Poynder Avenue House
By Sheppard & Rout Architects
2011
This substantial family home spreads itself in and around two anchoring spinal board-finished in-situ concrete walls on a large Fendalton rear section. The home includes three interlocking living spaces, five bedrooms, media room, underground wine cellar, garaging for five cars, and an outdoor pool area.
The overall robust design and resulting spinal walls came about from the client’s brief for a sense of substance and permanence. The concrete spines house services, offering good acoustic insulation, and serving as thermal masses for the home. Concurrently they also take on the role of ordering the various zones of the home which are all accessed off circulation spaces inserted between them. One of the spines continue externally as a low concrete wall separating the pool from the rest of the backyard.
Timber is employed throughout the home to provide further richness to the material palette and offer visual warmth to the extensive floor plan.
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We aim to produce humanist architecture comprised of stimulating and inspirational spaces and places.
We are a design-based practice that believes in providing tailor-made solutions to an individual client's needs. The fundamental objective of the practice is to develop architecture that is appropriate to its specific site, wider context and intended use while being robust, flexible and environmentally-aware.
These variables are used along with the appropriate structural considerations to develop buildings with well-suited form and style, instead of approaching the design from a stylistic standpoint.
The practice was established in 1982 in Christchurch by David Sheppard and Jonty Rout. In its 40 years the practice has carried out a wide range of projects covering many types and in numerous geographic locations. The founding partners brought to the practice extensive design and construction experience gained while working with other offices in both New Zealand and overseas. Tim Dagg joined Sheppard & Rout in 1986 and Jasper van der Lingen in 1993 and they both joined David Sheppard as Directors in 2006.
With David Sheppard now retired and Jonty very sadly passed away the practice is led by Directors Jasper van der Lingen and Tim Dagg and three Associate Directors; Matt Gutsell, Jonathan Kennedy and Steven Orr.
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