2020 Auckland Architecture Awards Winner
Reef House
The Reef House brief was for a family holiday home for a mother and her three adult sons and their anticipated families. The site has extensive sea views, and the cruciform plan provides axial views and cross- ventilation, as well as a signature SGA ‘climate adjusting’ space, a low-tech, high-yield means for equalising temperature and humidity. Effectively an outdoor area, this space, with its three enclosed walls giving shelter to selected planting, captures the cross-ventilated winds and mitigates humidity over the peak of summer. The house is a series of carefully planned indoor and outdoor articulated rooms, each having well-placed windows to capture different vistas as well as offering wall space for the client’s extensive art collection. Special mention should go the client’s two sons who were builders on the project, and recently registered Architect Hana Scott who led the project admirably on site.
- Practice
- SGA Ltd - Strachan Group Architects
- Category
- Housing
- Location
- Auckland
