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Terraced Housing Design Whare Tū Tūāpapa

1. Introduction 2. Site Design 3. Placing the Building 4. Street to Front Door 5. Outdoor Spaces 6. Accommodating Cars 7. The Building
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Site ecology and habitats
  • 2.3 Design for topography
  • 2.4 Design the Site and Houses together
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Types of Terraced Housing
    • 3.2.1 Terraced Housing
    • 3.2.2 Semi-detached Housing
  • 3.3 Fronts and backs
  • 3.4 Building separation and outlook
  • 3.5 Respect the neighbours
  • 3.6 Designing for light and sun
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Relating building to street
  • 4.3 Boundary treatments
  • 4.4 Safety, activity and overlooking
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Private outdoor spaces
  • 5.3 Communal outdoor spaces
  • 5.4 Service areas
  • 5.5 Get the most out of your landscaping
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Quality streets and accessways
  • 6.3 Safe & attractive shared driveways or accessway
  • 6.4 Parking options
    • 6.4.1 Access from the front : on-site
    • 6.4.2 Access from the front: on-street
    • 6.4.3 Parking behind
    • 6.4.4 Grouped parking: surface
    • 6.4.5 Grouped parking : basement, podium and undercroft
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Building form and appearance
    • 7.2.1 Building height and massing
    • 7.2.2 Building depth
    • 7.2.3 Integrated building facades
    • 7.2.4 Primary building elements
    • 7.2.5 Ends, Rows and Courtyards
  • 7.3 Typical layouts
  • 7.4 Weather tightness
  • 7.5 Building performance
    • 7.5.1 Keeping heat in the house
    • 7.5.2 Ventilating the house
  • 7.6 Terraced housing space
    • 7.6.1 Living and dining spaces
    • 7.6.2 Kitchens
    • 7.6.3 Bedrooms
    • 7.6.4 Private outdoor space – decks and balconies
    • 7.6.5 Storage and utility space

Case Studies

  • 3333 Main, Vancouver
  • Beaumont Quarter
  • Buckley Terraces, Hobsonville
  • Duke Street Terrace Housing
  • Manukau Road
  • Redfern East, Sydney
  • Regent Park
  • River Walk, Vancouver
  • Talbot Park
  • The Altair
  • The Promenade, Takapuna

    Beaumont Quarter

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    Overview

    High density development in a central city environment that utilises a wide range of typologies.

    Project Summary

    Project Summary

    ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​At the foot of an escarpment overlooking the Waitemata Harbour, the Beaumont Quarter sits across from Victoria Park on a site previously used for a gasworks. The site is in close proximity to central Auckland, and the motorway passes nearby.

    The 2.4ha site is large for the inner city, so the development of a master plan (a comprehensive long-term strategy) was necessary to organise the layout of the streets, the location and massing of the buildings. An overall landscape strategy was developed to define the outdoor amenity areas better.

    The developer was keen to ensure variety within the quarter so four different architectural practices were contracted to design the buildings and renovate the Victorian gas works. This variation in architectural styles helps create visual interest and diversity within the development.

    Beaumont Quarter is comprised of 238 units containing 33 different housing types. The development was delivered in three phases - stages one and two were predominantly terraced housing with stage three being mostly apartments.

    The architecture is contemporary, and of a modest scale. Elements such as balconies and the position of windows and doors provide each building with an attractive face to the street. This is further helped by a variation of building heights.

    The first stage of Beaumont Quarter received an architecture award from the New Zealand Institute of Architects in 2003.

     

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