2013 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Christchurch House
This house is an elegant response to its site and an understated and respectful contribution to its spacious Fendalton context. On the façade a solid, plastered base form is balanced by dark-stained, recessed shuttered balcony spaces with small-scale copper shingle overhanging roofs, imparting a depth and texture that grounds the house on its leafy site. Clearly conceived planning orients the kitchen and living spaces toward the sun, and provides a variety of outdoor spaces sheltered from the winds. The clarity of the spatial arrangement also sets up relaxed circulation patterns between well-proportioned rooms, and lends an overall sense of ease to the interior of the home. The interior finishes and colours reinforce a quiet sense of repose, and presents this as a well-considered home.
- Practice
- Sumich Chaplin Architects Ltd
- Category
- Housing
- Location
- Canterbury
