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Auckland architect Pete Bossley’s own home renovation has caught the eye of his peers – the project has been awarded a Housing – Alterations and Additions Award in this year’s NZIA Auckland Architecture Awards.

Bossley, who shares the home with his partner, artist Miriam van Wezel, describes the project as “a story of loving iterations designed to accommodate expanding and contracting family and guests”.

He says it’s a place that has been constantly developing over 20 years, without ever having an “end-game” in sight. “It has gone from three bedrooms to four, back to three bedrooms and workspace, and could well revert to four bedrooms if required.”

Fife House, architect Pete Bossley's own home that he shares with partner Miriam van Wezel, has received a Housing - Alterations and Additions award in the NZIA Auckland Architecture Awards.

SAM HARTNETT

Fife House, architect Pete Bossley’s own home that he shares with partner Miriam van Wezel, has received a Housing – Alterations and Additions award in the NZIA Auckland Architecture Awards.

The NZIA jury praised the “array of ‘adjustments’ played out across the original house over many years”.

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“Everywhere are moments of thoughtful consideration and experimentation, but also accumulation, that allow the house to echo deeply the shifting nature of its owners’ lived collaboration.

The project has also won a Resene Colour Award.

SAM HARTNETT

The project has also won a Resene Colour Award.

The jury said the house was “rich in idiosyncratic envelope shifts, mobile elements, unexpected interconnections, and an affable reworking of front, back and side yards” and offers ”an utterly compelling vision of place-remaking”.

‘Not about photo-ready tidiness’

Bossley has also admitted the house is not about “photo-ready tidiness”. “It is about living in comfort with architectural delights: the central bathroom with a view through to the garden, the way early morning shadows glance across the ply and GRC fire surround, the informally hung artworks, the wavy handrail up the irregular entry steps……”

The architect says the house is constantly changing with no “end-game” in sight.

SAM HARTNETT

The architect says the house is constantly changing with no “end-game” in sight.

Colour plays a strong role, assuring the project also received a Resene Colour Award, with the Resene judges saying: “Colour is a medium that skilfully underscores the complex spatiality deployed by both the architect and artist occupants of this wonderful house alteration.

“Orange, green, red, blue – everywhere they splendidly interact to nuance and intensify the daily patterns of life played out here.”

Bossley says the new extensions are designed as “floating planes of colour, clad in fibre-cement sheet with exposed fixings, to identify new elements from earlier iterations”.

“Internally, silver beech plywood and GRC (glass fibre-reinforced concrete) have been used to create streams of identity flowing through the existing spaces.”

The interior is flooded with light and colour.

SAM HARTNETT

The interior is flooded with light and colour.

Bossley says there has been no desire to make the rooms consistent. Different skirting details, for example, suggest different periods of construction.

SAM HARNETT

Bossley says there has been no desire to make the rooms consistent. Different skirting details, for example, suggest different periods of construction.

The living room flows out to the elevated deck.

SAM HARTNETT

The living room flows out to the elevated deck.

The ground-floor studio also has a strong connection with the outdoors.

SAM HARTNETT

The ground-floor studio also has a strong connection with the outdoors.

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