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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

    Talbot Park

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    Overview

    Cost effective walk-up apartment building that successfully addresses the street.

    Project Summary

    Project Summary

    ​​​​​​​​​​​​The Apirana Avenue apartments are part of a wider community renewal project undertaken by Housing New Zealand Corporation (HNZC) to redevelop ageing, unsafe housing stock at Talbot Park in Glen Innes.

    The Talbot Park project involved removing old houses and replacing them with a range of new houses and apartments - creating new roads and two parks. To create diversity in the buildings, HNZC selected eight different architectural teams to create the different types of buildings.

    Talbot Park was an exercise in setting a new benchmark in quality for medium density design and social housing. This apartment block is on a busy road and on a high-profile site – the quality of the design and construction was seen as extremely important by the client (HNZC).

    The apartments all have two bedrooms and are designed for couples or small families. The building received the New Zealand Institute of Architects Local Award in 2007.

    A walk-up in the park

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