By Becroft Howie Architects Ltd
This modest four-bedroom home was too small for our clients. The family of four needed a spacious family living area that could take advantage of the lovely, sunny rear garden.
The designs solution was to add a gabled addition with new kitchen and dining area to the rear of the existing house. The former kitchen and dining space provided space for a new playroom and laundry, and the existing bathrooms were updated. A new area of timber decking level with the new addition provides integration with the outdoors and a large u-shaped window seat provides a generous place to relax between the indoors and outdoors.
Structural Engineer: Charles Sue, Law Sue Davison Ltd
Geotechnical Engineers: Geoteck Solutions
Builder: Al Wilkinson, Craftsmen Builders Ltd
Becroft Howie Architects is a registered NZIA Practice committed to innovative, responsive and sustainable architectural design. The practice aims to promote the Vitruvian ideals of “firmness, commodity and delight” with a pinch of Kiwi ingenuity. We seek out opportunities for sustainable design - via creative repurposing of existing construction elements, whenever possible, and by consciously promoting architecture that is an authentic response to the site, context and our clients’ brief and budget.