St Helier’s House

RESIDENTIAL

• PROJECT

  St Heliers House

• LOCATION

  St Heliers, Auckland

• STATUS

  Completed

• AWARDS

  • NZ Institute of Architects Branch Award 1986

  • AHI Environmental Award - Highly commended 1986

A diagonal wall punctuates the orthogonal plan, referencing the seismic fault lines that run the length of New Zealand.

This wall starts at the entry and slices through the house, fragmenting into columns and beams as it projects towards the harbour, and setting up a gesture that continues through the landscaping and culminates in a split column ruptured by the ‘fault’.

Extremely sculptural, the house incorporates exciting changes in spatial volumes, forms and massing. The limited palette of colours and materials ensures coherency and allows the house to come to life with the impact of natural and artificial light.

Water is a continuing theme which starts at the Entry pools and reappears as a cascade falling from the swimming pool toward the tennis court and continues as a dramatic sculpture/fountain addressing the street.

The current version of this house is an extensive modification of a project designed by Pete Bossley Architects in 1985.

We designed all hard landscaping and sculptural elements.