2017 Auckland Architecture Awards Winner
Tree Villa
This is a deliberately disruptive addition to an inner-city, heritage-protected villa, disturbing not the villa itself but the typical villa extension approach of establishing an uninterrupted flow from kitchen / dining / living to back yard. This brave and complex addition instead breaks the single floor level into high and low half-levels, creating some abrupt spatial terminations which are not always successful but in places are superb. Some areas are treated with humour, others with seriousness. This award celebrates architectural experimentation, and a daring move by an architect on his own home.
