Te Whare-iti has won a national competition for infill housing, specifically designed for Auckland backyards but is proving equally popular elsewhere with buyers wanting small homes for their beach sections, lifestyle blocks and retirement villages.
Portfolio
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Kitchen/living room alteration and addition
A little like a Tardis, this Martinborough home presents a modest footprint makes for a surprise on entering to discover its new three-bedroom status and wide-open plan living area.
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Lower Hutt house re-modelling
The addition of a new master bedroom and en-suite bathroom offered the opportunity to also create a welcoming entrance to this 1930s family home. Included in the upgrade was double glazing and a Soho Ventpac warm air circulation system energized by passive solar gain as well as a small wood fire. Previous cold bedrooms are now 100 percent free of condensation.
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New townhouse on Weld St
Our clients own the site on Wadestown’s steepest drive-able street – a 1-in-4 gradient in this part of Weld St! Challenging access on local roads made the first choice of a transported modular Te Whare-iti impractical, so this two-bedroom home on two levels, based upon the Te Whare-iti plan, will be built in-situ. Construction will be complete mid-2020.
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Wellington Potters’ Association
Wellington Potters’ Association owns a 1960s building in Thorndon originally built for a drama school. Aonui is managing the re-roofing and re-cladding contract to ensure the 600 members and their work stay dry and secure for another 50 years.
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Multi-generational house
Extended family living under one roof for reasons of tradition rather than economic necessity is becoming common in New Zealand especially among the more recent immigrant community.
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Nett Zero Box
The challenge of a net zero energy home in Central Otago – currently at design phase –is primarily one of maintaining thermal comfort throughout the temperature range between 35°C in summer and -10°C in winter.
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Wetlands Retreat, Kapiti Coast
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.
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Camborne active solar home
Another hillside house with a view to die for. The water views are expansive, and the hills of Plimmerton and Pukerua Bay are an equal treat.
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Rowing Clubs Seismic Strengthening
Aonui has been commissioned to coordinate the seismic strengthening of these popular buildings
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Pirie Street townhouse
A derelict building has made way for a new townhouse that planners agree will fit the neighbourhood well.
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Martinborough artist’s studio
Our computer generated image (CGI) artist client needed to put a little space between his family and work environment in central Martinborough.
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Toi Whakaari design studios
Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School acknowledged the role of set design in the success of stage and screen productions when it commissioned its new design studios in Te Whaea .
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Te Aro townhouses
Square pegs can’t go into a round hole – but with clever design, they can seamlessly fit a triangular plot.
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Saddle Hill house, Tawa
Commanding views over Tawa and Porirua also come with raging wind and all day sun – perfect for maximising renewable energy.
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Wadestown active solar home
The Wright family were willing participants – guinea pigs- in the active solar house experiment that has been their home since 2001.
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Tokelau schools
The Pacific island nation of Tokelau comprises 3 small atolls spread over 300 kilometres of ocean with the nearest neighbour Samoa 24 hours away by ship.
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Interislander ferry terminal
The comfort and safety of foot passengers embarking on the three Interislander ferries in Wellington and Picton has been one area of our work , the others being terminal planning and ship mooring systems.
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Hatuma Lime Company
Limestone rocks are a byproduct in the extraction and production of agricultural lime but make a dramatic cladding for these offices.
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Old Bank canopies
Hyperbolic PTFE paraboloids in cantilevered steel frames won the approval of the owners and dramatically increased foot traffic and retail trade.
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Hillsborough active solar house
The client’s desire for both floors of this Auckland house to receive passive solar gain through a two-storey glazed facade was solved with an excavated north-facing courtyard.
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Tutukaka
The owners purchased this hilltop site overlooking Tutukaka with a view to operating a day spa, below a stealthy, healthy modern family home.
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South-facing Khandallah House
Prime views and idea microclimates are frequent contradictions and none more so than in the story of this Khandallah house.
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Nuts ‘n May farmhouse
A commercial walnut orchard in Whanganui provides the setting for this unpretentious rural home.
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Greenaway Gardens Eco-community
Greenaway Gardens is an environmentally inspired subdivision that offers community members a rewarding relationship with nature.
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St Bathans House
Dunstan Halt was designed to be seen in the expansive Central Otago landscape but not intrude upon it.
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Waikanae rural retreat
This country house sits on top of a sharp ridge on 16 hectares of retired pastureland, with views over the Waikanae River.
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Bluebridge Ferry Terminal
Cook Strait ferry passengers using the Bluebridge service arrive and leave Wellington via this new terminal.
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Waikanae active solar home
This heavily insulated house is the second to be completed at Greenaway Gardens and demonstrates the flexibility of active solar design.
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St Joseph’s Hospital
Climate change as well as better health care for the people of Tokelau drove this NZAid project design by Aonui.
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Akatarawa Chapel
A superbly tranquil site was available for the proposed new crematorium and chapel in Akatarawa cemetery in Upper Hutt.
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Drovers Bar and Kitchen
The metamorphosis of The Drovers Return into DROVERS Bar & Kitchen followed this function room expansion designed by Aonui Architecture.