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The Queenstown Country Club is a luxury lifestyle village, located on the Ladies Mile in Frankton.
QUEENSTOWN COUNTRY CLUB
Currently in construction, the 18,000m2 Care and Apartment building comprises eight wings set over three stories. Structural cross-laminated timber (CLT) has been utilised throughout, significantly reducing the building’s carbon footprint and improving its HomeStar rating.
The masterplan for the site includes:
• 147 architecturally designed stand-alone homes
• 97 luxury apartments
• 82 bed rest home, hospital and dementia care facility
• Clubhouse, complete with restaurant, café, movie theatre, pool room, bowling green and croquet lawn.
• Separate health spa, with an indoor heated lap pool accompanied by massage, hairdressing and therapy facilities.
This 4,020m2 facility provides 22 assisted care apartments at ground floor with 47 care units at first floor.
SOMME STREET ASSISTED LIVING AND CARE FACILITY
Each floor provides communal dining and lounge facilities, with a commercial kitchen and laundry at the ground floor. Each apartment opens out onto a private outdoor area. The central courtyard provides a large outdoor sheltered amenity. Additional facilities for the tenants include reading lounge, cafe, laundry, hair salon & bar.
The project is in a residential area, requiring resource consent and consideration of surrounding dwellings. The form and scale of the design is carefully considered to break up the building and present a
high-quality feel to suit the vernacular of the surrounds, whilst maximising allowable site coverage. The success of this approach meant that the design, which was subject to limited notification, did not receive any objection.
This project required an early start on site, achieved with a separate earthworks and sub-structure Building Consent package which progressed in advance of the superstructure works. In addition, the design utilises prefabricated bathrooms to achieve time and quality benefits.
Aria Bay is an existing Retirement Village located in the desirable suburb of Browns Bay, Auckland.
ARIA BAY 790 BEACH ROAD
Over the last 6 years, we have undertaken a number of developments to replace, upgrade and increase yeild within the site. The first project completed was a three-storey apartment building with basement car-parking, located at 790 Beach Road.
This building contains nine twobedroom apartments, ranging in size from 74m2 to 91m2, each carefully oriented to achieve good sunlight and views, and with generous external living areas. There is a common lounge and barbecue courtyard on the ground floor to promote community
living. To the west of the courtyard is a linked swimming pool and gym facility. The site slopes steeply upwards on the western side to existing bush, which is retained as a landscape amenity containing walking tracks.
The building steps up the slope to create two interlocking sections, with wide eaves providing shelter and creating a strong horizontal line. This is balanced by verticals created by timber cladding and fenestration. The façade is further modulated with balconies and timber screens for outdoor living with privacy.
Following successful completion of the 790 Beach Road Apartments, we have completed two further stages of site development at Aria Bay.
ARIA BAY 792 BEACH ROAD
The first of these is located at 792 Beach Road and comprises two independent living apartment buildings, linked at basement level with shared carparking.
Apartment Building A contains 11 apartments over 3 living levels, Apartment Building B contains 14 apartments over 4 living levels. The proposed development includes a ground level village community centre within Apartment Building B, opening onto a communal courtyard space.
These two buildings, together with the adjacent independent apartment buildings, will develop as a strong community. To facilitate this, a community centre has been located alongside the shared courtyard. This is a multi-purpose space, with catering facilities, which can be used for a variety of events.
This is the latest stage of the Aria Bay Retirement Village, which provides a main entrance and focal point to the Village, with community café, dining, and entertainment facilities located around three north-facing courtyards.
ARIA BAY APARTMENTS AND CARE
Accommodation includes a care home with 60 units, including a specialist dementia care unit and secure courtyard in a four-storey block to the west of the site. To the east, in two linked five storey blocks with views overlooking the coast, are 52 serviced and independent living apartments. Apartments are designed to suit a variety of residents, and range in size from 1-bedroom units of 55m2 to 3-bedroom units of 115m2.
The project contained complex Resource Consent issues, we were significantly involved in successfully negotiating the design through a Public Hearing process. Stage 1 of the project – the care home - is under construction with completion due in 2021; which will be followed directly with construction of the apartments.
Tamahere Country Club is a Lifestyle Retirement Village situated at Tamahere, near Hamilton
TAMAHERE COUNTRY CLUB – APARTMENTS AND CARE
Location
Tamahere, Hamilton
Status
In progress
The Country Club offers quality architecturally designed villas and lush landscaping within a community environment.
