Ten initiatives recieved Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects for the Western area on 24 Might at an occasion on the Refectory, Massey College in Palmerston North.
A handful of public initiatives are included within the winners. They embody Ko Tamawāhine, Ngā Awa Block, Westmere Presbyterian Memorial Church and Te Whare Hononga. Most are examples of bicultural collaboration between architects and iwi which have resulted in buildings designed for communities.
“Many initiatives had been confronted with restrictive budgets, however the outcomes are wonderful, with culturally enriching structure that conjures up neighborhood spirit and in some instances, supplies a lifeline to communities,” says jury convenor, Monika Puri of 242am Architects.
The brand new addition to Whanganui’s Westmere Presbyterian Memorial Church by Dalman Architects is a good instance of the collective effort required for these initiatives: members of the congregation felled timber to supply timber and gathered previous bricks to repurpose to be used within the new construction.
In Levin, Mabel Central housing by Wright & Grey Architects received within the Housing — Multi Unit class. The non-public growth of 43 terraced homes is without delay easy and groundbreaking.
“The architect was impressed by concepts from different districts’ plans to introduce multi-unit housing in Levin,” says Puri. “They managed the whole chain of building within the constructing section in order that the availability chain was native. On this method, and in different profitable initiatives, the position of the architect went additional than the normal position. They’ve challenged and expanded it.”
Three dwellings received within the Housing class, together with Gonville Pool Home, a change of a public pool complicated right into a household residence. The adaptive reuse of the disused neighborhood pool in Whanganui has reimagined the constructing as a contemporary open-plan residence, and the swimming pools as sunken gardens.
A jury of three judges Nick Strachan of Athfield Architects, Heather Hocken of WSP and lay juror Tyson Schmidt, assessed this 12 months’s Western initiatives with Puri.
The profitable initiatives are:
Housing
Baring Terrace Home by Boon
Brandon Lister
This refined household residence maximises a tough inner-city hillside website adjoining to Te Henui Awa. The three-level house is expertly deliberate to handle the northwest mild, views to the awa and intelligent connections between inside and exterior dwelling areas. The modern exterior kinds are properly modulated at every degree to scale back the size of the event, obtain privateness between areas and join with the awa (river) edge.
Resene Color Award
This well-crafted exterior contrasts with the wealthy color and texture of the inside, which is a pleasure to expertise at every degree as you journey by means of the areas.
Cracroft Home by Dalgleish Architects
Abbey Hocquard
A deep understanding and respect for the positioning and shoppers’ wants has resulted in a well-planned practical residence that gives flexibility and pleasure for the homeowners, their household and buddies. Two strong industrial pavilion kinds — private and non-private — bookend the central hub that may be opened to handle Te Awa Tupua or guard towards the westerly wind. The well-crafted transition within the public kind between the entry, dwelling and versatile ‘storage’ achieves neo- plastic spatial traits that meet the calls for of household life. The well-detailed lighthouse window attracts northern mild inside, cleverly celebrates the shoppers’ religion and gives a degree of distinction within the suburban growth.
Gonville Pool Home by Patchwork Structure
Simon Wilson
An experimental website for a brand new household residence. Whereas modest in scale, this well-crafted residence exudes a heat of color and inner supplies and an class of geometric structural detailing. Wrapped and guarded inside an enclosed courtyard, the unique pool gate home and entry conceal the suburban oasis of inexperienced inside. Working exhausting to the positioning’s edges, this household residence retains remnants of its aquatic previous, which carry a smile to at least one’s face. This can be a celebration of the imaginative and prescient of each shopper and architect, and the way leisure areas deserted by some may be skillfully tailored and re-imagined by others.
Housing – Multi Unit
Mabel Central housing, Levin by Wright & Grey Architects
André Vroon
A profitable medium-density growth that creates livable, reasonably priced housing. This comparatively new typology for Horowhenua reveals that it’s doable to extend density with out compromising high quality when assembly escalating housing calls for. The developer and contractor leveraged their experience in concrete-panel building and utilized supplies and refined shifts in kind to create curiosity.
