Point Chevalier House / Studio TT
The family now have a beautiful home with 4 bedrooms, a study where mum works from home, 2.5 bathrooms, double garage that functions as an enormous playroom during the day
The family now have a beautiful home with 4 bedrooms, a study where mum works from home, 2.5 bathrooms, double garage that functions as an enormous playroom during the day
On a prominent hilltop site in an exposed location, the design uses a simple lean-to form to establish protection from the prevailing winds while maintaining a low-profile, importantly minimising the visual impact on it’s outstanding natural setting.
The Waiheke Residence was intended to support a version of life that rejected the digitalised and left the hum of the city behind. It needed to deliver a slower rhythm and tune in with the environment.
As a building, The Hotel Britomart is a 10-storey object crafted from hand-made clay bricks, its rough surface punctuated by a constellation of sleekly glazed windows, its mass appearing to hover weightlessly over an urban tapestry of cobbled lanes and dockside warehouses.
Adaptability and a sense of privacy and retreat were essential requirements in the design of Lin House, a 330m² home on a tight suburban site within a neighbourhood of ’60s houses.
DMA were approached by the clients after seeing another of our houses. Their site was a 600m2 recently subdivided site, with a rather unusual road frontage in that it was tucked below Upland Road and serviced by a feeder alley way.
Continuing the tradition of refurbishment of Auckland’s heritage housing stock, this project is a re-interpretation of the ‘lean-to’ form.
The design brief called for a relatively efficient 3 bedroom home to accommodate family life and flexible occupation of the adult children in rural south-eastern Auckland.