Martin Wallace Townhouses
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Details
Project date: 2009
Floor area: 265sqm & 222sqm + decks 135sqm & 75sqm + garaging
Site area: 561sqm & 570sqm
Features
- Strong simple unadorned timeless bach feel yet with contemporary shapes & materials
- Lightweight construction on deep piles to sit on low ground close to sea level
- Great views to the sea with large opening glass areas also opening through to a sheltered inner courtyard
- Roof viewing deck accessed from courtyard
- Wall planes visually separated from a series of separate bach roof planes give a pattern of layering like open screens
Products
Cladding: Hardies Linea bevelled back fibre cement weatherboards painted dark charcoal
Joinery: Aluminium stacking sliding 2.2 metre high doors, opening aluminium 'breezeway' brand louvres
Roofing: Corrugated coloursteel profile for low pitch (coastal rated)
Balustrades: 1m high glass in aluminium channel bolt clamped
Flooring: Timber framed with carpet & timber overlay
The owners are two sisters who asked us to design separate holiday homes on the same harbourfront site. Often the extended families will all be together at one time, so we have provided flow between the two while also ensuring each can provide privacy and security when needed.
The format we have suggested is two side-by-side timber framed townhouses with an intriguing central connecting courtyard. This was chosen over a 'one above the other' approach partly to give everyone an easy connection to the ground and to the beach across the quiet lane. The families have been coming here for years and wanted to keep the simple bach-on-the ground feel, rather than an apartment.
The relatively narrow long site has meant splitting the two buildings apart with a wedge shape open between. Light and afternoon sun is brought into the left hand townhouse by the glazing in the courtyard. This is another main reason the building is divided in two. Privacy and sharing are both successfully achieved to create a wonderful space for friends and family to enjoy.
Location: 46 The Esplanade, Omokoroa, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
