Project: BIV Punakaiki Cabin Architects: Fabric Architecture Location: Te Miko, New Zealand Area: 55m2 Year: 2022 Photo credits: Stephen Goodenough Text by Fabric Architecture Set in native forest on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, the aesthetic concept of BIV Punakaiki Cabin was a reinterpretation of a historic gold miners hut. […]
Lockdown Baby House is a compact infill dwelling that proves density can be done sensitively, and that small urban parcels may provide many opportunities to diversify our current housing stock.
The Fielding house is a glazed pavilion siting in the dunescape above a coastal golf links. The two planes of roof and main floor are joined by three timber clad conic forms that house fireplace, bathrooms and kitchen.
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.
The Hinau St House is built predominantly using materials with low carbon footprints, apart from the concrete slab and metal roofing/cladding.
The brief for the Hall project was to retain as much of the notable original features; vaulted timber lined roof, gothic arched doors. The simplicity of the space provided for a sympathetic open plan living area
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.
This project is a new home for a couple and their young daughter. It is set on a very steep site on the Otago Peninsula overlooking Dunedin City, the harbour and hills beyond.
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.
Originally designed by prominent architect Friedrich Eisenhofer in the 1970s, the existing building at 66 Seaview Road offered an incredibly unique and exciting renovation opportunity to create a balanced marriage between 70’s modernism and contemporary architecture.
This townhouse duo was designed for inner city living and epitomises understated luxury and effortless chic urban living. Working within the relatively modest footprint and constraints presented by the rectangular section
