Shoal Sancturay
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 one: Building platform excavation Image two: Floor slab boxing
Image three and four: Floor slab pour
Image five: Wall framing
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.
Image six: 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.
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.
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