Sawtooth, Queenstown

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Atop a terrace overlooking the Shotover River, a line of symmetry runs North /South dividing a view between natural and structured landscape. Along it a repetitive rhythm of panels enclose space for a family of six and a collection of art.

A horizontal datum separates texture like the alpine tree line. Above the datum the roof borrows from nearby ridgelines in form and detail.  An Eastern sloped ridgeline is abstracted through repetition. Texture is rugged and random, carved with deep shadow lines, the material will patina in time.

Winter sun angles define the ceiling shape, carving through the roof from. The shaped ceiling creates moments of compression, defining space for different functions.

The planning and form reflects the owners’ concept of family.  Parents and kids are independent yet close. The central corridor is a shared space for family interaction. The sawtooth roof form is singular yet defined by its parts.

AWARDS

New Zealand Institute of Architects Southern Architecture Award 2017

PUBLISHED 

HOUSES Magazine Edition 49, Spring 2018

Eco Home by Melinda Williams, published by Penguin Random House, 2018

Assembly Architects
Arrowtown, Otago

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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.