Stanleys Road House
By Sheppard & Rout Architects
After purchasing an extensive site in Harewood the clients approached Sheppard & Rout to design a new home that would become the gathering and entertaining place of their adult children and friends. The result is a home that is equally as expansive as the site, designed and built to the highest of quality.
The house is centred around a voluminous entrance gallery from which numerous formal and informal living and entertaining spaces flow from, as well as more intimate bedroom and study spaces. From this core, secondary zones such as the guest suite, pool and related facilities, and garaging wing extend themselves to take in the sprawling landscape. Most of the home’s spaces open onto equally generous outdoor courtyards or terraces to further anchor the low-lying home in the landscape.
While the home stylistically taking cues from the international modernist movement; shutters, the frequent use of angles, and openings punched into the deep façade reveal a playful side to the home’s exacting appearance. Internally, the use of stone and extensive use of timber provide visual warmth to the generous spaces.
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We aim to produce humanist architecture comprised of stimulating and inspirational spaces and places.
We are a design-based practice that believes in providing tailor-made solutions to an individual client's needs. The fundamental objective of the practice is to develop architecture that is appropriate to its specific site, wider context and intended use while being robust, flexible and environmentally-aware.
These variables are used along with the appropriate structural considerations to develop buildings with well-suited form and style, instead of approaching the design from a stylistic standpoint.
The practice was established in 1982 in Christchurch by David Sheppard and Jonty Rout. In its 40 years the practice has carried out a wide range of projects covering many types and in numerous geographic locations. The founding partners brought to the practice extensive design and construction experience gained while working with other offices in both New Zealand and overseas. Tim Dagg joined Sheppard & Rout in 1986 and Jasper van der Lingen in 1993 and they both joined David Sheppard as Directors in 2006.
With David Sheppard now retired and Jonty very sadly passed away the practice is led by Directors Jasper van der Lingen and Tim Dagg and three Associate Directors; Matt Gutsell, Jonathan Kennedy and Steven Orr.