Stephenson Shand House
By Bonnifait + Associates Architects
Stephenson Shand House
This major renovation consisted of bringing sunlight within this large concrete-block house, organizing a coherent circulation and airflow throughout. Large skylights punctuating the roof space are filling the house with sunlight and reaching to the views.
The clients wanted also to develop an interactive commercial enterprise including accommodations, cooking workshops and yoga retreats. A separate wing in the main House hosts two self-contained bedrooms while the living spaces are created to cater for these various activities: cooking workshop and reserve, Yoga studio, large kitchen and dining complemented by three different sitting areas and adjoining exterior terraces.
Another part of the brief was a new separate 50m2 guesthouse for the clients parents to live on. The Guesthouse was positioned on a higher plateau in line with the main body of the house allowing seclusion while being visually connected. The strict repetition of form creates a coherent set of buildings.
Photographs by Russell Kleyn
Location: Peka Peka, Kapiti Coast
Date: 2018
Program: Residential
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Atelierworkshop was founded in 2000 on a plurality of thoughts and languages as a working process. The collaborative has different and diverse architectural experience in various parts of the world that combine professional work and research.
Their approach is orientated towards reconnecting people with a physical reality, a territory, its history and a cultural context. Over 23 years in practice they have developed a portfolio from bespoke residential and commercial boutique architecture to light industrial development, regenerative tourism and eco farm development.
“Our architecture seeks to reveal the landscape and the environment through innovation and common sense. Our projects are developed from a concern for forming one body with the site. Without compromising on design, we put priority on finding sustainable solutions".
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