2022 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Waterhouse Family Home
This nurturing family home delivers on the opportunities of a difficult site. The organisational strategy accepts the steep topography, using the central stair as a wayfinding device and to order a complex layered geometry. Spatially dynamic areas interconnect around the stair below the dramatic sloping roof. The house opens to a series of connected outdoor areas, embracing the site and interconnecting, where possible, with its immediate neighbours. Ventilation and solar gain are carefully considered and controlled by bespoke openings and shutters. The house is materially rich and joyfully detailed, benefitting from the craft and attention given to elements designed, fabricated and installed by the owners.
- Practice
- Bull O'Sullivan Architecture Ltd
- Category
- Housing
- Location
- Waikato/Bay of Plenty
