Completed 2023

PAC Studio

Photography © Simon Wilson

Completed 2022

KESHAW McARTHUR ARCHITECTS

An extension and renovation to an inner city workers cottage in Auckland, Tamaki Makaurau

Photography © David Straight

Completed 2022

STRACHAN GROUP ARCHITECTS (SGA LTD)

This is a new home for a professional couple moving into retirement. High priority has been given to accessibility and live-ability within the house and to its relationship with the developing gardens.

The clients have a long history with the property, having owned the land and lived and worked on the adjacent site for the past 25+ years. They are avid gardeners and the site had formed part of the extensive gardens they have tended over the last quarter century. The design response respects this heritage and conceptually plays with the tensions of solid and void, arranged beneath a sheltering draped roof.

Integrating principles of sustainability and accessibility, the home aims to allow the clients to mitigate health challenges and maintain their independence and a high quality of life for as long as possible.

Two stained cedar clad building blocks defining public (kitchen, dining, living spaces) & private (bedrooms & service spaces) are linked by a voluminous ‘Garden Room’. Lining treatments emphasise the ambiguity of this indoor-outdoor space and connections to the garden and landscape.

The cedar lined roof plane is “draped” over the whole, unifying the timber blocks, garden room and terrace spaces.

2022 Master Builders Regional Supreme Award

2022 Master Builders Craftsmanship Award

2022 Master Builders Lifestyle Award

2023 NZIA Auckland Housing Award

2023 TIDA Architect Designed Kitchen of the Year

2023 Interiors Awards Residential Finalist (yet to be announced)

Cabinetry by Philbe Design Landscaping by SGLA

Photography © Simon Wilson

Completed 2024

PAC Studio

Photography © Sam Harnett

Completed 2023

Constructive Architecture

Photography © Ross Keane

Completed 2021

The upper storey of a heritage building in Ponsonby, Tamaki Makaurau is transformed in to a sophisticated city retreat by the client and our team.

Photography © Ross Keane

Completed 2020

STRACHAN GROUP ARCHITECTS (SGA LTD)

The name “Zonnebries” (Dutch meaning Sun/Wind) describes the house as a climate moderator and gestures to one of the client’s family heritage.

A long-term home for a young family of five and located in Northcote Point, Auckland. The existing art deco house was demolished and removed due to roof and cladding. Two existing trees, a Golden Elm near the southeastern corner and a mature Puriri on the western boundary, were protected during construction to provide natural anchor points for the new house.

Entering from the street, a cabinetry clad hallway leads you to a generous full-height room clad in birch plywood. An open plan kitchen and living looks east to a morning courtyard and west to a deck that adjoins the pool and spa area. A two-storey bedroom wing provides a master suite on the upper level with flexible options for nursery, office, work/media space and children’s spaces on the lower level connecting again to the rear courtyard and pool area.

The building is, for the most part, cooled and heated passively. Internally, exposed concrete floors provide thermal mass for passive solar control to moderate the internal temperature. Doors & windows are protected with shade structures to suit their orientation and manipulated to provide controllable interior temperatures.

The gabled form and exterior materials have been taken from the ‘California Bungalow’ to help satisfy the Council’s heritage criteria for the zone. Dark stained timber weatherboards and corrugated metal roofing contrast with white-washed timber details and northern screen in accoya.

Built-in furniture by Philbe Design
Landscaping by Landscape and Ecology

Photography © Simon Devitt

Completed 2022

JCA STUDIO in collaboration with MEG FREEMAN

Photography © Ross Keane

Completed 2022

PAC Studio

Photography © Sam Harnett

Completed 2017

MARIA HOSKING

Maria Hosking reimagined a tired and uneventful 60’s cottage into a clever and modern family home. The existing weatherboard building has been opened up to create the new living spaces, straightened and re-lined in vertical grooved plywood and enhanced with western pergola and clean concrete elements.

The 65m2 bedroom extension is clad in painted vertical cedar and features concrete floors, negative detailing, flush cedar joinery and custom walnut veneer sliders with seamless over light glazing. The walnut cabinetry throughout was CNC cut and constructed and installed by our team throughout.

The gallery space, which opens effortlessly onto a courtyard between old and new leads to an in-situ concrete and stone firepit area. The craftsmanship and detail have contributed to the space, comfort and performance of a small home that achieves a lot.

