2020 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Sawtooth Apartment
This addition to an existing commercial base reveals an excellent understanding and control of light. An unconventional section provides a simple solution on a site where northern light is not available by bringing both eastern and western light into the interior of this small apartment addition. The exterior expression of the sawtooth form seems to extend and unfold unexpectedly into a lowered central section, providing light from two directions to each main space. The qualities expressed in the section have then translated with ease into the plan, with a concentration of service areas to the core, living areas to each end, and wedge forms elegantly containing the exposed deck edges.
- Practice
- Sayes Studio Ltd
- Category
- Housing - Alterations and Additions
- Location
- Auckland
