Our final Itinerary, in Structure NZ’s September/October situation, recognised the advantages of elevated housing density. This one continues that dialogue, however with a shift in focus to stress the breadth of improvement and procurement fashions obvious at present. New Zealand’s raft of housing provide and high quality points won’t ever be solved by the speculative market alone. The first drivers for the growth in approaches are sometimes value discount and elevated affordability and fairness, whereas sustaining indoor environmental consolation, however different concerns embody the selection to dwell extra communally, the will for safety of tenure and a dedication to environmental sustainability.
Central authorities has been constructing state rental housing at densities larger than indifferent and row or terrace housing for the reason that late Thirties. Its prototypes, the Centennial Flats (1938–1940) and Dixon Avenue Flats (1940–1944), are in Wellington and each at the moment are Class 1 historic locations. Auckland and Wellington Metropolis Councils additionally turned vital suppliers of public housing within the post-war interval: Auckland most famously with terrace housing and star flats in Freemans Bay, and Wellington with a sequence of huge blocks in Mount Cook dinner and Newtown.
This century, Kāinga Ora has demonstrated a dedication to densifying lots of its older housing areas — albeit with out due regard for the heritage worth of the prevailing buildings, in some circumstances. The company has been working carefully with native authorities and personal companions to facilitate improvement and development. Its latest use of offsite and modular development has the potential to be transformational for the development sector however, given the present Nationwide-led Coalition’s slashing of public-sector budgets, there’s the potential for data and momentum to be misplaced.
Maybe most encouraging proper now could be the personal sector’s embrace of build-to-rent housing. There may be a lot to have fun on this method, beginning with the dedication to constructing properly within the first place, in an effort to minimise future upkeep prices. The long-term view is vital, not solely by way of upkeep and restore but in addition as a result of it opens up the opportunity of longer tenancies, giving occupants safety, stability and a way that the place during which they dwell actually is their house.
People eager to personal their very own houses however disillusioned by market costs have pursued different choices, notably cohousing, during which teams of individuals pool assets to scale back improvement prices by economies of scale after which dwell extra communally by sharing facilities, such because the land, gardens, laundries, bike sheds and a restricted variety of automobiles.
Papakāinga, developed by iwi or hapū for his or her members, additionally mix personal houses with communal facilities. Till lately, new papakāinga developments usually comprised particular person homes, typically single storeyed, however that is beginning to change. Anahera Rawiri, Rau Hoskins and Irene Kereama-Royal name the brand new typology vertical papakāinga. They clarify that for Māori, having folks residing above different folks’s heads was historically understood to be tapu. Their analysis means that that is much less of a problem when all are whānau and that vertical papakāinga present elevated potential for development from renting to fairness sharing and, in the end, house possession.
Lastly, New Zealand has a rising variety of group housing suppliers. The time period group housing encompasses varied forms of amenities, which function independently of presidency and on a not-for-profit foundation, motivated by a perception that the general public sector just isn’t doing sufficient to accommodate society’s most susceptible. Suppliers typically entry some central authorities assist, together with grants and loans from the Housing Innovation Fund and subsequent Social Housing Fund.
In housing, one measurement doesn’t match all. The sector is diversifying and the assorted fashions are all welcome in a time of such extensively recognised want.
THE ITINERARY
1. 1999–2008, Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood
457 Swanson Highway, Rānui, Auckland Robin Allison
Earthsong is a 32-home cooperative housing improvement in west Auckland. Architect Robin Allison’s brainchild, it was premised on group and permaculture residing. Within the early Nineties, Allison began speaking to potential collaborators and researching precedents and native authority necessities. The advanced includes a shared constructing for group get-togethers, unit-titled houses in brief rows, well-established productive gardens, an orchard and native bushes, and grouped carparking. Earth constructing, passive photo voltaic achieve, photo voltaic hotwater heating and rainwater use have been vital concerns. See Robin Allison, Cohousing for Life (2020).