Featured in Homestyle Magazine Summer 2020, read the online article by Claire McCall here.

Photography © Kate Van der Drift and Simon Wilson

Completed 2020

PINFOLD ARCHITECTS in association with SOPHIE WYLIE, ARTIFACT

This secondary dwelling is nestled into the existing garden of these repeat clients grand villa on the clifftop of Northcote Point. A double garage, come home office, come guest house beautifully designed by Sophie Wylie and executed by Pinfold Architects.

The recessive black cedar exterior is clad in stained horizontal cedar and paired with painted black cedar joinery and dark corrugate roofing, in keeping with the heritage zone. The lofty gabled spaces achieve a lot within a small footprint, exquisitely paired with extensive built-in cabinetry and clean modern detailing.

The entry is enhanced with a cantilevered pergola, the hidden custom brackets threaded together with a stainless steel rod.

Completed 2018

STRACHAN GROUP ARCHITECTS (SGA LTD)

This existing bungalow in Kingsland has been gutted and reconfigured to create modern and light-filled living spaces that connect to a modern extension, part secondary living, part exterior storage, for this father and his two daughters. The site, situated within a valley and natural overland flow path presented poor ground conditions and extensive foundation work was required.

Cleverly designed by SGA Architects the extension is clad in vertical aluminium Nu-Wall and features concrete floors and birch plywood lining in rich contrast to the existing weatherboard dwelling with reinstated native timber floors. The entry is slipped between the old and new forms and united by a membrane roof above.

Extensive birch cabinetry and yellow cedar joinery throughout marries the old and new, with large interior glazed sliders providing the option to connect or isolate the new volume. Within the extension, the cabinetry wall in birch is part bookshelf, part display and part ladder to access the loft for the girls to snuggle up with a book, do homework or host slumber parties.

The project features new over-wall timber sliders to create a large opening from the kitchen & dining and within the extension aluminium sliders open to reveal a cantilevered corner that connect to the new deck and spa.

Photography © Ross Keane

Completed 2017

STRACHAN GROUP ARCHITECTS (SGA LTD)

In Collaboration with: Architecture + Women NZ & Crate Innovation Ltd

NZIA Local Award Winner - 2018 - Small Project
Best Awards 2018 - Silver Award - Public and Institutional Spaces
Timber Design Awards - Finalist - Excellence in Engineered Wood Products

Motu Kaikoura is a protected scenic reserve that lies northwest of Great Barrier Island off the coast of Auckland. The location of the site introduced issues around bio-security, remote access, and material supply delivery.

Innovative construction was explored to offer both economic and environmental advantage. Prefabrication was used for higher efficiency and productivity, improved quality control, lessened material waste and improved safety. Particularly, prefab addressed the key issue of project delivery to the remote island. Being constructed in-factory reduced the requirement for specialist trades on-site.

Due to a major shortfall in funding, SGA conceived a creative solution to get the project off the ground. A partnership was formed with Architecture+Women NZ to deliver the building contract as an educational programme in which 16 architects and graduates would gain invaluable hands-on experience. Due to this unique collaboration, the project was also supported by many industry partners who generously donated/discounted building supplies.

The construction system was devised with transport limitations of land, sea and sky in mind, as well as buildability for the apprentice team and the Trust’s environmental policy. The panel building components were constructed in the SGA Workshops in Kingsland and then flat-packed and heli-lifted onto the foundations from a barge in the passage below. The method of construction and story of assembly are proudly expressed in the detailing and finishing.

Prefab Type: Panel

Prefab Materials Used:
Floor and Wall Cartridge Frames, Thermospan Structurally Insulated Panels (SIPs) Roof Panels + Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) by Carter Holt Harvey WoodProducts (PrefabNZ Member) Timber Panelised Structure assembled using LVL to form Roof and Floor Cartridges, Corrugate Cladding

NZIA Awards Jury Citation: This project represents a generous investment in supporting community engagement and training women architects in construction processes in partnership with Architecture and Women NZ. The building required the development of a clever modular system to enable it to be prefabricated, delivered to the remote island site – via helicopters and barges – and finally constructed. The resulting building is a clear and simple gathering place for a deserving community.

