Winners: Nelson and Marlborough Architecture Awards 2023

Eleven structure initiatives throughout seven classes, have been named Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Structure Native Awards winners at an occasion on Friday 26 Could at The Suter Artwork Gallery in Nelson.

Rural Workshop Structure gained three awards throughout three classes. Their Actual Workspace, an workplace area that integrates wellness structure practices, gained within the Industrial Structure class; Awatere Hilltop Home, a fantastically remoted house that mirrors the encompassing hills, gained within the Housing class; and Head of the Bay home gained within the Housing — Alterations and Additions class, for a understated rework of a bunk room and bach within the Marlborough Sounds.

Jerram Tocker Barron Architects took away three awards. New Zealand Wine Centre — Te Pokapū Wāina o Aotearoa, a analysis and schooling centre for grape and wine analysis on the native Institute of Expertise, gained within the Training class, whereas Maitahi Quarter Townhouses, a multi-unit venture that overlooks Nelson’s Maitai River, gained the Housing — Multi Unit class. And Motueka Public Library — Te Noninga Kumu, impressed by the standard types of rural farm buildings, gained within the Public Structure class.

Karamea Space Faculty, designed by MOAA Architects, was deemed the winner of the Training class. The brand new faculty is a utilitarian and delightful group hub for the small city of Karamea (inhabitants roughly 400), and a college for Years 1-13.

William Samuels Architects’ Studio Home, a singular 42m² house with a really tight development funds, confirmed a residence will be inexpensive and architecturally vital, by successful an award within the Housing class.

Cellar One, created for Cloudy Bay Vineyards by Paul Rolfe Architects and a phenomenal winemaking facility and eating space, gained the Industrial Structure class.

Lastly, two buildings obtained Enduring Structure awards: Alpine Lodge, St Arnaud (1984) by architect Ian Jack, a lodge made up of residences, rooms, a restaurant and a playground; and Pohara Corridor in Golden Bay (1971), a Nineteen Seventies’ gem by the late modernist architect Alex Bowman.

A jury of 4 judges — Siân Taylor of Crew Inexperienced Architects, Jonathan Fraser of Studio Pacific, and architect Sarah Pickens — assessed this yr’s initiatives, and the jury was convened by architect Min Corridor.

“The entire initiatives we visited responded to the comparatively rural nature of the area and we tended to see buildings that mirrored that attribute fairly strongly, even within the residential classes. The architects have taken the agricultural vernacular as a information, utilizing easy pragmatic varieties,” says Min Corridor.

“There was additionally an encouraging consciousness of environmental and sustainable points general, and we have been happy to see far more openness to acknowledging te ao Māori within the public initiatives.”

The successful initiatives are:

Housing

Awatere Hilltop Home by Rural Workshop Structure

A easy but robust idea of two purple sheds on the sting of a hilltop maximises the expansive sea-to-mountains views to the south, whereas containing a small, sheltered courtyard to the north. Intelligent inner planning optimises a good footprint to make sure the home feels each welcoming and roomy. The overhanging corrugate roof/wall intersection removes the requirement for gutters, permitting rainwater to drip right into a hid drain and disperse naturally.

The architect has rigorously thought of type, development and companies to make sure this home is heat and makes use of minimal power. This can be a intelligent and enticing design utilizing compact varieties to reply strongly to consumer, web site and setting.

Resene Color Award

The usage of iconic Resene Pioneer Purple on these sheds transforms a great design right into a memorable and pleasing type that references an historic vernacular.

Studio Home by William Samuels Architects

Studio Home is comprised of two moveable buildings, distinctive for his or her conjoined hooped type and intelligent use of a good footprint. At solely 42m², the residing space spans the 2 volumes, leading to a surprisingly beneficiant area. Even handed use of supplies is a trademark of the design, from the corrugated cladding to the usage of scaffolding for the outside cover. Detailing is properly thought of but economical: hoop home windows are crisply detailed and the loft creates a comfortable sleeping platform for guests. Studio Home presents a compelling manner ahead — an financial and thought of resolution to the residential style.

Housing – Alterations and Additions

Head of the Bay by Rural Workshop Architects

This Marlborough Sounds renovation includes a absolutely reclad triple gable type that opens as much as two new monopitch pods to the north. Present gable tops have been absolutely glazed, drawing mild into the open-plan inside, whereas the brand new sleeping pods present ample room for prolonged household. Though compact, the pods are properly deliberate and crafted to make sure good use of area.

The positioning of the brand new pods creates a pleasing stepped out of doors residing area sheltered from southerly winds. Steps of various heights create informal seating, whereas the timber decking serves to attach all buildings to one another and the foreshore.

Housing – Multi Unit 

Maitahi Quarter Townhouses by Jerram Tocker Barron Architects 

A web site with planning and flooding constraints required an architect who may navigate and remodel these challenges into alternatives. The result’s a set of enticing and practical townhouses overlooking the river, introducing a much-needed typology to a (presently) underpopulated city centre.

The intelligent use of adjustable vertical louvres permits occupants to get pleasure from views whereas avoiding being neglected by shut neighbours. Inner planning and storage have been well-considered to make sure the inside is strong, mild, spacious and well-proportioned.

Excessive-quality medium density properties reminiscent of these will draw folks again into the town, which inspires a extra sustainable way of life.

