2023 Wellington Architecture Awards Winner
RK Residence
This five-bedroom home sets a new bar for a prime harbour-front location. Well-organised planning places a single-storey main living space at the front and two levels of bedrooms to the rear, linked by a glazed corridor and courtyard. The living form has a low-slung asymmetrical gabled roof, exquisitely articulated with a blade-like edge where the roof meets the wall. The roof/wall junction is a datum that runs through the house and is slavishly controlled through material modules. Macrocarpa rafters and sarking achieve a cathedral-like feel, further enhanced by skylight panels over the dining area. This house is a finely tuned piece of modern design and detailing, which demonstrates that the builder’s craftsmanship and planning are more than up to the task.
- Practice
- Seear-Budd Ross Ltd
- Category
- Housing
- Location
- Wellington
