Winners: Nelson and Marlborough Structure Awards 2023

Eleven structure tasks throughout seven classes, have been named Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Structure Native Awards winners at an occasion on Friday 26 Could at The Suter Artwork Gallery in Nelson.

Rural Workshop Structure gained three awards throughout three classes. Their Actual Workspace, an workplace area that integrates wellness structure practices, gained within the Business Structure class; Awatere Hilltop Home, a fantastically remoted dwelling that mirrors the encompassing hills, gained within the Housing class; and Head of the Bay home gained within the Housing — Alterations and Additions class, for a understated transform of a bunk room and bach within the Marlborough Sounds.

Jerram Tocker Barron Architects took away three awards. New Zealand Wine Centre — Te Pokapū Wāina o Aotearoa, a analysis and schooling centre for grape and wine analysis on the native Institute of Know-how, gained within the Training class, whereas Maitahi Quarter Townhouses, a multi-unit mission that overlooks Nelson’s Maitai River, gained the Housing — Multi Unit class. And Motueka Public Library — Te Noninga Kumu, impressed by the standard types of rural farm buildings, gained within the Public Structure class.

Karamea Space Faculty, designed by MOAA Architects, was deemed the winner of the Training class. The brand new faculty is a utilitarian and delightful group hub for the small city of Karamea (inhabitants roughly 400), and a faculty for Years 1-13.

William Samuels Architects’ Studio Home, a novel 42m² dwelling with a really tight building price range, confirmed a residence will be reasonably priced and architecturally vital, by successful an award within the Housing class.

Cellar One, created for Cloudy Bay Vineyards by Paul Rolfe Architects and an exquisite winemaking facility and eating space, gained the Business Structure class.

Lastly, two buildings acquired Enduring Structure awards: Alpine Lodge, St Arnaud (1984) by architect Ian Jack, a lodge made up of flats, rooms, a restaurant and a playground; and Pohara Corridor in Golden Bay (1971), a Seventies’ gem by the late modernist architect Alex Bowman.

A jury of 4 judges — Siân Taylor of Workforce Inexperienced Architects, Jonathan Fraser of Studio Pacific, and architect Sarah Pickens — assessed this yr’s tasks, and the jury was convened by architect Min Corridor.

“All the tasks we visited responded to the comparatively rural nature of the area and we tended to see buildings that mirrored that attribute fairly strongly, even within the residential classes. The architects have taken the agricultural vernacular as a information, utilizing easy pragmatic types,” says Min Corridor.

“There was additionally an encouraging consciousness of environmental and sustainable points total, and we have been happy to see rather more openness to acknowledging te ao Māori within the public tasks.”

The successful tasks are:

Housing

Awatere Hilltop Home by Rural Workshop Structure

A easy but sturdy idea of two purple sheds on the sting of a hilltop maximises the expansive sea-to-mountains views to the south, whereas containing a small, sheltered courtyard to the north. Intelligent inside planning optimises a decent footprint to make sure the home feels each welcoming and roomy. The overhanging corrugate roof/wall intersection removes the requirement for gutters, permitting rainwater to drip right into a hid drain and disperse naturally.

The architect has fastidiously thought of kind, building and companies to make sure this home is heat and makes use of minimal vitality. This can be a intelligent and enticing design utilizing compact types to reply strongly to consumer, website and atmosphere.

Resene Color Award

Using iconic Resene Pioneer Purple on these sheds transforms an excellent design right into a memorable and pleasing kind that references an historic vernacular.

Studio Home by William Samuels Architects

Studio Home is comprised of two moveable buildings, distinctive for his or her conjoined hooped kind and intelligent use of a decent footprint. At solely 42m², the dwelling space spans the 2 volumes, leading to a surprisingly beneficiant area. Even handed use of supplies is a trademark of the design, from the corrugated cladding to using scaffolding for the outside cover. Detailing is nicely thought of but economical: hoop home windows are crisply detailed and the loft creates a cosy sleeping platform for guests. Studio Home presents a compelling means ahead — an financial and thought of answer to the residential style.

Housing – Alterations and Additions

Head of the Bay by Rural Workshop Architects

This Marlborough Sounds renovation contains a absolutely reclad triple gable kind that opens as much as two new monopitch pods to the north. Present gable tops have been absolutely glazed, drawing mild into the open-plan inside, whereas the brand new sleeping pods present ample room for prolonged household. Though compact, the pods are nicely deliberate and crafted to make sure good use of area.

The positioning of the brand new pods creates a pleasing stepped out of doors dwelling area sheltered from southerly winds. Steps of various heights create informal seating, whereas the timber decking serves to attach all buildings to one another and the foreshore.

Housing – Multi Unit 

Maitahi Quarter Townhouses by Jerram Tocker Barron Architects 

A website with planning and flooding constraints required an architect who might navigate and rework these challenges into alternatives. The result’s a set of enticing and purposeful townhouses overlooking the river, introducing a much-needed typology to a (at present) underpopulated city centre.

The intelligent use of adjustable vertical louvres permits occupants to take pleasure in views whereas avoiding being neglected by shut neighbours. Inner planning and storage have been well-considered to make sure the inside is strong, mild, spacious and well-proportioned.

Excessive-quality medium density properties reminiscent of these will draw folks again into the town, which inspires a extra sustainable way of life.

