Auckland architect Pete Bossley’s personal residence renovation has caught the eye of his peers – the challenge has been awarded a Housing – Alterations and Additions Award in this year’s NZIA Auckland Architecture Awards.
Bossley, who shares the home with his husband or wife, artist Miriam van Wezel, describes the venture as “a story of loving iterations built to accommodate expanding and contracting relatives and guests”.
He suggests it is a put that has been constantly producing about 20 a long time, devoid of at any time possessing an “end-game” in sight. “It has long gone from three bedrooms to 4, back again to 3 bedrooms and workspace, and could very well revert to four bedrooms if necessary.”
The NZIA jury praised the “array of ‘adjustments’ performed out across the authentic residence in excess of numerous years”.
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“Everywhere are times of considerate thought and experimentation, but also accumulation, that enable the dwelling to echo deeply the shifting character of its owners’ lived collaboration.
The jury explained the household was “rich in idiosyncratic envelope shifts, cell components, unexpected interconnections, and an affable transforming of front, again and side yards” and gives ”an completely compelling eyesight of put-remaking”.
‘Not about image-all set tidiness’
Bossley has also admitted the property is not about “photo-prepared tidiness”. “It is about living in consolation with architectural delights: the central toilet with a check out through to the yard, the way early morning shadows look across the ply and GRC fire surround, the informally hung artworks, the wavy handrail up the irregular entry steps……”
Color performs a strong job, assuring the job also been given a Resene Colour Award, with the Resene judges indicating: “Colour is a medium that skilfully underscores the sophisticated spatiality deployed by equally the architect and artist occupants of this fantastic household alteration.
“Orange, green, pink, blue – everywhere they splendidly interact to nuance and intensify the every day designs of life played out right here.”
Bossley says the new extensions are made as “floating planes of colour, clad in fibre-cement sheet with uncovered fixings, to establish new things from before iterations”.
“Internally, silver beech plywood and GRC (glass fibre-strengthened concrete) have been employed to create streams of identity flowing by the present spaces.”