PHOTO:SIMON WILSON The 10 x 10 house designed by Patchwork Architecture, tames a very steep site in Kilbirnie, Wellington. It has won a Housing Award in the NZIA Wellington Architecture Awards.
A contemporary house perched on a steep cliff in Kilbirnie has taken out a Housing Award in the Wellington Architecture Awards, part of the awards programme run by Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects.
The project, 10 x 10 House, by Patchwork Architecture, was described by the awards jury as an “adventurous and rigorously structured building that shows that steep sites in Wellington need not stand in the way of cleverly designed and built houses”.
“The design creates useable external spaces such as an expansive roof terrace with a playful ‘bus stop’ shelter that makes the climb up worthwhile.”
‘Impossibly thin columns help support the house on the cliff. Photo by Simon Wilson
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