Public Structure
Pip Guntherie
Ko Tamawāhine by Boon
The design units a brand new customary for contemporary wharekai, assembly the load of historical past and lofty aspirations of the longer term, fulfilling its personal position with type and with out dominating the encircling whare. Neatly incorporating supplies and options from the unique wharekai, the brand new rotating fins and façade lighting add a component of wow issue for approaching manuhiri. Inside, timber portals and plywood wall-and-ceiling linings present a way of heat. Ringawera and kaimahi should not forgotten — a extremely resolved structure ensures performance and the south façade therapy respects their mahi. A very thoughtful design course of means Ko Tamawāhine can host for generations to come back, serving to proceed Te Whiti’s instruction — E tū tama wahine i te wā o te kore.
Ngā Awa Block by Copeland Associates Architects
Copeland Associates Architects
Elegantly poised on a number of edges of paddock, area and tennis courts, this rigorously composed constructing supplies shelter and different vantage factors to the adjoining sporting actions.
A beneficiant verandah wraps the constructing edge, offering shelter, circulation and fleeting interplay between groups, regardless of the end result of the match. Sturdy exterior detailing sits comfortably with the joyous riot of structural color of colonnade posts and beams. The children can throw a ball round with out restrict. A thought-about understanding of the constructing’s efficiency and vitality use, in addition to strong inside finishes and the perfect referees viewing platform within the land, contribute to a constructing that may make this neighborhood proud.
Resene Color Award
The punch of color is carried by means of from exterior to inside, referencing the encircling native flora and historical past, serving to to floor and ensure the constructing as a neighborhood asset.
Westmere Presbyterian Memorial Church: New Entry Constructing by Dalman Architects
Richard Dalman & members of the church
Non sibi sed aliis — not for self however for others. This mission speaks straight of the neighborhood that drove it and the Presbyterian religion it fosters. The mission achieves its temporary with out pomp and ceremony. It additionally veils the complexities that wanted to be overcome — the best way to discover hundreds of outdated dimensioned bricks (you crowdsource, after all), or to avoid wasting on the timber wanted (you get your congregation to fell and mill their timber), or resolve how the church works for the addition (you simply flip the inside structure round). This has not been a fast course of — shifting and lifting of help buildings was finished years forward, serving to guarantee the brand new addition is connective and doesn’t dominate the church. Each step has been deliberate with the longer term end result in thoughts.
Te Whare Hononga by Tennent Brown Architects
Andy Spain
Bravely advancing the architectural dialogue of reconciliation and cultural connection, it is a first step in recognising and therapeutic a tough previous. The outside is a distinction to the colonial-era church, referencing weaving patterns and straight addressing motorists on their each day commute alongside the primary highway. Inside, the construction is the hero, talking on to a tenuous and tentative grasp that it manages to carry. Stylistically and technically profitable, the true success of this mission’s intention will solely be identified with years of hui, wānanga and kōrero. However for now, maybe it succeeds just by beginning the dialogue.
Small Venture Structure
Te Upoko o Te Whenua Marae Cover by Boon
Daniel McEwan
An instance of small-project structure with a huge impact. Ngāti Maru’s solely marae heightened the necessity to obtain lots with just a little. The primary steps of a bigger marae growth, this addition reaches out and stands proudly to greet the numerous manuhiri and tangata whenua that journey to Tarata. A delicate intervention with a contact of innovation that respectfully replicates the central placement of the unique pou, deepening the mahau with out darkening the kūwaha, and making certain those who relaxation beneath its shelter are nonetheless in a position to join with the encircling panorama.
He Awa Ora by Dalgleish Architects
Catherine Macdonald
Designed to journey, this work will regularly evolve and alter, similar to the awa it represents. And what a wealthy story it has to inform and with so many taonga to show. To respect what wanted to be achieved inside a really tight area and price range, each resolution made was an vital one.
The constrained exhibition area has been remodeled to efficiently inform the story of Te Awa Tupua, the Whanganui River, and its individuals. The design begins with dynamic graphic exterior signage and seamlessly continues by means of to the flooring remedies within the museum atea and a pathway underneath the tomokanga. The situation of taonga inside the area has been rigorously thought-about and curated in session with hapū and iwi. Intelligent use of color helps the viewer navigate their method by means of the exhibition, from the mountain to the sea.
The NZIA Structure Awards programme is supported by Resene and APL.
