Bennett Residence

McFarlane Street, Oakura, New Zealand

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Bennett Residence

McFarlane Street, Oakura, New Zealand

Firm

Type

Residential › Private House

YEAR

2011

SIZE

25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

BUDGET

$100K - 500K

The client’s brief for this site was to create a
multi-levelled home on a modest budget which included the use of bleached cedar, exposed masonry
and modernist cube forms.

The level front of the site was uncompacted fill up to 8m in
depth so to avoid costly foundations the house was dug into the good soil of
the existing slope which made it easy to create to a courtyard at the middle
level.

The form concept was one of an extruded black box punching
through a traditional gable. The black box has been cantilevered to project
speed and define the shape. It is clad with vertical Colorsteel “Styleline” to
enable a low maintenance solution with strong, sharp lines and features black
aluminium joinery.

The gable form cladding is Hermpac Cedar weatherboard with
custom profiled corners, barges and fasicas and silver aluminium joinery. The
blockwork is sealed with Resene Multishield.

The interior features Hardigroove sloping ceiling and
soffits, the use of stained oak timber for shelves, stairs and the feature
glazed wall to the office, a Ferva gas fire and stunning polished concrete
flooring. The kitchen uses English Tawa, stainless steel and white Corian.

Sustainability features centre on energy efficiency with the
house exceeding H1 by 40%. Thermal mass in the form of insulated precast
concrete flooring is a key. Materials have been sourced locally wherever
possible and the interior timber has been sourced from sustainable
plantations. Over half the lights are
LED.