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WELLINGTON
AOTEA HOUSE,
PORIRUA
2020
Project Team
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Architecture:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Hamish Wakefield
Engineer:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Essen EngineeringÂ
Contractor:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Progressive Homes
Landscaping:Â Â Â Â Â Â Capital Paving
Interiors:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Danielle Leslie
                  Kerry Woodham
Photographer:Â Â Â Â Â Showhome Photography
Project Description
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Located at the very top of the Aotea sub-division on an impossibly challenging shaped flat site, this home has been designed to nestle into it's urban surroundings.
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Commissioned as a new family home for a young couple and their two young children the house is loosely based on familar gable forms with a central link and deliberately clad in a mix of heavy and light materials.
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The residence is defined by multiple intersecting forms to create a series of integrated spaces and terraces that accentuate various indoor-outdoor relationships. The covered courtyard provides refuge from the coastal and storm winds whilst establishing private settings for the adjacent living areas.
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The clients had seen a recently completed commission in The Banks development and wanted to borrow from that aesthetic with the materiality and flow considered critical to a successful home.Â
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Retaining walls, integrated with the contours of the site, are split faced concrete blocks.