Seatoun House II
This four-bedroom family home was designed for family life, entertaining and also for work. It features a commercial kitchen for the client’s catering business. Deftly balancing these multiple functions, the home is a perfect setting for hosting friends and family without sacrificing its main role as a private family sanctuary.
There is an easy connection between interior and exterior spaces; the open plan kitchen and family areas seamlessly leading to sheltered outdoor living spaces.
The lofty dining room is a feature, as is the warm and intimate lounge area. Layering of flat roof planes to allow clerestories and high level glazing has allowed exceptional transparency (and effective passive solar heating) without loss of a sense of robust shelter.
“…this elegant home continues its restraint inside… A beautiful home that is a successful stage for the family,” NZIA Awards Jury, 2006.
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Herriot Melhuish O’Neill Architects is an NZIA award-winning practice with studios in Wellington, Christchurch, Auckland and Tauranga. Established in 1997, our rich portfolio of commercial and residential work demonstrates a strong commitment to creating beautifully-crafted architecture that enhances the lives of those who experience our buildings – both inside and out.
We believe that enduring architecture is a delicate balance of factors – our clients’ needs and aspirations, our professional training and expertise, the history and nature of the site – but also intuition and commonsense. Every design decision, from materials to how the building complements the landscape, matters to us and adds to the experiential qualities of our projects.
Directors Max Herriot and John Melhuish in Wellington, Duval O'Neill in Christchurch and Matt Pearson in Auckland are committed to the best architectural design practices. HMOA Associate and registered architect Jenny Duck runs the Tauranga studio.
As well as new homes and house renovations, we have experience in the education, recreation, heritage, health and hospitality sectors, office interiors, multi-unit developments, civil projects and master-planning.
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