Shearwater Apartments
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Details
Project date: 2006
Floor area: Three apartments: 277m2 + 70m2 (top floor) 235m2 + 70m2 (middle floor) 244m2 + 70m2 (ground floor) + garaging &260m2 storage
Site area: 800 sqm
Features
- Courtyard decks between bedrooms & living providing long vistas to sea views
- Sheltered living decks for both onshore & offshore breezes
- Strong simple forms with balanced overall composition
- Carefully composed variation in claddings: plaster, linea weatherboards, steel pergolas
- Motorised opening louvre veranda roofs to seaward decks
- Raised roof sections to give high volumes, good proportion & light into the large living rooms
Products
Cladding: Lightweight concrete panels over timber frame, concrete block (all plastered)
Joinery: Aluminium stacking sliders
Roofing: Butynol on plywood
Balustrades: Aluminium stanchions, clear glass
Flooring: Concrete precast to upper floors
Our brief was to design three apartments on a very long, thin beachfront site. The apartments needed to appeal to a wide market as they were to be built for sale. Making the most of the fantastic sea views was a priority for this project so we used a proven apartment format that Will had developed on other long sites - two parallel apartments on the middle and bottom level and one apartment on the top level. Garaging is behind on the lower level of three storeys.
Adding in courtyard recesses was a crucial factor in the success of these long thin shapes. The courtyards have been used successful here, as you will see from the photos above, as long vistas are possible through to the sea. The feeling in these rooms is spacious, airy and uplifting.
Location: 389 Oceanbeach Road, Mount Maunganui