Learn more about the project on Architecture Now and Architecture Women

231 ARCHITECTURE

A total rehaul of a dilapidated minors’ cottage within a protected heritage zone and major overland flow path made for a challenging and extremely rewarding project. Working with the passionate and design-driven clients we re-piled, straightened and re-lined the existing building to include three bedrooms, two bathrooms and then extended the lofty open plan living extension which was subject to major engineering due to the poor geotechnical conditions below.

The voluminous living extension achieves the expansive open plan via exposed steel portals, paired with negative detail and brick veneer. The form is fully glazed in cedar joinery to the east, opening onto the extensive deck and private landscaped area. The interior is punctuated with skylights and high windows to maintain natural light and privacy within the urban setting.

The home functions as well for family life as it does for a party of 50, a testament to the repeat client’s vision and perseverance on a difficult site with limited access.

Photography © Ross Keane

Completed 2018

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The original home of Sunbeam Glass Studio, a collection of local artists and creatives, Ponsonby's Glassworks is a celebration of rich artistic history. A tribute to the many creatives who have worked in the space our repeat clients envisioned a space available for public and private hire for events and exhibitions in the heart of Ponsonby.

Dilapidated and run down the space was cleared and reconfigured in to the bright and inviting space it is today. An additional courtyard, designed by Jared Lockhart, brings shape and versatility to the precinct. The extensive use of brick and hand-cast concrete seating is a nod to the site and its rich creative history.

Renowned glass artist Garry Nash worked from the studio for three decades, producing his pieces in the four large kilns originally on the property. Tributes to his work and those of the many creatives who have worked in the space can be seen through a series of exhibits that are often held in the space. The archive of images below shows the space in its original state prior to renovations in 2018. The newly developed courtyard, designed by Jared Lockhart, brings shape and versatility to the precinct.

PONTING FITZGERALD ARCHITECTS

Completed 2018

This new home for actor Oliver Driver, his wife Ella and their two children was designed by the talented team at Ponting Fitzgerald Architects and was documented and published My New Home, in social media and in several national magazine publications.

The waterfront site in Te Atatu Peninsular had unique challenges due to the boggy ground conditions and very high water table, requiring 3.6m piles. The slick black form is clad in prefinished corrugate iron, a low maintenance selection and the structure was future-proofed for a second story master suite.

Photography care of Bauer Media

Completed 2018

JESSICA WHITE

The existing townhouse is one of six three-storey terraced dwellings in Herne Bay. The 80’s interior was outdated and pokey, a faint memory of the now modern and stylish three-bedroom, three-bathroom home designed by Jessica White.

With all exterior window and door joinery replaced, walls were removed and relined, modernized with clean and fresh detailing. Features such as grooved plywood walls, extensive built-in cabinetry, tiled reveals and a new stair balustrade with brass detail bring something extra special to this urban retreat.

Photography © Ross Keane

Completed 2019

MARIA HOSKING

A tired and pokey three storey 1960’s terraced house in Grey Lynn has been modernised to create simpler and cleaner transitions and devised to create a greater sense of space for this creative couple. The design by Maria Hosking was within a strict budget and included new exterior joinery to the northern concrete and stone courtyard and from the midfloor Juliet balcony to enhance the light, air movement and connection to nature.

New Oak flooring and tonal sisal carpet on the upper and mid floors are a subtle counterpart to the pink painted concrete on the lower floor. The rich American walnut kitchen and built-in cabinetry has been paired with grey slate in the kitchen and bathroom, the natural textures and materials a fitting backdrop to the couples stunning art collection.

Photography © Ross Keane

Completed 2017

JOSE GUTIERREZ ARCHITECTURE

A two-bedroom apartment in an iconic 70’s block in Herne Bay has been reconfigured by Jose Gutierrez Architecture into a fresh and modern two-bedroom pad for this client who is often working overseas or travelling.

Working within the building of 10 other households required abundant communication with the other inhabitant’s body corporate. Noise and dust had to be strictly controlled and minimized. New aluminium joinery was installed to better connect the refurbished balcony featuring Atlantic Stone and frameless glass to the stunning view. Oak floors, extensive built-in cabinetry, stone bathrooms and all new electrical and light fittings are just some of the updates that make this a special and low maintenance property on the water.

Photography © Ross Keane

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