Architect’s own home renovation scores a hit with NZIA judges

Auckland architect Pete Bossley’s possess household renovation has caught the eye of his peers – the challenge has been awarded a Housing – Alterations and Additions Award in this year’s NZIA Auckland Architecture Awards.

Bossley, who shares the dwelling with his companion, artist Miriam van Wezel, describes the project as “a tale of loving iterations built to accommodate increasing and contracting spouse and children and guests”.

He states it’s a position that has been regularly building about 20 several years, with no ever possessing an “end-game” in sight. “It has long gone from 3 bedrooms to 4, back again to a few bedrooms and workspace, and could well revert to 4 bedrooms if expected.”

The NZIA jury praised the “array of ‘adjustments’ performed out throughout the authentic home more than numerous years”.

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“Everywhere are times of thoughtful thought and experimentation, but also accumulation, that let the property to echo deeply the shifting nature of its owners’ lived collaboration.

The jury mentioned the house was “rich in idiosyncratic envelope shifts, mobile aspects, sudden interconnections, and an affable transforming of entrance, back again and facet yards” and gives ”an totally persuasive vision of put-remaking”.

‘Not about photo-completely ready tidiness’

Bossley has also admitted the house is not about “photo-all set tidiness”. “It is about dwelling in comfort and ease with architectural delights: the central lavatory with a check out as a result of to the backyard, the way early early morning shadows glance throughout the ply and GRC hearth surround, the informally hung artworks, the wavy handrail up the irregular entry steps……”

Color plays a robust job, assuring the undertaking also gained a Resene Colour Award, with the Resene judges stating: “Colour is a medium that skilfully underscores the complex spatiality deployed by each the architect and artist occupants of this wonderful household alteration.

“Orange, environmentally friendly, crimson, blue – just about everywhere they splendidly interact to nuance and intensify the day by day styles of daily life played out here.”

Bossley says the new extensions are built as “floating planes of colour, clad in fibre-cement sheet with uncovered fixings, to establish new elements from before iterations”.

“Internally, silver beech plywood and GRC (glass fibre-reinforced concrete) have been used to make streams of id flowing via the current areas.”