Best multigenerational home design for Global Awards shortlisted
NEW YORK: The shortlist for the multigenerational home design has been declared.
Over 250 designs have been considered by the awards secretariat. One of the finalists in this category is shown above.
A contemporary house perched on a steep cliff in Kilbirnie has already taken out a Housing Award in the Wellington Architecture Awards, part of the awards programme run by Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects.
The project, 10 x 10 House, by Patchwork Architecture, was described by the awards jury as an “adventurous and rigorously structured building that shows that steep sites in Wellington need not stand in the way of cleverly designed and built houses”.
“The design creates useable external spaces such as an expansive roof terrace with a playful ‘bus stop’ shelter that makes the climb up worthwhile.”
A concrete core and impossibly thin columns cling to the clifftop, with a 10 metre x 10 metre square forming the basic house structure – a form that gives the house its name.
“Rigorously planned, bold and unapologetic, the design also creates useable external spaces with decks and terraces,” said the jury.
Architects Ben Mitchell-Anyon and Sally Ogle say the brief for the home of their “go-to builder” was to design something that captured “the killer views of the airport, ocean, and brightly painted Pak N Save”.
The house features floor-to-ceiling glass, and accommodates three bedrooms, an office, two bathrooms and “a flat(!) grassy bit for braziers and barbecues”.
The rooftop deck with its own bus stop is accessed by outside stairs and the yellow steel gangway.
“But you’d be waiting a while if you wanted to hitch a ride. Best to just stop, sit and enjoy the view,” the company says on its website. “We reckon it’s a ten out of ten.”
The Global Award winner will be announced in December in London. (Globals)
