Winners: Waikato and Bay of Lots Structure Awards 2024

The profitable initiatives receiving a Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Native Award from this area of had been introduced at an occasion at The Cargo Shed, Tauranga, on 2 Might.

The 29 winners embody a groundbreaking constructing impressed by the journey of Te Arawa that homes counselling companies, an illuminated fibreglass vacation house, and a tiny house for hobbits.

Jury convenor, architect Matt Grant says that the judges had been impressed by the presence of te ao Māori in initiatives in lots of classes. Hamilton Kirikiriroa Airport, Te Rito O Manaaki Ora, Wai Ariki and Te Kura o Manunui are amongst the profitable initiatives which have been imbued with a deep sense of Māori tradition and design.

“From easy fit-outs to main business work, it’s clear that in our area, iwi session is taken very significantly and Māori-influenced structure is prospering,” says Grant. “These types are extremely modern and the potential for them to tell resilient, reasonably priced development is large.”

The usage of color to rework the expertise of being in a constructing is one other theme present in a handful of this 12 months’s winners. Six initiatives will obtain Resene Color Awards, together with Home on A Hill, a pink corrugated iron house that options soothing inside colors to deliberately imbue a way of calm, and The Pā, a pupil hub and School of Māori and Indigenous Research on the College of Waikato, the place color is used to foster a heat welcome for guests.

“Color is being taken significantly by architects as a way of affecting an atmosphere; from wealthy, brilliant and vibrant colors, to chill, stress-free and calming hues,” says Grant.

Unconventional initiatives make an look too. Summerhill Pavilions ’21 and ’22, a winner within the Small Venture Structure class, pushes the definition of structure to its restrict, with wall-less, latticework timber shelters impressed by historic Japanese and Māori craftsmanship.

The Chodge, a vacation house that’s formed like a woolshed and is constructed from illuminated fibreglass in order to be seen from afar, reinvents the concept of a rural dwelling. And the Hobbit properties nestled by Tilt Structure right into a hillside at Hobbiton, are equally unconventional, and awarded within the Business Structure class for his or her means to move guests to Center Earth.

Convenor architect Matt Grant was joined on the jury by Malcolm Taylor of Malcolm Taylor and Associates, Carl de Leeuw of WSP Structure, Colette McCartney of GHD Design, and lay juror Anna Wilkinson from Space Design, Hamilton.

The profitable initiatives are:

Housing

Whareroa by Bossley Architects

Tucked into the hillside and hiding in plain sight, the dwelling roof seamlessly integrates the home into the atmosphere and supplies a gorgeous elevation from the bush-walking observe behind the positioning. The sunshine stalks create an intriguing show of color at evening and funnel gentle deep down into the plan. The constructing opens as much as the north-west, welcoming the native forest indoors, whereas additionally cocooning bedrooms into the hillside. The home is each sturdy and mild, protecting and open, and emanates serenity — an exquisite place to chill out and revel in a slower tempo of life.

Matua Masterclass by Brendon Gordon Architects

Judiciously positioned inside its suburban cul-de-sac setting, this new dwelling supplies a profitable sequence of dwelling areas for its residents. The gathering of black cedar-clad bins on the avenue give nothing away. On entry, the attention is instantly directed to the harbour vista. The choreographed courtyard cleverly slows the procession to the primary dwelling house, opening right into a beneficiant light-filled west courtyard and dwelling house that stretches throughout the positioning. The lengthy roof kind mimics the expansive Tauranga harbour, partly a results of the restricted constructing top aircraft. Whereas the selection of a sarked timber ceiling lowers the expanse of the dwelling house, it additionally delivers a extra intimate expertise. The eye paid to the cabinetry and lighting references mid-century fashionable properties of west-coast America. The architect is in full management of his craft.

French Cross Home by Christopher Beer Architect

Approaching the French Cross Home is like encountering a few chiseled remnant glacial blocks. The house and separate storage rise from the bottom as if they’ve rested there for a while and develop into embedded. Oriented and designed to seize close to and much views, a transparent space-path-ritual is about up as you arrive, enter and transfer by way of the house. The easy kind belies spatial depth, which accommodates separate rooms and areas the place every occupant has discovered their very own favorite spot. Playful shuttered home windows permit a shaft of sunshine to mark the passing of time, a glimpse into the gap or an alternate entrance for the canine. Low-silled sliding home windows present a direct escape into the sphere for the kid (or youngster at coronary heart). The beneficiant coated terrace mortised into the northern nook extends dwelling outside and can be utilized all year long. Cautious detailing maintains effortlessly clear traces.

