Clarke Award-Winning House
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Details
Project date: September 2007
Floor area: 383 sqm + decks (including garaging)
Site area: 574 sqm
Features
- Very large (70m) upper deck with sheltered courtyard to allow views through the living area to the front deck
- Boat garaging behind internal double garage
- Separate self-contained guest flat
- In-ground pool with precast concrete stair to living deck above
- Leisure activities living room for hobbies & creative interests
Products
Cladding: Light weight concrete plastered over timber & steel frame to upper level, concrete block plastered to lower level
Joinery: Aluminium stacking sliding 2.3 metre high doors, breezeway aluminium louvres with fixed glass window panes
Roofing: Butynol over ply
Balustrades: Metre high clear glass in aluminium channel
Flooring: Upper floor precast concrete with poured topping
This award-winning home consists of a long, thin and clean collection of solid masses which fit the site like a glove and show a simple intriguing composition.
Upper Living: The open, high-glazed living areas and main bedroom are all centred around a generous first floor courtyard. The effect is sophisticated one-room living seamlessly blending indoors with out. This gives the all-elusive opposites of privacy / shelter as well as light filled openness and fresh air. Decks wrap fully around front to middle courtyard, to western deck, then down to the pool. A large workroom gives a light filled studio-like space with its own deck.
On the ground floor: a sweeping steel and timber entry stair has low rise treads, like a lazy ramp, giving a sense of drama and arrival at the top. A generous boat garage is behind the cars, then guest bedrooms and a separate living room and kitchenette which lead out to the pool.
Award: Gold Reserve Award in the Premium New Homes over $1 million section of the Registered Master Builders House of the Year Awards 2008
Location: 18 Te Ngaio, Mount Maunganui, Tauranga Region, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
