2025 Auckland Architecture Awards Winner
Sand Boxes
Casually stepping up its wooded site, this timber building evokes being in an elegant treehouse. The journey up to the principal living areas is rewarded with beautiful views over the canopy of mature pōhutukawa below. A choreographed series of terraces of skillfully controlled laminated timber post and beam construction orchestrate spatial drama and support a series of fixed and operable layers, which control light and privacy while providing textual richness. The real triumph of this building is the variable quality of light as you move vertically through the interior, an experience reminiscent of being within a forest canopy.
- Practice
- Herbst Maxcey Metropolitan Architects Ltd
- Category
- Housing
- Location
- Auckland
