Winners announced: 2022 Nelson/Marlborough Architecture Awards

The architectural practices behind a considerate bach restoration, a sequence of space-enhancing school rooms, an modern workplace block and a cabin deep within the bush have all scooped awards at a celebration of Nelson & Marlborough’s finest structure, held at Brancott Property Heritage Centre on Friday twenty ninth July in Blenheim.

A complete of 12 tasks acquired a prestigious Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Structure Award throughout seven award classes, three of which additionally acquired a Resene Color Award.

Nelson & Marlborough Jury Convenor Jarrod Midgley of Rural Workshop Structure stated there have been some clear standouts among the many entries that blended into the scenic environment of the Nelson and Marlborough districts.

“All the jury members have been deeply impressed by the calibre of entries this 12 months. Nelson and Marlborough are each scenic and tranquil areas of New Zealand, and the successful entries have been humble and respectful buildings that highlighted the realm’s pure magnificence” – Jarrod Midgely

The five-person jury visited 15 shortlisted tasks earlier than deciding on the 12 winners. 

See above for photographs of the shortlisted tasks, which are:

Housing

The Cliffs Home by Modo Architects

Set on a dramatic cliff prime web site in Nelson, the home takes in uninterrupted views throughout Tasman Bay/Te Tai-o-Aorere. On getting into, the dwelling area opens and appears to venture out over the ocean and rocks under. A bend in axis varies the view focus, with the dwelling area and deck arrowing towards Tāhunanui Seaside. The mixture of aesthetic and technical efficiency could be very nicely balanced. Solar and sea glare are cleverly conditioned by exterior sliding screens and overhangs, whereas the rear deck and backyard supply a sheltered distinction to prevailing winds and open sea views. Nice care and pleasure has been taken by the contractor in delivering a home of excellent craftsmanship.

Pūponga Bach by Athfield Architects 

This home on a distant nook of Golden Bay is an instance of structure that’s ‘of its web site’. Anchored to a historic railway embankment, easy types and rustic cladding recollect earlier coal mining buildings. The bach’s elevated linear type stretches away into the tree cover and a tenting deck beneath. A sequence of open areas alongside the escarpment ‘ridge’ extends by way of the centre of the home, shaping the arrival expertise and connecting the higher stage with a variety of dwelling areas, in and out. The home appears like a mechanism to strategy, inhabit and admire the land wherein it sits.

Resene Color Award 

The color and supplies of this venture are designed to be recessive. The deviation is the purple oxide employed for the structural members, that reference buildings of the previous, and the earth round us. That is mining land, wealthy in minerals. Excellent selection. 

Housing – Alterations and Additions

Wakefield Quay Condominium by Arthouse Architects 

This venture is a refined instance of structure that’s made by taking the atypical and making it extraordinary. The architects have moulded a fastidiously detailed, wholistic atmosphere into the prevailing shell. The eye to element is so full that it’s nearly transcendent. It appears like they have been aiming for perfection — at all times a dangerous strategy, however on this case, it was a danger price taking. The result’s aesthetically very stunning, however the expertise is a pervading sense of calm. This stage of craft solely happens with aroha, dedication, and respect. It’s a testomony to all concerned.

Resene Color Award 

The restrained and refined use of color constant all through, highlights the house owners’ art work and pure supplies, together with metal granite and timber. A lot care and consideration has been taken with color, and in addition the feel of each floor, to create an atmosphere that’s welcoming, calming and pervades a way of unassuming high-quality permanence.

Religion & Doubt by Crosson Architects 

With Religion & Doubt, the architect has respectfully and sensitively restored a dilapidated church, whereas radically difficult the norms of home dwelling. The result’s a race-ready machine for habitation that’s been pared again to the bones. Right here, the necessity for cabinet doorways, wardrobes, drawers and even bedrooms is challenged. Cell sleeping pods imply the house’s teenage occupants should at all times use shared dwelling areas — utilising structure to encourage communication and engagement of the household unit. Moments of enjoyable abound, the household’s persona shines by way of, making Religion & Doubt a house wherein to stay ‘a life much less atypical.’  

Spring Creek Revisited by Modo Architects 

Time may be unkind to architect-designed properties if adjustments of possession and subsequent alterations in differing types undermine the unique intent. Right here, fortuitously, a a lot beloved 12-year-old home stays with its first house owners and has now been enhanced by the unique architect. Saved low and seamlessly in tune, an outside room extension transparently transitions between the home and adjoining Spring Creek, linking conditioned outside dwelling with each, and enhancing web site connection. Wind, solar, and rain are managed by sliding glass screens and variable overhead louvres, making this an area to get pleasure from in all seasons.   

