Shoal Sanctuary

An exciting new project by our talented Architectural Design Manager Frank Stanton

Surrounded by the Southern Hawkes Bay's stunning coastal landscape, Shoal Sanctuary provides for an exceptional living environment beach side retreat to enjoy quality time with both family and friends within a spacious three bedroom dwelling.

Stage One

Throughout a dedicated and well considered design process, Frank was able to ensure a high-quality bespoke home resulted for our client, Scott & Nichole Gibb, that’s associated construction is now well underway. Key design principles & outcomes revolved around procuring an exceptional living environment beach side retreat to allow Scott & Nichole to enjoy quality time with both their extended family & friends within this.

Image one: Site layout plan                                   Image two: Coastal Pavilion view

“Scott and Nichole have been amazing clients to work with allowing us to really explore just what could really occur within the confines of their perfectly situated property that enjoys stunning uninterrupted vistas of the neighbouring landscape. With a smallish site and restrictive building controls and need to provide a stylish spacious dwelling that still portrayed an aesthetically minimalistic accent so as to keep in balance with the surrounding environment, provided a great challenge that all bespoke home specialist designers enjoy.”

Image three: North courtyard view                        Image four: Fire area internal view

The clients desired built form and associated indoor and outdoor spaces were therefore carefully designed to mitigate yet embrace both the regions summertime warm strong valley winds and cooling Pacific Ocean sea breeze. Throughout winters chilling southerly blasts, the considered layout offers inviting cozy spaces fireside reading or lounging out while watching the big game within the media / bar room.

Image five: Site ready for construction                  Image six: water tanks in

The dwelling building itself consists of three interconnected pavilion structures with the dwellings internal visual form expressing the character of a beach side ‘Hampton’ theme house along with portraying industrial visual forms through the use of internally exposed steel portal frames. Large format glazing focuses viewing lines from principle internal living spaces northwards out over the adjacent open reserve area landscape and beyond to the beauty of the ‘Razor Back’ coastal hillside rangers.

Stage Two

Image seven: Building platform excavation            Image eight: Floor slab boxing

Images nine and ten: Floor slab poor

Outside, the adjoining gable pitch roof structures are designed to reflect the interlinked peaks of the surrounding coastal ranges with further exposed steel framing forming visual links to the surrounding historical farming buildings. All visually exposed external materials have been specifically selected to echo the patterns and colour tone accents of the surround landscape, we will discuss this in more detail in one of our future upcoming newsletters.

Images eleven and twelve: Wall framing taking shape

“We are extremely proud of the design that transpired for this project and appreciatively thank Scott and Nichole for their time and contribution towards the overall design process. The projects builder’s carpenters Wakelin Contracting Services Ltd are doing an excellent job of executing this exciting bespoke build and we look forward to seeing their fine craftmanship bring everything together.”

With the construction process for this beautiful bespoke home now underway, and we look forward to sharing this journey with you further. Stay tuned for more exciting updates on Shoal Sanctuary.

Stage 3

Exciting progress being made at our Shoal Sanctuary project with the steel framing installed along with completion of the wall and roof timber framing. Local fabricators Red Steel Napier along with Napier Sandblasting Co have done an excellent job in crafting the visually exposed steel framing members be it the large portal frames that span internally within the Coastal Pavilion or the magnificent External Courtyard roof truss incorporating the client’s feature sea anchor piece.

Images thirteen and fourteen. Front pavilion taking shape

A critical roof top weatherproofing construction process involving the formation of the adjoining gable pitch roof internal box gutter formations has also successfully been completed by our expert builders in conjunction with the professional qualified services of Hawkes Bay Membrane Solutions. Attention to detail applied throughout the design process & subsequent construction process has ensured practical complying gutter formations are procured that are lined with the highly respected Viking Enviroclad TPO waterproofing membrane product.

Images fiftteen to seventeen: Framing complete

Our local expert carpenters Wakelin Contracting Services Ltd continue to work their magic in bringing this exciting bespoke build to life. Each day the building form certainly starts to look more like our initial concept visual renders, how good is that surrounding coastal landscape!!

Stage 4

Images: External cladding complete

Our architectural design manager Frank Stanton recently visited Shoal Beach in the Southern Hawkes Bay to check the progress of the fantastic carpentry work that the professional team from Wakelin Contracting Services Ltd are delivering in constructing the Shoal Sanctuary project.

Images: Steeling work, flashing, interview view

With excellent warm summer weather on offer we were able to capture some magical images and videos of this special coastal bespoke build coming to life as it nears completion of the Nu-Wall external cladding installation stage.

Interview part one: Architectural Design Manager Frank chats with Alan and Nic from Wakelin Contracting

Interview part two: Architectural Design Manager Frank chats with Alan and Nic from Wakelin Contracting

Interview part three: Architectural Design Manager Frank chats with Alan and Nic from Wakelin Contracting

Interview part four: Architectural Design Manager Frank chats with Alan and Nic from Wakelin Contracting

Video: Internal walk through

A big thank you to Scott & Nichole and their local beach side friends for the great hospitality shown towards us throughout the visit, we couldn’t have asked for a better stay at such a magnificent patch of coastal New Zealand!!

This project was completed by our Architectural Design Manager Frank Stanton. If you have a bespoke project in mind and would like to find out more about the design process you can contact Frank at frank@hsld.nz or call (09) 431 4568. To find out more about Architecture Design click here.