The Chodge by DCA Architects of Transformation

The dwelling is a beacon of white bolstered polycarbonate fiberglass on an elevated web site seen from the State Freeway. An interpretation of Nigel Prepare dinner’s work from the Nineteen Eighties and early 90s, it’s paying homage to a woolshed, opening as much as the panorama by way of translucent fire-station doorways and a verandah. Inside the outer shell is an extruded timber dwelling container designed to Passive Haus ideas, cave-like and in stark distinction to the exterior construction. Basically a home inside a home. The inside joinery, furnishing and palette are properly thought-about and modern, with the heat of waxed-oak veneer making a relaxed, subtle aesthetic. The result’s an architectural delight, a triumph of expertise, simplicity and pushing the envelope on planning and constructing guidelines.

Coromandel Home by Evelyn McNamara Structure

Initially conceived as a vacation house for its proprietor, this mission advanced right into a household’s everlasting residence within the sleepy Coromandel township of Onemana. The design pushes the boundaries of web site protection and materiality, a contemporary concrete house impressed by the temper and aesthetic of Tadao Ando. Inside, the house feels fashionable and complicated, heat and welcoming. Inside timber lining creates a welcoming, calming feeling. The courtyard and out of doors house create a tranquil oasis and sense of privateness, regardless of the proximity of neighbours. Gentle shafts, degree modifications and shadow performs create curiosity and privateness whereas sustaining views to the rolling hills and streetscape.

Lake Taupo Home by RTA Studio

The conceptual catalyst for this substitute house was a cluster of boatsheds. Now, a trio of linked gables thoughtfully return the occupation of this web site to a lowered scale that’s sympathetic to the setting. The volumes deftly slide previous one another to interrupt up the mass on arrival, whereas connecting and creating areas inside. The central courtyard permits the encompassing areas to increase into sheltered out of doors areas throughout inclement climate. Sliding screens tune the extent of privateness, permit changes to suite climate circumstances and create intimate semi-outdoor areas with a wide range of views.

Grace by Stevens Lawson Architects

In suburban Mount Maunganui, constrained on all sides, this constructed kind seems easy somewhat than pushed by tight planning restrictions. Cleverly positioned home windows, breezeway brick screens and an inverted dwelling programme present privateness in an in any other case dense setting. The ephemeral and climactic are expressed inside this house by way of the lozenge-shaped roof gentle, hovering over the higher dwelling zone. Mushy gentle delivers a detrimental form of the maunga, which is in direct line of sight on arrival. This home supplies various ranges of enclosure, publicity to the pure parts and — importantly — a robust connection to its beachside location.

Home on a Hill by Stufkens + Chambers Architects

Cautious materials choice playfully engages the senses and invitations tactile exploration in a house that actively engages its occupants. From textural corrugated iron cladding to aromatic Lawson cypress, each floor has been rigorously thought-about for kind and performance. The home responds skillfully to the positioning’s constraints and restrictions, nestling right into a financial institution on one facet and seemingly floating inside established timber on the opposite. Surrounded by greenery, it’s a household sanctuary.

Resene Color Award

A playful and even handed use of color alongside intelligent materials selections comparable to uncooked timber and pink Colorsteel create a welcoming and visually stimulating house.

Stud Farm Residence by Sumich Chaplin Architects

This house adopts an aesthetic impressed by stables on the thoroughbred horse farm. Positioned on a largely flat web site with expansive views throughout the farm and past, the design revolves round a strong axis. Barn types are linked by glazed gallery areas to retain visible connection to the panorama. The inside design contains a rigorously thought-about materials palette of timber, stone, tile and rendered plaster, making a timeless sense of heat and permanency.

Housing – Alterations and Additions

He Iti Ake by Structure Bureau

With a transparent and incisive technique, the architect has cleverly unlocked alternatives to rework an previous vacation house right into a cohesive, well-planned fashionable residence. Improved circulation, skylights and prolonged dwelling areas mix to create a snug and uplifting atmosphere. By discernible discount within the constructed kind, deft planning and unlocking the positioning’s current qualities, the architect has vastly improved the standard of the constructing.