2. 2007–2015, Wellington Metropolis Council Housing
Varied addresses Varied architects
Wellington Metropolis Council is our second-largest social housing supplier, after Kāinga Ora. Its more moderen work contains the improve of a number of Nineteen Sixties’ and Nineteen Seventies’ blocks. Amongst these are: Novak+Middleton’s improve of Te Ara Hou Flats, Constable Avenue (NZIA Native Award, 2010), and Central Park Flats, Nairn Avenue (NZIA New Zealand Award, 2014); and Studio Pacific Structure’s improve of the Newtown Park Flats, Mansfield Avenue (NZIA Native Award, 2013). New builds embody Designgroup Stapleton Elliott’s Regent Park Flats, Owen Avenue (NZIA New Zealand Award, 2013), and Marshall Court docket Flats, Tahi Avenue (NZIA New Zealand Award, 2015).
3. 2011–ongoing, Hobsonville Level
Hobsonville, Auckland Varied, together with Isthmus Group and Construkt Architects
Hobsonville Level has been described because the nation’s greatest master-planned residential improvement. The previous Defence Drive airbase was developed from scratch by the Hobsonville Land Firm, established in 2006 as a subsidiary of Housing New Zealand Company. It includes some 4500 houses, lots of them now privately owned, from homes and duplexes to terrace housing and bigger condominium buildings, by a raft of main architectural practices. Facilities embody parks, playgrounds, biking and strolling routes, cafés, eating places and day care for kids, offered to boost liveability and a way of group.
4. 2015, Zavos Nook Flats
76 Brougham Avenue, Mount Victoria, WellingtonParsonson Architects
Zavos Nook is an early instance of what’s now a wave of build-to-rent condominium schemes. The eight-unit advanced was developed by a pair with long-standing household connections to the positioning. It’s a delight. In a cottagey neighbourhood, however with a Modernist condominium constructing to its north, it meets the problem of being each contextual and modern on the similar time, with small-scale components within the Athfield-Walker custom, notably varied cottage-like projections. In 2016, it was the primary multi-unit scheme to earn the NZIA’s Sir Ian Athfield Award for Housing and was additionally HOME journal’s Dwelling of the Yr. See Structure NZ Nov/Dec 2016.
5. 2016, Kāinga Tuatahi
144–154 and 155–165 Kupe Avenue, Ōrākei, Auckland Stevens Lawson Architects
Kāinga Tuatahi has been described as the primary medium-density papakāinga, constructed to offer inexpensive high quality housing for Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei members and whānau. The hapū retains possession of the land and sells the two-, three- and four-bedroom houses to hapū members and whānau on a leasehold foundation. The 30 houses span either side of Kupe Avenue, grouped collectively below gabled roofs that Stevens Lawson describes as korowai (cloaks). Kāinga Tuatahi contains shared outside amenities, akin to barbecue and play areas and vegetable gardens. It earned an NZIA Native Award in 2017. See Structure NZ Sept/Oct 2018.
6. 2016–2020, 26 Aroha
26 Aroha Avenue, Sandringham, Auckland Jasmax
26 Aroha is build-to-rent and exemplifies a dedication to environmental sustainability. The 13-unit, three-car-park scheme is 9 and 10 Homestar rated, with Stonewool insulation, rainwater assortment, solar energy and sizzling water, roof-top laundry amenities, a shared electrical automotive, space for storing for bikes and scooters, charging factors for e-bikes and a communal meals backyard. Christopher Kelly identifies it as “the primary THAB off the rank (haw)” and suggests Auckland Council ought to have used it as a poster-child for elevated density in Terrace Housing and Condominium Buildings Zones. It earned an NZIA Native Award in 2021. See Structure NZ Nov/Dec 2020.
