2020 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Waiheke
Waiheke – the building, not the island – is the house manifest as roof. Consider a 60-metre glulam timber structure which is nearly as long as Eden Park’s rugby paddock is wide; this massive overhead roof slab levitates so as to cunningly hover a ‘mere’ 3 metres above the single level of naturally lit living. Pause, too, in order to appreciate that the roof depth is the same as the height of the living space below – solid compressing void. Imagine, then, how this roof oversails the interior by 5 metres to create a ‘panodrama’ engulfing Motutapu, Rangitoto and the Motuihe channel. Needless to say, the entry is through the roof!
- Practice
- Patterson Associates Limited
- Category
- Housing
- Location
- Auckland
