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Awards

NZ Institute of Architects New Zealand Award 2016

NZ Institute of Architects Local Award 2015

NZ Institute of Architects Resene Colour Award 2015

Master Builders Auckland Region Gold Award 2014

Master Builders Outdoor Living Lifestyle Award 2014

Architects: Bossley Architects

Project Team: Pete Bossley, Peter Sisam

Photography: © Simon Devitt

This generous seaside house is the latest in a series of houses Bossleys have done based on the idea of “encampment”. The large footprint is divided into three separate buildings, creating an “open courtyard” which draws the space of the beach up the valley and into the overall composition of buildings.

The iconic elements of this project are the beautiful roofs, folded planes composed of triangular facets which float over the rooms below. The ceilings are light coloured poplar plywood, creating soft shifts of light and space hovering over the rooms below. The modulation of the roofs reflects the rolling hills of the landscape around the valley.

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Fold House by Bossley Architects 03 — © Simon Devitt

Fold House by Bossley Architects 04 — © Simon Devitt

Fold House by Bossley Architects 05 — © Simon Devitt

Fold House by Bossley Architects 06 — © Simon Devitt

Fold House by Bossley Architects 07 — © Simon Devitt

All images courtesy of Bossley Architects

Bossley Architects

Pete has an extensive reputation in architecture and interior design, with particular experience in galleries and museums, residential and retail. He was the joint principal responsible for design and documentation of the architecture of the national Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, whilst a Director at Jasmax, including interior design of all public and work spaces. He is involved as a concept designer in all projects in the practice, and his work has received numerous architectural awards.He has exhibited and lectured extensively on his work here and overseas, including Tokyo, Vancouver, Santiago, and Australia. He has also taught architectural design for over 25 years, and was Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Unitec Architecture and Landscape School.

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CONTACT

2/55 Mackelvie St, Ponsonby
Auckland, New Zealand

PO Box 47748, Ponsonby, Auckland 1144

Ph + 64 9 361 2201
Fax N/A

Email: mail@bossleyarchitects.co.nz

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AWARDS

2018 The Architecture MasterPrize Award – Residential

2017 American Architecture Award

2016 IIDA Excellence in Design Awards

2016 AIA Austin Design Award

The Cuernavaca Residence is the latest installment in an evolving constructed landscape on a two-acre family compound that is shared by the client and her sister. Nestled in a wooded lot, the home forms an ensemble with an existing pool house. The latter’s board-formed concrete walls establish the material basis for the new residence, which is home to a family of five and includes two home offices. The house features a restrained vocabulary of rift sawn oak, mill finished steel, galvanized metal panels, and concrete—that alternates in orientation and pattern. Taken together, these materials create an environment rich in texture and animated by sun and shade over the course of a day.

The house slips between the existing pool house and a magnificent live oak, defining discrete terrains on the property. Long views are established: east to the limestone shelf of the Colorado River; north to a rolling meadow; west to a grove of oaks and the shared pool house. A double-height porch, with an outdoor fireplace, provides an outdoor family room; a second-floor roof deck affords constant breezes and stunning views to the limestone cliffs. Aligned with these natural features, the house welcomes engagement with circumstances of this particular landscape as the owners move through their home; further, the house provides a sense of the entire property in incidental moments.

Alterstudio Architecture

Cuernavaca Residence by Alterstudio Architecture 03 — © Casey Dunn

Cuernavaca Residence by Alterstudio Architecture 04 — © Casey Dunn

Cuernavaca Residence by Alterstudio Architecture 05 — © Casey Dunn

Cuernavaca Residence by Alterstudio Architecture 06 — © Casey Dunn

Cuernavaca Residence by Alterstudio Architecture 10 — © Casey Dunn

Cuernavaca Residence by Alterstudio Architecture 08 — © Casey Dunn

Cuernavaca Residence by Alterstudio Architecture 07 — © Casey Dunn

All images courtesy of Alterstudio Architecture

Alterstudio Architecture

Alterstudio Architecture, LLP of Austin, Texas is a full service architecture and design firm known for its intellect in design, inventiveness, craftsmanship, and details. The work is rooted in deep-seated virtues of architecture – generous space making, shrewd manipulation of day-lighting, and meticulous attention to detail. The heightening of direct human experience and the framing of the complex circumstances of their situations are at the core of each project. more