Brightwell Apartments
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Details
Project date: 2005
Floor area: 427sqm (3 apartments) + upper decks 107m2 + garaging 142m2
Site area: 385sqm
Features
- Acoustic floor on lightweight timber framing
- Cladding combinations to give strong simple shapes to the street frontage
- A domestic scale & features such as the high glazing under the 'floating' roof
Products
Cladding: Lightweight concrete on timber frame, plastered
Joinery: Aluminium silver star
Roofing: Corrugated coloursteel
Balustrades: Custom aluminium stanchions, glass
Flooring: Particle board with lightweight concrete panels for sound proofing
Our brief was to design four apartments of varying sizes on this small site. The apartments have stunning views over the town to the harbour. The approach taken was to aim for the scale to be that of large single house or villa - rather than a group of apartments.
Location: 25 Victoria Road, Mount Maunganui, Tauranga Region, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
