2017 Wellington Architecture Awards Winner
Home of Compassion Sisters' Housing
Set within an enclosure of bush-clad hills this secluded living retreat for the Sisters of Compassion calmly and caringly folds to enclose two sides of a garden court. Red brick columns which embrace the third edge of the court are remnants of a previous building which the new work borrows from. This charming collection of homes employs a restrained composition of materials, with their scale and humanity articulated externally via a switching angular roof. Each home overlooks the central garden court with the interiors are precisely composed through a delightful use of height and light and a judicious placement of materials.
- Practice
- Tennent Brown Architects
- Category
- Housing - Multi Unit
- Location
- Wellington