Housing – Multi Unit

Hills Residences by Edwards White Architects

Working with the prevailing constructing construction was a troublesome proposition however the architect and consumer have achieved a landmark outcome for Hamilton East. Transitioning from a laboratory to residential flats with capability for future business areas, this mission exemplifies a considerate method to adaptive reuse. The prevailing construction has been expressed internally, with concrete columns stripped again to disclose the historical past and unique patina. The brand new flats are heat, inviting and mirror a high-quality residential aesthetic with timber cabinetry and stone benchtops. A top quality reuse of a constructing that has revitalised a nook of Hamilton East.

Inside Structure

Hamilton Kirikiriroa Airport by AWA Architects

What began as a furnishings refresh advanced right into a multi-year refurbishment and seismic strengthening mission that will problem the design group to ship a coherent and welcoming place. On the crossing level of transit between earth and sky, arrival and departure, there’s now a transparent cultural id that speaks to web site and context. The design stripped again muddle and a motley assortment of supplies and objects that had gathered like misplaced baggage over time. The result’s clear wayfinding, connection between areas, improved performance, movement and efficiency in a welcoming atmosphere. The cultural narrative established on the outset enabled a transparent story to be manifested in design and detailing. It speaks of the positioning’s former place as a crossing level of pathways and buying and selling routes and was used as a touchstone by the broader design group, different disciplines and artists. The hero is the patterned ceiling, a protecting cloak symbolising intersecting paths and life’s cyclical patterns, which unifies disparate current roofs.

Resene Color Award

A cautious and thought of use of color and color alternatives calm the expertise of the house, assist the narrative behind the design, and assist motion and congregation.

Baker Tilly Staples Rodway Fitout by Chow:Hill Architects

Baker Tilly Staples Rodway occupy the third ground of the six-storey Constructing E growth in Hamilton. A longtime and profitable partnership between consumer and architect has raised the bar of inside design. The purposeful however nonetheless delicate and methodical association of workspaces fosters connectivity amongst workers who had been beforehand siloed. Pure gentle is used to full impact, making a brilliant, inviting and uplifting house. Cool, industrial vertical and horizontal planes are juxtaposed with delicate furnishings and luxurious pockets of pure crops to create an atmosphere that’s pleasant in each sense.

Resene Color Award

By deciding on a excessive degree of supplies and finishes, the architect has created a lush inside that shifts comfortably between totally different tones, textures, shapes and scale. The constructing’s inner core edges are softened by way of the beneficiant use of curves and articulated with partitions lined in vertical white brick. Providers and ceiling construction are expressed, and the inner materials choice is complementary and cohesive. Color surprises and delights all over the place.

Public Structure

Puna Kaukau o Te Oko Horoi – Perry Aquatic Centre by Structure HDT

A big mission for Cambridge, and greater than 15 years within the making, this aquatic advanced seamlessly integrates with the prevailing 50-metre pool and grounds, enveloping the southern fringe of the positioning and providing connectivity by way of expansive home windows in the primary pool corridor. The angular kind, characterised by clear traces and three distinct volumes, mitigates visible bulk on the avenue, and blends harmoniously with the encompassing residential context. Internally, the pool corridor is bathed in pure gentle from west and east-facing floor-to-ceiling glazing with pops of color, reflective of Waipa, to boost the person expertise.

Te Kete Aronui Rototuna Library by Chow:Hill Architects

As a keystone facility to construct this new neighborhood, Te Kete Aronui Rototuna Library supplies many capabilities past conventional library companies, bringing collectively council companies, neighborhood rooms, and a café with examine, maker- and play-spaces each inside and outdoors.
As a neighborhood focus, the library responds properly to the ‘theatre within the spherical’ problem of being accessible and visually linked on all sides. It does this by extending the plan and zoning designs past the exterior partitions to the encompassing landscaped areas and creating alternatives for connection inside and outdoors. The plan will increase utility and permits bigger assembly rooms and services to be out there to the library or remoted for unbiased use by neighborhood teams out of hours.

Hamilton Gardens, Historic Egyptian Backyard by Peddlethorp

The Historic Egyptian Backyard advanced is certainly one of greater than 20 themed gardens at this public vacation spot. This backyard represents one of many earliest ornamental traditions and is a trustworthy copy of a 2000 BC Egyptian home productive setting. Shapes, materials finishes, murals and hieroglyphics have all been reproduced primarily based on historic proof and created in session with an Egyptologist. There’s a persistently excessive degree of design, end and historic accuracy on present — an asset that may delight guests.

