jucy snooze - christchurch

The Jucy Snooze backpacker hotel is the next concept in high quality, funky, affordable accommodation, with an emphasis on innovative technology and premium quality communal spaces. A fundamental idea of the facility builds on the common rituals of travel – checking in, exploration and excitement, meeting new people – and  looks to build them into the accommodation experience.

To this end ‘check-in’ kiosks and free high-speed Wi-Fi are utilised, capsule-style dorms have been designed, and a large communal lounge area complete with ‘hammock farm’ and communal kitchen are included. As well as the 128 Japanese-style capsule pods within 16 dorm rooms, there are 55 more conventional ensuited single, double and family rooms.

The team at archaus was essentially split into two – Architecture and BIM (3D services and structural modelling and coordination). Last but not least, congratulations should go to the team at Arrow International Ltd, who pulled the project together superbly.

tory street canopy - wellington

Located on 90 Tory Street a new canopy was proposed as a distinctive eye-catching veranda in addition to an existing building. The ground floor was to be gutted awaiting conversion for retail to restaurant/cafe usage and as such exterior covered seating areas were proposed to sit above the footpath level as frontages to the future restaurant spaces.

The canopy itself takes the form of a delicate waveform movement achieved by the regular placement of offset profiled fins. Each fin is powder coated and individually attached to the support structure behind, with the fins on the lower canopy allowing visual permeability through to the building behind by way of 1/2 height infill panels between. The canopy over the main entry lifts up and steps back from the street, providing a visual break in the street edge veranda as well as signifying entry location. The white powder coating and subtle curved profile generates a lovely quality of light and as a result the character of the canopy changes depending on sun angle and time of day.

2012

pak’n’save canopy and store extension - wellington

The canopy was commissioned to ensure customers have a dry shopping experience. Works included a 3,520m2 glue laminated timber canopy structure and associated carpark works. The building is located above one of the major fault lines in Wellington, so the design had to allow for major seismic movement. The extension works included a 5 metre wide extension to the store front and renovation of the existing mezzanine level office.

2014

red ginger restaurant

Located on the western side of Tory Street and in close proximity to Courtney Place, 82 Tory Street contains an existing two storey concrete building with a 3m setback from the Tory Street frontage. Formally a car service garage, the vacant ground floor tenancy has been transformed into a new contemporary Asian bar and restaurant.

A new floor to ceiling height glazed front, external feature screens, signage and a paved external seating area, brings life to what was a bland loading dock, and provides a visual link between the interior and exterior spaces. The industrial concrete shell interior, is exposed as a minimalist backdrop, and the insertion of high quality joinery items and feature lighting, brings a stylish vibrancy to the interior. The bar is located at the front, with the kitchen to the rear.

2010