2025 Auckland Architecture Awards Winner
19Q
Perched on a steep bush-clad site, this renovation to a 1980s pole house has rationalised the interior plan and streamlined the house's exterior form without adding significantly to the original footprint. By simplifying roof forms, squaring off angled walls and making minor extensions to the plan, a calmer and more ordered series of spaces has emerged. Generous existing decks have become a shuttered outdoor room that extends the available living space and celebrates the house's elevated position. Inside, soaring double-height spaces are contained and ordered by a series of slatted timber screens. This skillful reworking retains the volume and materiality of the original design, using them as a springboard for a house that is light-filled and airy with places for retreat and repose.
- Practice
- SGA Ltd - Strachan Group Architects
- Category
- Housing - Alterations and Additions
- Location
- Auckland
