se 2 of our award-winning colourful Saddle Hill house will soon be underway.
Portfolio
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Happy Valley garage, sleepout, and landscape redevelopment
Where a small shed once stood, there will soon be a brand-new garage/boatshed and sleepout for our Happy Valley clients.
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Te Whare-iti
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.
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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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Waikanae active solar home
This heavily insulated house demonstrates the flexibility of active solar design.
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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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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.