Public Structure

Marlborough District Council – Public Bathroom Upgrades by Arthouse Architects 

Public bathroom services current a fancy temporary with a really small footprint. Taking into account components of security, pure gentle, ease of use, sustainability, wayfinding and neighborhood, the architects have upgraded three separate services in a means that’s constant, but distinctive of their particular person response to every web site’s context and historical past. The flexibility to rework prosaic public services into one thing that permits the area round it to be beloved and loved by a neighborhood, is sort of an achievement. The recent flowers signalled to us that the bathrooms are cared for with pleasure. As architects, what extra may we ask for? 

Small Undertaking Structure

Honeymoon Bay Bach by Jerram Tocker Barron Architects

This deeply shaded pocket handkerchief of a web site, backed by a cliff and topic to native resident committee approval, required a courageous design strategy. By cleverly stretching the envelope vertically, the architect has assigned the whole floor footprint to dwelling and decking and squeezed two bedrooms and ablutions above. A cleverly cropped-back essential bed room flooring permits the solar to flood into the lounge beneath, making this intimate, easy and well-resolved bach really feel surprisingly spacious.  

The Cabin by Johnstone Callaghan Architects

Tucked into the bush overlooking a small inlet inside Abel Tasman Nationwide Park, this sturdy, low-maintenance little gem gives a shock at each flip. Designed as an adjunct to the close by household bach, each side of The Cabin celebrates the essence of retreat into nature — from an outside bathe nestled within the timber and nest-like sleeping area, to the shuttered deck and treetop viewing platform that maintains a relentless reference to the bush past. Designed and assembled with love and nice care, one can’t assist however get pleasure from this earthy, sincere, uplifting, and non secular constructing.

Business Structure

WallÉ by Irving Smith Architects

Located on a slim web site in central Nelson, the constructing is bordered by low-level industrial developments. In a design masterstroke, worthwhile flooring area on the mid and higher stage is sacrificed to open the studio workplace to a steady recessed north-facing veranda, supplemented by a beneficiant terrace on the rear. Naturally ventilated, flooded with daylight and imbued with the heat of uncovered mass timber development, a piece atmosphere turns into a follow house stuffed with pure gentle. 

Fairfield Workplace Low Power Licensed by KLT Architects 

The architect has created an unpretentious workplace for Fairfield Building Ltd. The consumer temporary was not simply the gold normal of thermal effectivity, however a holistic strategy to all points of sustainability in constructing. It’s vitality environment friendly, economical to run, nicely ventilated, and retains customers heat in winter and funky in summer season. The venture has sustainability as its core design motive, from the minimisation of development waste to the reuse of recycled supplies, and clearly homes Fairfield’s personal environmental ethos. The result’s an workplace area that isn’t solely visually interesting however an incredible ambiance to work in. 

Schooling

Waimea School New Educating Blocks by Arthouse Architects and Sheppard & Rout Architects 

Positioned within the nook of a widespread campus, the instructing blocks are stage 1 and a pair of of a masterplan that reorganises the varsity from what was simply buildings inside a parking lot to a social place for studying. A brand new courtyard is neglected by a beneficiant three-metre veranda that runs the size of each blocks. Engineered timber has been adopted because the sustainable various to concrete and metal, regimenting the verandas and bringing heat and curiosity to naturally lit and ventilated instructing areas. This venture is a transparent reminder of how architects add worth when working as a part of a unified and supportive staff. A extra sustainable, primary, really pretty, heat, acoustically inviting lecture room, multiplied. A repeatable type that we hope will change into the brand new normal for college buildings.  

Resene Color Award 

Refined references to the prevailing color and supplies palette of the varsity, included in a crisp and new means, convey cohesion to this nook of the campus. Inside, the heat of structural timber is complimented with colored tactile surfaces and different pure wooden merchandise. 

Enduring Structure

Blenheim Home (1989) by Peter Beaven – Architect 

Sitting proudly and timelessly within the Marlborough panorama, Blenheim Home stays true to its authentic intent in each design and materiality. Referencing its dramatic and contrasting surrounds — the dry, slim plain wherein it sits, the extraordinary inexperienced of the bush-covered hills to its north, and the pale-coloured hills to the south — means the visible impact of this house stays as hanging right now because it did when first constructed. Concurrently large and intimate in scale, Blenheim Home has a castle-like feeling of permanence. Inside, great and sudden inside areas — together with a small eating room that sits inside a nine-metre tower of corrugated iron convey pleasure to those that expertise them.

The NZIA Native Awards 2022 programme is supported by Resene and APL.