Architect’s own residence renovation scores a success with NZIA judges

Auckland architect Pete Bossley’s own residence renovation has caught the attention of his friends – the undertaking has been awarded a Housing – Alterations and Additions Award on this 12 months’s NZIA Auckland Structure Awards.

Bossley, who shares the house together with his companion, artist Miriam van Wezel, describes the undertaking as “a narrative of loving iterations designed to accommodate increasing and contracting household and friends”.

He says it is a spot that has been continually creating over 20 years, with out ever having an “end-game” in sight. “It has gone from three bedrooms to 4, again to 3 bedrooms and workspace, and will nicely revert to 4 bedrooms if required.”

The NZIA jury praised the “array of ‘changes’ performed out throughout the unique home over a few years”.

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“In all places are moments of considerate consideration and experimentation, but additionally accumulation, that enables the home to echo deeply the shifting nature of its house owners’ lived collaboration.

The jury mentioned the home was “wealthy in idiosyncratic envelope shifts, cellular components, sudden interconnections, and an affable transforming of entrance, again and facet yards” and provides “an totally compelling imaginative and prescient of place-remaking”.

‘Not about photo-ready tidiness’

Bossley has additionally admitted the home shouldn’t be about “photo-ready tidiness”. “It’s about residing in consolation with architectural delights: the central toilet with a view by means of to the backyard, the way in which early morning shadows look throughout the ply and GRC fireplace encompass, the informally hung artworks, the wavy handrail up the irregular entry steps… …”

Shade performs a robust function, assuring the undertaking additionally obtained a Resene Shade Award, with the Resene judges saying: “Color is a medium that skillfully underscores the advanced spatiality deployed by each the architect and artist occupants of this excellent home alteration.

“Orange, inexperienced, pink, blue – all over the place they splendidly work together to nuance and intensify the each day patterns of life performed out right here.”

Bossley says the brand new extensions are designed as “floating planes of color, clad in fibre-cement sheet with uncovered fixings, to establish new components from earlier iterations”.

“Internally, silver beech plywood and GRC (glass fibre-reinforced concrete) have been used to create streams of identification flowing by means of the prevailing areas.”