2017 Auckland Architecture Awards Winner
Point Chevalier House
This walled courtyard house departs from New Zealand residential traditions to provide a rapidly-intensifying suburb with a powerful yet restrained housing model. Building close to the two street boundaries has allowed for the arrangement of living spaces around a courtyard, a strategy discouraged by New Zealand’s residential planning laws. The use of red brick alludes to the local State Houses of the 1950s, yet more strongly describes small-scale community buildings, again reinforcing the area’s new urban edge. The simplicity of the diagram has not been over-complicated with programme, resulting in a modest yet texturally rich home.
- Practice
- Guy Tarrant Architects
- Category
- Housing
- Location
- Auckland