Public Structure

Motueka Public Library – Te Noninga Kumu by Jerram Tocker Barron Architects

Basically a constructing within the spherical, the Motueka Library responds successfully to its suburban setting. The uncovered laminated timber construction prompts the road edge, whereas the response to the general public area is extra intimate. Punched window openings give glimpses via to the adjoining Japanese gardens and bi-fold doorways result in exterior studying decks.

Toi Māori all through brings visibility to mana whenua and enhances a way of place and group connection. Sturdy exterior detailing, cladding and roofing mirror the character of the group’s agricultural roots. Photovoltaic panels and pure air flow are used successfully to handle operational efficiencies, and the considered selection of supplies has contributed to an uncomplicated inside end.

Training

Karamea Space Faculty by MOAA Architects

The brand new Karamea Space Faculty is a deceptively simple response to position and temporary. The old-fashioned has been changed by buildings that body three sides of the varsity’s taking part in fields. The primary block, a 72-metre-long gable, displays the pragmatic nature of native vernacular structure — milking sheds, moss-drying sheds and trendy tramping huts. Inside, workplaces, library and studying areas move simply from one to the subsequent by way of the perimeter, the place area can also be supplied for storage, loos and sought-after window seats. Beneficiant verandahs and porches enable for simple all-weather motion round and between buildings. The mono-pitched gymnasium is generously lit and supplies a much-appreciated group facility.

Resene Color Award 

Sturdy blocks of color — purple, ochre and gray — emphasise the significance of the Karamea Faculty as a group facility in an remoted city. Inside, clear timber finishes mix with color and various textures to create a vivid, ethereal and calm ambiance in what could be a difficult open-plan setting. Gentle moss-green carpet and furnishings appear an applicable selection on this cleared strip between the Kahurangi Nationwide Park and Tasman Sea. 

Industrial Structure

Cellar One, Cloudy Bay Vineyards by Paul Rolfe Architects

Cellar One represents a celebration of the winemaker’s artwork, with course of being evident as a design driver, giving perception into the nuances of wine manufacturing whereas expressing mechanics and gear geometries. Teamwork between architect, engineer, contractor and winemaker is clear within the intelligent insertion of the glass viewing pod suspended over the manufacturing corridor in a re-purposed agricultural area. The adjoining tasting galleries are artfully crafted to show the completed product.

Structural interventions are clearly expressed and provides new life and lightweight to an in any other case inflexible concrete shell. Finely crafted timber joinery provides to the refined detailing.

The New Zealand Wine Centre – Te Pokapū Wāina o Aotearoa
by Jerram Tocker Barron Architects

The Wine Centre reveals a delicate response to position and the broader setting, whereas offering a focus for various disparate parts. Given a fancy relationship between present buildings, this new addition seamlessly attracts all of them collectively. The massive verandah not solely makes a powerful entrance assertion, because it attracts customers in from the encompassing courtyard, but in addition supplies a collaborative public area. Clear pathways are created between present and future buildings.

Inside, a sequence of communal areas have been designed with a powerful concentrate on acoustic efficiency. That is achieved utilizing each ceiling and wall panels, creating an aesthetically pleasing and extremely practical inside.

Resene Color Award 

Color has been rigorously launched to strengthen the supposed use of the New Zealand Wine Centre as a collaborative hub. Lush inexperienced carpet and folded plate ceilings lined with regionally grown hardwood hyperlink all of the areas, whereas the super-structure, picked out in black, recedes. Gray and white triangulated acoustic panels occupy a lot of the meeting-room partitions and assist focus consideration inwards to the sharing of concepts. The easy however subtle color scheme is echoed in all furnishings, furnishings and cabinetry.

Actual Workspace by Rural Workshop Structure 

The fashionable interpretation of the agricultural shed homes a practical and nice workspace for a number of companies. The darkish weatherboard exterior is crisply detailed with metal eyebrows surrounding the recurring window/skylight mixture. The inside is mild and ethereal, making a pleasant and welcoming office. Utilities are hooked up to the entry facet in lean-to varieties, making certain the primary area is clear and open to the pitch all through.

The architect has used Structurally Insulated Panels, European joinery and low-energy mechanical elements to create a well-detailed energy-efficient constructing. Materials alternatives additional emphasise sustainable selections via native sourcing.

Enduring Structure Awards

Pohara Corridor (1971) by Alex Bowman, Architect

This iconic landmark is recognised and liked by many individuals in Golden Bay and past. With raised eyebrows to the street between Tarakohe and Pōhara, the group corridor represents an period now handed. Funded by Golden Bay Cement and designed by architect Alex Bowman, the corridor was constructed for group features, dances and theatre occasions. The beneficiant use of concrete speaks of its benefactor’s enterprise pursuits. The precast panels with uncovered mixture, externally expressed columns and open-ended rainwater shops between the softly curved roofs communicate of the architect’s affect.

Alpine Lodge (1984) by Ian Jack, Architect

Firmly embedded in its mountain panorama, Lake Rotoiti’s Alpine Lodge is as related and standard right this moment because it was 40 years in the past. The architect’s problem was to answer the highly effective setting, which was achieved via a rigorously composed array of steep-pitched roofs, whereas additionally offering a human-scale refuge. Low partitions and steep roofs spring from lush alpine gardens framing the primary entry and public areas. Inside areas are each intimate and uplifting. Dramatic dark-stained roof parts are offset by the heat of rimu lining. Beneficiant home windows begin low, typically with window seats offering heat locations to take a seat within the solar, whereas framing views to the beech forest and mountains past.

The NZIA Structure Awards programme is supported by Resene and APL.