Facilities on-site include a clubhouse with an indoor cinema, billiards room and library. Other onsite recreational activities include a golf driving range, bowling green and a health spa.
The new two-story 7,000m2 care facility will comprise 80 care suites, sun lounges, public and private dining rooms, indoor gardens, and lounge areas. It will also feature a music, arts and craft room, gym, and a cinema.
The architecture is sympathetic to the village vernacular and designed to tie in with the existing clubhouse and spa adjacent to the proposed new building.
Situated over a man-made lake within the development, the 582m2 Tamahere Country Club Lakehouse will provide residents with a unique setting for shared social activities.
TAMAHERE COUNTRY CLUB – LAKE HOUSE
Facilities include a hall seating up to 100, amphitheater, kitchen, bar facilities opening out to the deck space, six indoor table tennis tables, three indoor bowls lanes and a dance studio with timber floor. An adjoining pavilion structure provides an open-air space for BBQs, yoga and other activities.
The contemporary design of the structure ties in with the surrounding buildings; exterior materiality is similar throughout, with long run metal roofs, Hinuera stone veneer
cladding and vertical timber cedar cladding on cavity walls.
The engineered superstructure consists of series of steel portal frames, with timber walls. Aluminum joinery is used throughout, and a large operable wall between the hall and amphitheater spaces can be opened up to join the two areas, creating a flexible space.
Ropata Lodge is designed as a comprehensive independent living residential development that includes 15 one-bedroom units, 29 two-bedroom units, and four three-bedroom units.
ROPATA LODGE
A range of facilities include; a café, pool, gym, activity room lounge, car and electric scooter parking areas.
The development is focused around a large, central outdoor area with a retained pond and vegetation area, designed to provide shared community areas that are conducive to social activities and relaxation.
The intention is to create a safe, communal village, that promotes social connectedness and inclusion, without urban barriers that isolate
residents from their neighbourhood or the broader community.
Ropata Lodge’s design provides linkages that enable an integrated network of social spaces within the context of the site, while also connecting to the wider neighbourhood via the street facing café for residents and their guests. The connectedness of the development helps to integrate lifestyle and care choices to give residents options for social contact within spaces that are activated and safe.
Located in the outer Wellington suburb of Crofton Downs, this high-quality residential aged care complex containing independent apartments and care suites was opened in mid-2022.
CROFTON DOWNS APARTMENTS AND CARE
The 16,670m2 development contains 82 residential apartments and 49 care rooms/suites over four living levels. Support facilities include dining, lounge and activity areas including a swimming pool and gym, as well as associated service, administration and ancillary areas.
The building is organised into three wings, running roughly east from the road boundary to the gorge, linked north-south, with landscaped courtyards in-between. The wings are non-parallel, splayed to respond
to the site boundaries, allowing courtyard dwellings greater access to light and views.
The building has been developed to emphasise the domestic residential nature of use rather than an institutional form. This is done for the benefit of the residents and is also an appropriate built form for the location adjacent to the residential areas of Crofton Downs.
Built on the edge of suburban Meeanee, Napier, Bupa Willowbank is a 4800m² aged care facility providing 16 serviced apartments and 56 care facility units plus a village community centre on single storey surrounded by villas to merge a range of facilities on a single site.
BUPA WILLOWBANK
Location
The community centre provides a hub for activities such as a gym, library, hair saloon and billiards room for the surrounding villas but is easily accessed by both the care home and serviced apartment occupants through the central foyer.
This project construction was separated into two stages with the community centre hand over occurring prior to the serviced apartments and care home construction
beginning. This required careful planning of services and temporary works to allow safe occupation of the community centre during construction of the second stage.
The design concept of Waimea Plains village offers a different approach to retirement living, focusing on place making, social interaction, solar access and natural landscape environment, and providing an outward looking, inclusive and permeable layout to create connections and integrate into the wider community.
BETHLEHEM SHORES
Arvida Bethlehem Shores is a coastal lifestyle village, elevated overlooking the inner Te Awanui Tauranga Harbour. The masterplan for this development includes:
• 237 architecturally designed stand-alone homes
• A new Care and Apartment building with 52 luxury apartments and a 60-bed care and dementia facility
The Care and Apartment building will include amenities such as a café, lounge bar, whanau rooms, hair salon and flexi/craft rooms. The care rooms will be arranged into six households of 10 rooms,
each with their own common kitchen and lounge. The ground level dementia households will each have access to a private secure garden, while a third courtyard garden is set aside for care residents.
