Oneroa Retail and Platform

Highly visible when approaching along Ocean View Road, and from properties to the south, a key aesthetic feature of the building’s design is the roof form. The roof is broken into three main forms. A timber battened street façade folds over into a horizontal plane to form the entry roof and canopy. Above this roof planes wrap over and along the upper level café space.

The public viewing platform is split into two levels and occupies the majority of the street frontage. The lower platform level extends into the café space, blurring the threshold between the public and the private areas. At the northern end of the platform, a public access stair leads down through the site connecting to the service lane, lower commercial spaces and a landscaped area with seating and a weaving path providing disabled access to the lower commercial areas.

Extensive glazing along the North-Eastern elevations of the commercial spaces provide unobstructed views of the bay. Large full height sliders allow the spaces to spill out onto terraces when the weather is favourable.

A limited, raw material palette consisting of metal roofing and cladding, stained timber and plain plaster was chosen to reflect typical Waiheke building materiality, while providing a level of durability required on a site exposed to extreme weather conditions.