Architect’s own home renovation scores a hit with NZIA judges

Auckland architect Pete Bossley’s individual residence renovation has caught the eye of his friends – the project has been awarded a Housing – Alterations and Additions Award in this year’s NZIA Auckland Architecture Awards.

Bossley, who shares the dwelling with his companion, artist Miriam van Wezel, describes the challenge as “a tale of loving iterations intended to accommodate growing and contracting loved ones and guests”.

He suggests it is a place that has been frequently building about 20 years, with no at any time owning an “end-game” in sight. “It has absent from a few bedrooms to 4, back again to 3 bedrooms and workspace, and could nicely revert to 4 bedrooms if required.”

The NZIA jury praised the “array of ‘adjustments’ played out throughout the initial property in excess of a lot of years”.

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“Everywhere are moments of thoughtful consideration and experimentation, but also accumulation, that allow for the house to echo deeply the shifting nature of its owners’ lived collaboration.

The jury reported the house was “rich in idiosyncratic envelope shifts, mobile features, unanticipated interconnections, and an affable remodeling of entrance, again and aspect yards” and provides ”an utterly persuasive vision of position-remaking”.

‘Not about photograph-ready tidiness’

Bossley has also admitted the house is not about “photo-prepared tidiness”. “It is about dwelling in comfort with architectural delights: the central rest room with a watch through to the backyard, the way early morning shadows look across the ply and GRC fireplace surround, the informally hung artworks, the wavy handrail up the irregular entry steps……”

Colour plays a potent role, assuring the challenge also received a Resene Colour Award, with the Resene judges stating: “Colour is a medium that skilfully underscores the sophisticated spatiality deployed by both the architect and artist occupants of this excellent household alteration.

“Orange, inexperienced, red, blue – all over the place they splendidly interact to nuance and intensify the everyday styles of everyday living performed out here.”

Bossley claims the new extensions are developed as “floating planes of color, clad in fibre-cement sheet with uncovered fixings, to identify new aspects from previously iterations”.

“Internally, silver beech plywood and GRC (glass fibre-bolstered concrete) have been utilized to create streams of identification flowing by means of the current spaces.”