Aonui Architecture

Te Whare-iti won a national competition for infill housing, specifically designed for backyards but is proving equally popular with buyers wanting a holiday home or a house for their lifestyle block that can be built in stages. It is easy to start with the service module with kitchen/bathroom/laundry, and add living spaces and bedrooms later.

This heavily insulated house demonstrates the flexibility of active solar design.

Two single hipped roofed pavilions nestle among a wetland of national importance and surrounded by fruit and nut trees. The two pavilions are bridged by an outdoor loggia and entry space.

Square pegs can’t go into a round hole – but with clever design, they can seamlessly fit a triangular plot.

Commanding views over Tawa and Porirua also come with raging wind and all day sun – perfect for maximising renewable energy.

The Wright family were willing participants – guinea pigs- in the active solar house experiment that has been their home since 2001.

The owners purchased this hilltop site overlooking Tutukaka with a view to operating a day spa, below a stealthy, healthy modern family home.

Prime views and idea microclimates are frequent contradictions and none more so than in the story of this Khandallah house.

Dunstan Halt was designed to be seen in the expansive Central Otago landscape but not intrude upon it.