2022 Auckland Architecture Awards Winner
The Tent
The brief called for a modestly sized Fitness and Wellness Centre tucked into the sand dunes of the Tara Iti Golf Course. Sensitively responding to this landscape, the fitness pavilion assumes the form of a tent, one whose simplicity delightfully nestles into the undulating profile of the dunes. With an innovative, sheltering fabric roof stretched out beyond the glazed weather enclosure, and propped up with jauntily angled kauri posts, the pavilion cleverly merges with its surrounds. The simplicity of the gesture and intent here belies the compliance challenges this small project overcomes. Whimsical and uncompromising, this building inspires no less than it fits its purpose.
- Practice
- Studio John Irving
- Category
- Small Project Architecture
- Location
- Auckland