The building has been designed to integrate with the existing development and landscape, place an emphasis on modern lifestyle coastal living, and support the Arvida Living Well Community for independent living.
The design concept of Waimea Plains village offers a different approach to retirement living, focusing on place making, social interaction, solar access and natural landscape environment, and providing an outward looking, inclusive and permeable layout to create connections and integrate into the wider community.
WAIMEA PLAINS VILLAGE RESIDENTIAL HOUSING
The development comprises 160 villa and townhouse units, 26 Apartments, over 45 care rooms, and shared communal facilities arranged across 6 precincts which vary in use, materiality and scale.
The largest site area of the Retirement Village is devoted to individual single-storey residential villas in a mix of three bed, two bed and 1.5 bed units. Conceptually, these villas are organised in a series of ‘clusters’ - numbering from four to eight villas, grouped around
a courtyard with vehicle access, fanning a series of cul-de-sac neighbourhoods. Spaces between ‘clusters’ are communal ‘green’ space, onto which each villa can open out or overlook, used for amenity, circulation, recreational and social activities.
The overlapping groupings of the ‘courtyard neighbourhood’ and the ‘green neighbourhood’ is expected to create a strong social network around the site which will be a positive feature of the Village.
The Aria Park Apartment and Care building, located in Auckland’s Epsom, offers a blend of luxury living and comprehensive care options.
ARIA PARK
Located in the Auckland suburb of Epsom, the Aria Park Apartment and Care building will provide luxury apartment and care options which allow residents to live independently, and access higher level care facilities within the Aria Park village as needed.
Arranged across four storeys, the building consists of:
• 10 dementia care rooms and suites at ground level with secure garden
• 39 care rooms and suites
• 21 care apartments
• communal lounge and dining areas
• administration and support facilities.
Located in the heart of Auckland’s central suburbs, Arvida’s Mt Eden Gardens development will provide a high-end apartment lifestyle in a premium location.
MT EDEN GARDENS
The building comprises a basement and three upper levels, that provides 62 one-, two- and threebedroom ‘Living Well’ apartments, and common amenities (including café, lounge and activities areas, swimming pool and gym).
Presentation to both street frontages has been carefully considered to provide a high level of façade articulation and generous building separations, while still maximising the site yield. Floor to ceiling glazing and generous balconies maximise daylight/ sunlight access and views to provide high quality residential amenity.
The architectural intent has been to create an iconic contemporary architectural form that is respectful of the Mt Eden environs with a sense of familiarity to the local community. The Special Character Overlay control for the 4,417 m² site has had a driving influence on the architecture and materiality of the building, with an Art Deco influence permeating the design.
The Village Palms is a 5,300m2 facility providing 34 assisted care facility apartments at ground floor and 62 care facility units above, all with en-suite and kitchen facilities.
THE VILLAGE PALMS
Location
Completed
Each floor provides communal dining and lounge facilities with commercial kitchen and laundry at the ground floor. Additional facilities for the tenants include reading lounge, additional laundry and hair salon.
The project is in a residential area, requiring resource consent, and consideration of surrounding residential dwellings. The design presents a high-quality residential feel and scale. The success of this approach meant that the design, which was subject to limited notification, did not receive a single objection and avoided the need for a hearing.
This project required an early start on site, which has been achieved with a separate earthworks and sub-structure Building Consent package which progressed in advance of the superstructure works. In addition, the design pioneers the use of prefabricated bathrooms, constructed off-site, to achieve time and quality benefits.
Located on Auckland’s North Shore, this development in Long Bay has been planned to provide care options for Auckland’s Asian community.
LONG BAY VILLAGE
Architectural and landscape components draw heavily from Asian design forms, while private and shared spaces have been designed to accommodate ways of living familiar to these communities.
The development consists of:
• 30 care units
• 87 one and two-bedroom apartments
• 17 two and three-story villas
• 41 two-storey townhouses
Communal facilities include lounges, dining areas, medical rooms and recreational facilities such as a cinema room, gym, spa and pool. Communal spaces and amenities are distributed across the site to facilitate access to such spaces for all residents, enhance visibility and provide visual amenity.
