By Cottee Parker
After a collaborative consultation process with Ngāti Hauā and the wider community, Paretapu Developmentis an honest and enduring master-planned community that fosters family and provides homes for the growth of Waharoa’s future generations.
Consisting of 40 dwellings including a diversity of typologies ranging from accessible Kaumātua units to 5 bed homes, Paretapu Developmentis set in a former horticulture plot to the Southeastern edge of the existing Waharoa township.
Centred around a communal green space and community centre, the master-planned proposal seeks to breath life into the new community by subtly supporting permeability within the site using simple yet hardy materials and active frontages as well as enabling clear visual connections beyond the site to the local sporting fields and Kaimai ranges from afar.
Paretapu Developmentwill set a precedent for appropriate medium-density communities within the greater Waikato, New Zealand.
Cottee Parker transforms cities and shapes moments. Our Australasian practice has a global perspective, with architects, interior designers, digital engineers and visualisers balancing the commercial and the creative.
We value relationships and collaborations. This sentiment has grown up through the practice, when childhood friends and architects Geoff Parker and Rob Cottee founded the company in 1989. Today, their perspective has shaped the way our practice delivers projects and interacts with our industry.
As city shapers and experience makers, we are cognizant that good design is founded in commercial rigor, and it’s this reason that Cottee Parker is considered a trusted partner to realize our client’s ambitions throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Over the last few years, our hallmark projects include 34 Shortland Street in Auckland, Wanaka Central in Queenstown, West Side Place in Melbourne, The Ritz-Carlton at Elizabeth Quay in Perth and The Queen’s Wharf Integrated Resort Development in Brisbane.