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Double Courtyard.

Title:: Double Courtyard
Architect:: Roberts Gray Architects
Category:: Residential/; New Builds
Building style:: Modern
Photographers:: Samuel Hartnett

The Double Courtyard House is a hybrid building type that merges two pavilions of contrasting character.

Set at different levels to follow the contours of the land, the house is both solid and hunkered into the dunes, while being permeable and continuous with the wider coastal landscape.

Two courtyards embody the character of the pavilion they are set within.

The private courtyard is contained, and the planting appears like a fragment of the outside dunes caught within the building.

In contrast, the front courtyard is open and operable, allowing it to read as an extension to the rooms located around its perimeter.

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Roberts Gray Architects. Roberts Gray Architects is a practice shaped by the collective experience of our directors which was formed in diverse contexts and challenging sites across Aotearoa New Zealand, the United States, Australia, and the Netherlands.Common to all projects is a desire to experiment with architecture’s enduring qualities and conventions while designing buildings and public spaces that are generous and accommodating of life. The pursuit of these qualities requires our work to be broad in scope and approach, and realised through a design process that is open and conversational.Our understanding of architecture as a cultural practice is reflected in the contributions that other disciplines, people,and places bring to each project. Shared authorship is made possible by the network of creative collaborators and clients we work with to promote an architecture that consistently imagines possibilities beyond the brief.