2020 Western Architecture Awards Winner
Papaioea Place Social Housing
This housing project achieves economic and environmentally sustainable objectives in tandem with a level of design that elevates Papaieoia Place well beyond other social housing in the region. The award recognises the commitment of the client, Palmerston North City Council, in bringing together the architects with a housing supply builder – a process more commonplace in larger cities and with larger budgets – that should be applauded as innovative. The result is modern housing that, while simple in form and layout, meets an extremely tight budget. Replacing homes for a community of residents already located on this site, the project delivers both collective and individual housing identity. A bold colour palette has been applied to differentiate each unit, and consideration has been given to unit orientation, separation, screening, and landscaping to provide spatial layering in the critical buffer zones between private and public areas.
- Practice
- Boon Limited
- Category
- Housing - Multi Unit
- Location
- Western
