2016 Auckland Architecture Awards Winner
Bramasole
This long, low house, structured within the gabion walls that intersect the site, is a composition of carefully placed cedar- clad boxes that enclose bedrooms and create courtyards and living areas. Moving through the house the experience is one of controlled transition: from open to closed spaces, from gabion-walled courtyards to covered, slatted verandas, and from dark woody interiors to open sunny decks. Raising the house just above the surrounding landscape has improved outlooks, and these views have been carefully framed. The architects have used their familiar palette to great effect on this rural site.
- Practice
- Herbst Architects Ltd
- Category
- Housing
- Location
- Auckland