Resene Color Award

Basically that is research-led design, which has created a spectacular mission. The colourful murals and hieroglyphics on show had been reproduced from a color palette supplied by way of Egyptological analysis. On virtually each floor, color is used with goal and vigour. The architect has created an impressive expertise that’s as a lot about color as it’s structure.

Small Venture Structure

Summerhill Pavilions ’21 & ’22 by Andrew Barrie Lab

These two constructions mix historic timber methods with modern digital milling expertise and pragmatic agricultural supplies and fittings. The mission’s aim was for light-weight, sustainable constructions that develop the probabilities for timber development, a response to the present local weather emergency. The pavilions use of historic Japanese wedged joint methods and distinctive Māori constructing applied sciences are commendable. Particularly useful is an illustration of post-tensioned heavy timber development of pre-colonial Māori whare.

Whare Mīmīrū by Dr Anthony Hoete and Dr Jeremy Treadwell in affiliation

Whare Mīmīrū provides to the commentary on pre-colonial constructions of Aotearoa. An instance of research-led design, this momentary post-tensioned construction represents community-led structure past the library and laboratory of a traditional college. That is analysis activated on marae, utilising hapū as a builder. The information was co-created and dissipated by way of kōrero, empowering hapū as mātauranga researchers. Whare Mīmīrū affords potentialities to how we would construct resilient post-tensioned timber housing within the future.

The Backyard Room by Edwards White Architects

This stunning addition to the unique Twenties house honours heritage whereas offering a up to date out of doors dwelling house that connects with the encompassing panorama. The skinny-profile pivot-steel joinery provides a sublime windbreak, paying homage to conventional glasshouses and conservatories. The introduction of the skylight to attract gentle deep into the kitchen and eating room is a well-considered resolution that creates a definite separation between previous and new, visually integrating the indoor and out of doors areas and enhancing performance.

Business Structure

Te Rito O Manaaki Ora by DCA Architects of Transformation

Te Rito o Manaaki Ora constructing celebrates cultural id and wellbeing, offering a heat, inclusive and non-clinical facility for its purchasers and group. The undulating façade captures the journey of Te Arawa to Aotearoa and the significance of the Pacific Ocean, whereas additionally serving to to regulate photo voltaic achieve on the western façade. Hahau Matangi, the spectacular poupou, traverses the constructing’s three flooring. This constructing is a celebration of the security of tangata, kōrero and mahi. The tones of the color palette are heat and lots of partitions have tactile surfaces. In all places, a excessive degree of end and materiality is demonstrated.

Resene Color Award

A rigorously thought-about palette and distinctive sample language is superbly built-in into every inside house, making a wealthy cultural narrative and id for all three ranges of the constructing.

Bricks and Mortar by Edwards White Architects

This gently scaled constructing asserts itself amongst its powerful neighbours on a web site beforehand occupied by a mechanic’s workshop. The size of the road elevation, its richly tactile floor and the human exercise of the boardroom supply vitality to a streetscape in any other case devoid of such gestures. Excessive-level south-facing home windows present ample pure gentle to the inside, which incorporates an inner courtyard backyard. It is a rigorously thought-about constructing with a excessive degree of consideration to element. Its means to re-energise a busy avenue and nonetheless supply a meticulously crafted and beneficiant oasis is commendable.

MADE by Edwards White Architects

This glorious new growth in Hamilton East repurposes an previous council constructing right into a vibrant village hub. A curated number of artisan distributors culminates in an thrilling buying expertise and brings collectively a few of Waikato’s most inventive makers and doers. The spiral staircase builds a connection from the road to the river, whereas the open balconies present sweeping views throughout Hamilton’s CBD to Pirongia. This growth is a celebration of town and its inventive expertise.

