By Citrus Studio Architecture
The angular paths that lead you around this vibrant urban park express a strong sense of movement and it is this active and edgy geometry that has inspired the form of the new toilets. The angled precast concrete walls are treated more as freestanding landscape elements than building walls, reinforced by floating an asymmetric butterfly roof above them, with their face ‘decorated’ with timber battens. These battens break the blank canvas temptation the walls may offer would-be taggers and extend up into the space between wall and roof to provide security.
Colour is added to the walls running between the battened panels to add a sense of fun to the structure and to connect it to the palette of the colourful playground equipment adjacent.
Citrus Studio Architecture is a practice based in Napier, working in the fields of public, commercial and residential architecture. Pride is taken in a collaborative approach to design, working alongside clients, consultants and the construction team to ensure the best result for the client and for the project.
Citrus Studio aspires to produce buildings that work, that belong, and that add to the environment in which they sit.
Function, economy, beauty and sustainability are all benchmarks that every design is tested against as it is developed. These concerns are addressed from the earliest concept ideas through to the detail design stages, where they are embodied in the construction details of the project.