Te Whare-iti won a national competition for infill housing, specifically designed for backyards but is proving equally popular with buyers wanting a holiday home or a house for their lifestyle block that can be built in stages. It is easy to start with the service module with kitchen/bathroom/laundry, and add living spaces and bedrooms later.
The Tower house generates the least disturbance on site in order to preserve the maximum number of trees.
Phase 2 of our award-winning colourful Saddle Hill house will soon be underway.
Where a small shed once stood, there will soon be a brand-new garage/boatshed and sleepout for our Happy Valley clients.
A little like a Tardis, this Martinborough home presents a modest footprint makes for a surprise on entering to discover its new three-bedroom status and wide-open plan living area.
The addition of a new master bedroom and en-suite bathroom offered the opportunity to also create a welcoming entrance to this 1930s family home. Included in the upgrade was double glazing and a Soho Ventpac warm air circulation system energized by passive solar gain as well as a small wood fire. Previous cold bedrooms are now 100 percent free of condensation.
Our clients own the site on Wadestown’s steepest drive-able street – a 1-in-4 gradient in this part of Weld St! Challenging access on local roads made the first choice of a transported modular Te Whare-iti impractical, so this two-bedroom home on two levels, based upon the Te Whare-iti plan, will be built in-situ. Construction will be complete mid-2020.
Wellington Potters’ Association owns a 1960s building in Thorndon originally built for a drama school. Aonui is managing the re-roofing and re-cladding contract to ensure the 600 members and their work stay dry and secure for another 50 years.
This heavily insulated house demonstrates the flexibility of active solar design.
Extended family living under one roof for reasons of tradition rather than economic necessity is becoming common in New Zealand especially among the more recent immigrant community.
The challenge of a net zero energy home in Central Otago – currently at design phase –is primarily one of maintaining thermal comfort throughout the temperature range between 35°C in summer and -10°C in winter.
Two single hipped roofed pavilions nestle among a wetland of national importance and surrounded by fruit and nut trees. The two pavilions are bridged by an outdoor loggia and entry space.
Another hillside house with a view to die for. The water views are expansive, and the hills of Plimmerton and Pukerua Bay are an equal treat.
Aonui has been commissioned to coordinate the seismic strengthening of these popular buildings
A derelict building has made way for a new townhouse that planners agree will fit the neighbourhood well.
Our computer generated image (CGI) artist client needed to put a little space between his family and work environment in central Martinborough.
Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School acknowledged the role of set design in the success of stage and screen productions when it commissioned its new design studios in Te Whaea .
Square pegs can’t go into a round hole – but with clever design, they can seamlessly fit a triangular plot.
Commanding views over Tawa and Porirua also come with raging wind and all day sun – perfect for maximising renewable energy.
The Wright family were willing participants – guinea pigs- in the active solar house experiment that has been their home since 2001.
The Pacific island nation of Tokelau comprises 3 small atolls spread over 300 kilometres of ocean with the nearest neighbour Samoa 24 hours away by ship.
The comfort and safety of foot passengers embarking on the three Interislander ferries in Wellington and Picton has been one area of our work , the others being terminal planning and ship mooring systems.
Limestone rocks are a byproduct in the extraction and production of agricultural lime but make a dramatic cladding for these offices.
Hyperbolic PTFE paraboloids in cantilevered steel frames won the approval of the owners and dramatically increased foot traffic and retail trade.
The client’s desire for both floors of this Auckland house to receive passive solar gain through a two-storey glazed facade was solved with an excavated north-facing courtyard.
The owners purchased this hilltop site overlooking Tutukaka with a view to operating a day spa, below a stealthy, healthy modern family home.
Prime views and idea microclimates are frequent contradictions and none more so than in the story of this Khandallah house.
A commercial walnut orchard in Whanganui provides the setting for this unpretentious rural home.
Greenaway Gardens is an environmentally inspired subdivision that offers community members a rewarding relationship with nature.
Dunstan Halt was designed to be seen in the expansive Central Otago landscape but not intrude upon it.
This country house sits on top of a sharp ridge on 16 hectares of retired pastureland, with views over the Waikanae River.
Cook Strait ferry passengers using the Bluebridge service arrive and leave Wellington via this new terminal.
Climate change as well as better health care for the people of Tokelau drove this NZAid project design by Aonui.
A superbly tranquil site was available for the proposed new crematorium and chapel in Akatarawa cemetery in Upper Hutt.
The metamorphosis of The Drovers Return into DROVERS Bar & Kitchen followed this function room expansion designed by Aonui Architecture.
