The site is very steep section of a hill overlooking the bay and the valley in kingston beach. A room to teach piano becomes a display case that opens to the visitor and beyond to the courtyard containing trees.

design team:   room11
engineer:        Aldanmark
builder:           T.B.A
status:            documentation

The client wish for the kitchen to be the heart of the home generated the internal layout. The house revolves around this heart and eventually lifts to peer over the first level ring. Voids make the heart visible from most spaces within the house. The compact plan is made to feel larger employing these voids. Internal and external spaces are blurred at one extreme, and highly contained at others.

design team:     Aaron Roberts
engineer:           Aldanmark
photography:       Ben Hosking
status:                Complete

A place of calm and repose. An opposite to the clients busy lifestyle.  A place of rest. Strong connections are drawn with both the immediate and the distant landscape. Voids are sliced through the building to allow  sunlight and trees. Trees act as a seasonal body clock and alter the hue of the building as leaves move from green to red to white blossoms. The voids connect the building to the rock shelf, the trees, the immediate, allowing these elements to permeate the living and sleeping areas.

design team:    Aaron Roberts, Thomas Bailey
engineer:          Aldanmark
builder:             Col Heron, Michael Jarvis, Gary Cooper
status:              Completed
photographer:   Jasmin Latona