2024 Wellington Architecture Awards Winner
Sar Street House
The design for this new home responds to its location within a community enclave, the opportunities and challenges of a steep site with harbour views, and a desire to explore detail and craft. Located 30 metres above the street, the approach presents an introduction to the neighbourhood, which the architect celebrates and enhances. Entry to the home proper is fittingly informal: past a courtyard that invites pause when doors are open and fire aflame. Living areas are strung out on an east-west axis connecting to harbour views and the wider cityscape at one end, hunkering into that arrival courtyard at the other. This tension between grounding and extension informs the design at all levels and is exemplified in the interiors, which are highly detailed yet organic and informal.
- Practice
- Parsonson Architects
- Category
- Housing
- Location
- Wellington
