Winner – Emily Newmarch
Emily Newmarch at the 2018 awards.
Photo: David St George
Emily Newmarch, from Victoria University of Wellington, has won the 2018 NZIA Resene Student Design Awards with her project ‘Climatic conscience for dwelling design’.
Project description
This pragmatic and poetic approach to the design of a home within one of New Zealand’s coldest climates seeks to resolve design features that contribute to the aesthetic experience of the building and also reduce energy use. This is achieved by exploring two scales: a small-scale cabin, which tests the simulation parameters as well as analyses thermal consequences of different design decisions; and a medium-sized house, which tackles transforming a traditional residential programme into a home and income model, while also exercising and accentuating the relationship between architecture and landscape.
Citation
This project exhibits a deeply impressive command of technical issues built on a thoroughgoing commitment to meaningful research to produce admirable architecture as exhibited in very convincing and beautifully made models. The result of a mature investigation into building construction in New Zealand’s climates, the project ably reconciles, as its author set out to do, the pragmatic requirements and poetic possibilities of architecture.
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