Wai Ariki by RCG and Pukeroa Oruawhata Lakefront Holdings in affiliation

The transient for the positioning on the marshy and extremely energetic geothermal shores of Lake Rotorua was to create a luxurious spa like no different — architecturally, experientially and culturally. The outcome — Wai Ariki, which means mainly waters — fosters deep reference to the land and its individuals, and is probably the most important spa to be developed in Aotearoa in additional than 100 years. The floorplan is organized round the important thing journeys of bathing and therapeutic, that are primarily based on Ngāti Whakaue tradition. The expertise paths are non-linear, organized extra like a spiral, reflective of te ao Māori view of house and time. The materiality of the constructing and inside learn as a continuation of the panorama. Uncooked volcanic tones envelop inner viewshafts in the direction of the lake, with scoria, obsidian and basalt dressing many surfaces. The sturdy roof kind is meant to be learn in a number of methods — the forehead of Te Arawa waka, a whare gable, and even tectonic plates.

Hobbiton Bagshot Row by Tilt Structure

It is a ‘re-build’ of a movie-set into liveable Hobbit Holes within the hillside that faithfully contour the land and imitate the cinematic expertise. Closely detailed planning has overcome the mission’s technical points and time constraints to ship experiences that transport guests to Center Earth. Labyrinthine inner layouts present Tardis-like qualities and create each a way of growth and the comfortable consolation of a Hobbit’s house.

Ibex Lighting by Wingate Architects

This business constructing — with workplace, warehouse and analysis and growth laboratory – is a superb instance of how an industrial constructing will be practical in addition to elegant and complicated. It’s a refined office with a high-quality aesthetic response, modern joinery options full with hid doorways, and versatile assembly areas. There’s a thought-about eye for element at each juncture. Pure gentle is utilized in abundance and there’s easy accessibility to out of doors areas. Trendy, heat inside supplies and finishes have resulted in a constructing that could be a pleasure to inhabit and a very good showcase of the consumer’s personal lighting merchandise.

Training

The Pā by Architectus, Jasmax and Design Tribe

Considerably dichotomously, The Pā efficiently delivers each a brand new entry level and coronary heart for the College of Waikato, stitching collectively the 4 key capabilities of wharenui, govt management, central pupil hub and School of Māori and Indigenous Research, with clear regard to context and surrounding linkages. Manaakitanga is expressed by way of the mission’s organisation and design, together with growth and extension of conventional Māori development into new manifestations and metaphors such because the crossing, somewhat than termination, of the heke (rafters) on the tāhuhu (ridge beam). This extends and helps the unifying roof that protects the varied actions beneath, fostering gathering and neighborhood. The sturdy narrative, fashioned in shut collaboration with the workplace of the Kīngitanga, reads all through the design and respects the historical past of the whenua, Ngāti Hauā and Ngāti Wairere and their landmarks, anchoring the mission into the Waikato.

Resene Color Award

The colors, each utilized and inherent to the supplies, persistently assist and categorical the design narrative, unify the power’s 4 key capabilities and supply a heat and welcoming expertise.

Te Kura o Manunui by ASC Architects

Te Kura o Manunui shines as an inspiring place of studying for tamariki, the place kaupapa, tikanga, te reo Māori and neighborhood are entwined within the faculty’s imaginative and prescient. Collaboration with mana whenua, Ngāi Tamarāwaho, is clear within the cultural narrative that informs the planning, constructing graphics and landscaping. The refreshingly easy materials choice consists of monochrome black brick veneer accented with a white motif that displays a chicken in flight. All through the mission, references to the positioning context by way of photos of Mauao assist to rejoice place.

Tauranga Boys’ School – New Educating Block by Designgroup Stapleton Elliott

This mission includes a brand new educating block, workers carpark extension and the event of exterior courtyard areas. The mission transforms a beforehand under-utilised space into an integral, multi-functional a part of the campus. The 2-storey constructing aligns with the automobile entry as a continuation of the general public edge and addresses the road boundary with a shrouded roof kind. Lecture rooms will be unbiased or interconnected, offering versatile studying areas that open into shared communal zones to offer a large number of studying environments and academic alternatives. The result’s a singular, particular and significant design that motivates studying in a wide range of settings and has improved outcomes for all its customers.

Enduring Award

Cranwell Place (1970) by Noel D’Arcy Blackburn

It is a well-crafted, heat and welcoming house designed by the architect for his spouse and younger household. The home sits inside an L-shaped floorplan, with the centre going through a courtyard that appears north in the direction of a gully. Inside areas are compartmentalised and expressed by way of totally different ranges, and externally by way of totally different roof types. The home contains a beneficiant kitchen for its time, with broad, full-height sliding doorways, and built-in cupboards, cabinets and bookcases expressing a excessive degree of element and craft. An unique gem properly price celebrating.

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