Public Structure

Motueka Public Library – Te Noninga Kumu by Jerram Tocker Barron Architects

Basically a constructing within the spherical, the Motueka Library responds successfully to its suburban setting. The uncovered laminated timber construction prompts the road edge, whereas the response to the general public area is extra intimate. Punched window openings give glimpses via to the adjoining Japanese gardens and bi-fold doorways result in exterior studying decks.

Toi Māori all through brings visibility to mana whenua and enhances a way of place and group connection. Strong exterior detailing, cladding and roofing mirror the character of the group’s agricultural roots. Photovoltaic panels and pure air flow are used successfully to handle operational efficiencies, and the even handed alternative of supplies has contributed to an uncomplicated inside end.

Training

Karamea Space Faculty by MOAA Architects

The brand new Karamea Space Faculty is a deceptively simple response to position and transient. The old-fashioned has been changed by buildings that body three sides of the varsity’s taking part in fields. The primary block, a 72-metre-long gable, displays the pragmatic nature of native vernacular structure — milking sheds, moss-drying sheds and trendy tramping huts. Inside, places of work, library and studying areas circulation simply from one to the subsequent through the perimeter, the place area can also be offered for storage, bogs and sought-after window seats. Beneficiant verandahs and porches permit for simple all-weather motion round and between buildings. The mono-pitched gymnasium is generously lit and gives a much-appreciated group facility.

Resene Color Award 

Sturdy blocks of color — purple, ochre and gray — emphasise the significance of the Karamea Faculty as a group facility in an remoted city. Inside, clear timber finishes mix with color and different textures to create a vivid, ethereal and calm environment in what is perhaps a difficult open-plan atmosphere. Delicate moss-green carpet and furnishings appear an applicable alternative on this cleared strip between the Kahurangi Nationwide Park and Tasman Sea. 

Business Structure

Cellar One, Cloudy Bay Vineyards by Paul Rolfe Architects

Cellar One represents a celebration of the winemaker’s artwork, with course of being evident as a design driver, giving perception into the nuances of wine manufacturing whereas expressing mechanics and gear geometries. Teamwork between architect, engineer, contractor and winemaker is apparent within the intelligent insertion of the glass viewing pod suspended over the manufacturing corridor in a re-purposed agricultural area. The adjoining tasting galleries are artfully crafted to show the completed product.

Structural interventions are clearly expressed and provides new life and light-weight to an in any other case inflexible concrete shell. Finely crafted timber joinery provides to the refined detailing.

The New Zealand Wine Centre – Te Pokapū Wāina o Aotearoa
by Jerram Tocker Barron Architects

The Wine Centre displays a delicate response to position and the broader atmosphere, whereas offering a focus for numerous disparate parts. Given a posh relationship between current buildings, this new addition seamlessly attracts all of them collectively. The massive verandah not solely makes a robust entrance assertion, because it attracts customers in from the encompassing courtyard, but in addition gives a collaborative public area. Clear pathways are created between current and future buildings.

Inside, a sequence of communal areas have been designed with a robust deal with acoustic efficiency. That is achieved utilizing each ceiling and wall panels, creating an aesthetically pleasing and extremely purposeful inside.

Resene Color Award 

Color has been fastidiously launched to strengthen the meant use of the New Zealand Wine Centre as a collaborative hub. Lush inexperienced carpet and folded plate ceilings lined with regionally grown hardwood hyperlink all of the areas, whereas the super-structure, picked out in black, recedes. Gray and white triangulated acoustic panels occupy a lot of the meeting-room partitions and assist focus consideration inwards to the sharing of concepts. The easy however refined color scheme is echoed in all furnishings, furnishings and cabinetry.

Actual Workspace by Rural Workshop Structure 

The trendy interpretation of the agricultural shed homes a purposeful and nice workspace for a number of companies. The darkish weatherboard exterior is crisply detailed with metal eyebrows surrounding the recurring window/skylight mixture. The inside is mild and ethereal, making a pleasant and alluring office. Utilities are hooked up to the entry aspect in lean-to types, guaranteeing the primary area is clear and open to the pitch all through.

The architect has used Structurally Insulated Panels, European joinery and low-energy mechanical parts to create a well-detailed energy-efficient constructing. Materials alternatives additional emphasise sustainable selections via native sourcing.

Enduring Structure Awards

Pohara Corridor (1971) by Alex Bowman, Architect

This iconic landmark is recognised and cherished by many individuals in Golden Bay and past. With raised eyebrows to the highway between Tarakohe and Pōhara, the group corridor represents an period now handed. Funded by Golden Bay Cement and designed by architect Alex Bowman, the corridor was constructed for group features, dances and theatre occasions. The beneficiant use of concrete speaks of its benefactor’s enterprise pursuits. The precast panels with uncovered mixture, externally expressed columns and open-ended rainwater retailers between the softly curved roofs converse of the architect’s affect.

Alpine Lodge (1984) by Ian Jack, Architect

Firmly embedded in its mountain panorama, Lake Rotoiti’s Alpine Lodge is as related and fashionable right this moment because it was 40 years in the past. The architect’s problem was to reply to the highly effective setting, which was achieved via a fastidiously composed array of steep-pitched roofs, whereas additionally offering a human-scale refuge. Low partitions and steep roofs spring from lush alpine gardens framing the primary entry and public areas. Inside areas are each intimate and uplifting. Dramatic dark-stained roof parts are offset by the heat of rimu lining. Beneficiant home windows begin low, usually with window seats offering heat locations to sit down within the solar, whereas framing views to the beech forest and mountains past.

The NZIA Structure Awards programme is supported by Resene and APL.