architecture and design publications.
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