7. 2018–2020, Toiora Excessive Avenue Cohousing
Nook Alva and Excessive Streets, Dunedin Architype
Toiora is known to be New Zealand’s first licensed passive home cohousing scheme. Its 21 houses mix triple glazing, thick partitions, and a excessive diploma of insulation and airtightness with passive home mechanical air flow, preserving interiors at 20 to 22 levels all year long. Two rows with houses of various measurement (as much as 5 bedrooms) are at proper angles to one another, framing a communal backyard. The positioning was previously house to a faculty, a part of which was retained to function a group centre with a eating space and assembly rooms. The scheme earned an NZIA Native Award in 2023. See Structure NZ Jul/Aug 2023.
8. 2018–2021, Cohaus
11 Surrey Crescent, Gray Lynn, AucklandStudio Nord
In producing maybe our most mentioned latest cohousing challenge, the architects have been central to forming a bunch of 20 households to fund and occupy its terrace homes and residences. Occupants share a spread of amenities, notably a standard backyard and ‘backyard home’. Awarding an NZIA Native Award in 2023, the jury was effusive: “The understated road presence of Cohaus conceals a wealthy inner complexity and a tight-knit group. The result’s a brand new typology for medium-density housing in Aotearoa New Zealand… [which] establishes a brand new bar to which future multi-unit initiatives ought to aspire.” See Structure NZ Nov/Dec 2021.
9. 2007–2022, HomeGround
140 Hobson Avenue, Auckland Stevens Lawson Architects
This competition-winning design for the Auckland Metropolis Mission, Te Tāpui Atawhai, takes award-winning structure to Central Auckland’s homeless. It’s house to 80, many in 30-square-metre bedsits. Gables seek advice from church buildings and wharenui, whereas the structural metal exoskeleton is like an summary tukutuku panel. Cross-laminated and different timbers are used elsewhere. HomeGround’s entrance desk and assist amenities are on a pedestrian laneway by the constructing, connecting Hobson and Federal Streets. The challenge earned the NZIA’s John Scott Award for Public Structure in 2022. See Simon Wilson, HomeGround (2022).
10. 2022, Block Social gathering
Southgate, Wellington Spacecraft
Designed by a younger agency with a string of modest however adventurous single household homes, this challenge demonstrates how properly cohousing would possibly ship for these not properly served by the property ladder. Constructed for a crew of mates, these 4 two-bedroom models present how intelligent design can convey liveliness and generosity, even in compact areas. Sturdy supplies, thought of particulars and individualised color schemes animate the models. The bravura second is on the road frontage: a big occasion deck and customary social area enclosed in polycarbonate. Easy to the purpose of audacity, this design reveals modest means needn’t restrict ambition. See Structure NZ Might/June 2023.
11. 2019–2023, Te Mātāwai
139 Greys Avenue, Auckland MODE Design Corp
Te Mātāwai replaces the outdated Higher Greys Avenue Flats (1954–1959), a constructing very similar to Wellington’s Gordon Wilson Flats in type and spatial planning. It’s unlucky that Kāinga Ora couldn’t adapt the outdated flats to work for at present’s inner-city state housing tenants. The brand new facility greater than trebles the variety of models, mixes private and non-private tenants (70 per cent to 30 per cent) and contains ‘wraparound assist’ and well being companies for individuals who want them. When Invoice McKay reviewed it, he concluded that it’s properly deliberate, properly completed and heat: “I’d dwell right here.” It earned an NZIA Native Award in 2024. See Structure NZ Nov/Dec 2023.
12. 2021–2023, 22–24 Level Chevalier Highway
Level Chevalier, Auckland Tawera Group and Paul Brown & Associates
That is one in all plenty of Kāinga Ora initiatives utilising modular development with a view to rushing up development whereas additionally lowering the price of it. Greater than 60 single-bedroom residences have changed eight homes, together with one destroyed by fireplace. The residences have been constructed off web site as modules or pods, full with kitchens and bogs. In principle, such buildings will be inbuilt lower than 12 months. Varied native and abroad firms are constructing the pods. These within the Level Chev challenge have been imported from China by Tawera Group, which specialises in modular development.
