2025 Wellington Architecture Awards Winner
Maupuia
Perched on a dramatic, wind-swept wellington hill overlooking Evans Bay and the planes landing at the airport, this resilient family home balances affordability, durability, and sustainability with warmth and comfort. Designed and built through the challenges of COVID and an expanding family, the project delivers high-performance living in an extreme wind zone with acoustic engineering and prefabricated elements for efficiency and longevity. Lots of locally sourced timbers, Colorsteel cladding, and passive solar principles ensure low maintenance and energy efficiency, while building two identical properties to replace the run-down previous house allowed the finances to stack up. Despite its demanding constraints this home fosters a connection to the landscape and community, demonstrating how sustainable, cost-effective architecture can thrive in Wellington’s most challenging conditions.
- Practice
- Makers of Architecture Limited
- Category
- Housing
- Location
- Wellington
