2023 Wellington Architecture Awards Winner
The Screen House
The street-façade proportions of this multi-level urban house have been subtly rearranged and renewed to increase privacy, while also enriching the texture and materiality of its central city streetscape. Subtle but successful exterior changes included raising the sill height of the top-level living-room window and adding a randomised-pattern metal-screen breezeway along the main bedroom façade, creating mosaic-like sunlight effects on the first-level interior spaces. Inclusion of a catamaran net strung over the double-height entry volume provides a playful opportunity to inhabit air space.
- Practice
- McKenzie Higham Architects
- Category
- Housing - Alterations and Additions
- Location
- Wellington