13. 2022–2023, Kupenga Flats
Varied addresses, Level England, Auckland Brewer Davidson
Kupenga was the primary in Simplicity Residing’s burgeoning build-to-rent portfolio. The corporate is a part of Simplicity, a not-for-profit KiwiSaver fund supervisor, and works as investor, developer, builder, proprietor and property supervisor to supply heat, dry, long-lasting rental houses. It will increase efficiencies and reduces development waste by utilizing modular design and standardised dimensions and componentry, together with prefabrication the place practicable, with delicate variations in particular person complexes. It’s dedicated to taking care of its buildings and, commendably, has enabled longterm tenants to have their rental will increase pegged to inflation.
14. 2023, Oxford Terrace Baptist Church Housing
288 Oxford Terrace, Christchurch Andrew Barrie Lab
Church buildings have lengthy been suppliers of housing however this ’quake rebuild takes the additional step of searching for to create a group encompassing all features of each day life. Maybe unsurprisingly, the challenge follows a monastic mannequin, with a set of two-, four- and five-bedroom residences being added to a 2018 constructing containing church areas, parish social amenities and social service company workplaces. The buildings are organized round a cloister, with all facilities wanting onto and accessed from this frequent area. A final block containing housing and additional social areas will quickly full the advanced. See Structure NZ Jan/Feb 2020.
OTHER ADDRESSES
2015–2016, Te Aro Pā Papakāinga 312 Evans Bay Parade, Hataitai, Wellington Walker Structure & Design A collaboration between Dwell Housing Belief, Ngāti Ruanui and Taranaki iwi. NZIA Native Award, 2018.
2017–2020, Waterview Court docket Nice North Highway, Waterview, Auckland Ashton Mitchell 120 models for Kāinga Ora. NZIA Nationwide Award, 2021.
2018–2020, Westlight Flats 6–8 Waikumete Highway, Glen Eden, Auckland MC2 Architects
2020, Rangiora Housing Excessive and White Streets, Rangiora Rohan Collett Architects 28 models for Kāinga Ora. NZIA Nationwide Award, 2021.
2020, Modal 845 New North Highway, Mount Albert, Auckland Ockham Residential Ockham’s first build-to-rent.
2021, Kōtukutuku Papakāinga16–20 Franklyne Highway, Otara, Auckland TOA Architects For the Mahitahi Belief.
2020–2023, Moroki 46–50 Line Highway, Glen Innes, Auckland Construkt Architects A build-to-rent scheme from New Floor Residing and iwi collective, Hāpai.
2022–2024, Elevation 205–211 Lake Highway, Northcote, Auckland TLC Modular Two modular blocks, constructed with pods imported from Vietnam.
SOURCES
Two of the schemes on this itinerary have every been the topic of a devoted monograph: Robin Allison, Cohousing for Life: A Sensible and Private Story of Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood (Auckland: Mary Egan, 2020); and Simon Wilson, HomeGround: The Story of a Constructing that Modifications Lives (Auckland: Massey College Press, 2022). Different helpful titles embody: Karen Witten, Wokje Abrahamse and Keriata Stuart, Progress Misconduct? Avoiding Sprawl and Enhancing City Intensification in New Zealand (Auckland: Steele Roberts Aotearoa, 2011); Sarah Bierre, Philippa Howden-Chapman and Lisa Early (eds.),Properties Folks Can Afford: How you can Enhance Housing in New Zealand (Wellington: Steele Roberts Aotearoa, 2013); James Brown, Tenants, Tenacity, Troubles and Triumph: Dwell Housing Belief; Greater than a Landlord, 1981–2001 (Wellington: Dwell Housing Belief, 2021); and Fiona Cram, Jessica Hutchings and Jo Smith (eds.), Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua: Māori Housing Realities and Aspirations (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2022). The supplier web sites are additionally helpful sources.
The Itinerary sequence is supported by Dulux Colors of New Zealand. Dulux Color Specialist Davina Harper has chosen a Colors of New Zealand palette based mostly on this itinerary. See the total vary and order color samples right here.
