Timber Design Awards 2012
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Category: 1. Residential Architectural Excellence
For the innovative use of timber, resulting in a distinctive visual impact on a residential building, either stand-alone or multi-unit/multi-storey project.
- Narrowneck House
Hillery Taylor Architecture Ltd - www.hillerytaylor.co.nz
Located on the coastal cliff edge of Devonport, the Narrowneck House stretches across a uniquely slim site with gracious views of Rangitoto Island.
Working in collaboration with the client, the brief allowed for an extensive use of timber in the exterior and interior surfaces and finishes, which ensured that the concept to provide a home of warmth and permanency was beautifully realised.
Two dominant pitched roof forms float above the roadside garage and the main northeast facing living areas. These two forms are then knitted with a more lo-lying component that contains the ‘zigzag’ hallway and separate bedrooms.
Exterior finishes employ:
- Dark stained cedar bargeboards.
- Painted cedar weatherboards.
- For privacy and weather protection adjustable cedar vertical louvered shutters surround the northern sides, which can be rotated to form an enclosed barrier.
- Darkened cedar timber doors & window joinery.
In harmony with the exterior finishes, the real magic & zing takes place within the interior, which aimed to compliment the clients extensive collection of wooden sculptures and figures gathered from their experiences in South Africa and the Philippines.
Inside, the applied timber finishes include:
- Stained Purple Heart TNG flooring anchors the interior.
- Anegre timber veneer shapes the kitchen design and all in-built cabinetry.
- The signature 'zig zag' hallway lined in cedar sarking is sealed in a translucent white glaze; repeated with the identical profile for the soffit linings, softened by the use of hand applied wood oils.
- purple-heart front door handles stylised around the ideas of hunting spears.
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