Red Beach Terraces
By Smith Architects
The terrace houses were designed in Red Beach for Fletcher living, proposes high quality two level residential houses overlooking the neighbouring reserve.
The design offers each unit with a contemporary open plan layout, consisting of two to four-bedroom units. The careful selection of each building component is styled with high quality materials and fabrication methods. The choice of a simplistic material palette was favourable to express clean, straight lines that help define the subtle changes in texture and materiality.
The expression of the façade incorporates open gable and mono-pitch roofs to differentiate each unit as its own. The striking roof pattern of the building further gives an informal response to the internal planning of spaces within the individual houses.
Designed to look clean and light, the building is styled with horizontal weatherboard cladding and a dark aluminium roofing.
Internally, each unit incorporates large sliding doors and windows to keep the building naturally ventilated and lit throughout summer, this is further complemented with fixed-skylights within each unit for deep room penetration.
The division of functions between the two levels allows for a sense of privacy, connecting the occupants to their own private backyard, and improving seamless movement through the internal spaces.
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Client: Fletcher Residential
Location: Red Beach, Auckland, New Zealand
Construction cost: Confidential
Area: 90 – 150m²
Programme: Completed 2019
Project Team: Phil Smith, Yolande Kromhout
Construction: Fletcher Residential
Landscaper: Natural Habitats
Image Credit: Fletcher Residential
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Smith Architects is an award-winning international architectural practice creating beautiful human spaces that are unique, innovative and sustainable through creativity, refinement, and care.
Phil and Tiffany Smith established the practice in 2007. We have spent more than two decades striving to understand what makes some buildings more attractive than others, in the anticipation that it can help us design better buildings.
Recent advances in neuroscience and psychology have enabled scientists to unlock some of the reasons why we find certain works of art, objects and environments more attractive than others, and at the heart of it is simple Darwinian theory: if we find something attractive we will be more likely to choose that thing over another – be it a painting, a piece of music, a landscape or even a building.
At Smith Architects, we use these learning to inform our designs, striving to create beauty in everything we do, in the belief that beautiful spaces create better environments for human beings or ‘beautiful human spaces’.
We carefully integrates architectural, landscape, interior and furniture design skills to ensure projects achieve an holistic integrity that meets our client’s needs. At the core of our design rigour, we believe that modern, sustainable, research-based design delivers a successful project with innovative solutions that work for our clients.
Our Auckland, New Plymouth, and Arrowtown offices design and deliver projects ranging from refurbishments to new-builds; from domestic scale to urban master plans; from conception to completion. Our experience covers a broad range of typologies – masterplans, mixed-use schemes, residential; offices; cultural; educational; healthcare and childcare.
We work with a diverse client base, including developers, private, government and charities and have experience of working with multiple stakeholders on challenging sites around the world.
We are a member of the New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA), the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the New Zealand Green Building Council (NZGBC), Site Safe New Zealand, and the Sustainability Business Network.
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