Irving Jack Smith Architects Ltd
Project Location:
Brightwater, Nelson
Categories:
Residential Architectural Excellence
Project Description:
Situated beneath the Richmond Ranges, in New Zealand’s South Island, this verandah provides new living spaces for an inter-generational family between their existing farmhouse and pool.
Like the mountain ranges above them, the new house concertinas in silhouette to define connected sitting, dining and kitchen areas within a single communal space for all the family to converge and spread out within.
This single transition space is articulated to a series of living areas through volume and light rather than between walls. Each ceiling fold defines program space, connecting in series parallel to landscape. Volume continuously responds to the exterior environment, with light captured through full length northern glazing, differentiated by perimeter wall dividers, and then held and released between warming horizontal timber ceiling and flooring planes. Hoop Pine, poplar and maple finishes layer richness and invitation to counter the open scale and the rear concrete walls which orientate the interior outwards to the landscape whilst providing thermal mass to stabilize the large space environment.