Multi-Unit Residential / Fire Engineering/ Passive Fire Design

Residential Development, Mt. Albert Road

The brief was to design a medium-sized industrial building sited on the prominent Great South Road corner that also showcases all the latest APL window solutions in the showroom.
Project Snapshot
Year Completed: 2019
Location: Confidential as advised.
Professional Service/s: Resource Consent, Building Consent, Fire Engineering, Passive Fire Design.
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Overview

The project began in 2019 as THE DESIGNFIRE was engaged in providing full architectural documentation packages for the new residential development for the site.

Solution

We designed a set of two duplex houses in the Mt Albert area. The site is a corner site bound by two arterial roads which presented some traffic issues to consider. As there were no parking available on the street, a double garage for each unit has been proposed. Each unit has four bedrooms, three bathrooms and a large roof balcony.

THE DESIGNFIRE was engaged by our client to proceed with consenting documentation based on the concept design.

In Detail

The construction is to be precast concrete panel inter-tenancy walls with timber-framed interior walls. The upper floors will be timber floors and a concrete slab foundation.

The design solution was to provide feature mid-level façade with a recess opening feature. Also with the larger overhang roofing at the top with set back that forms the rooftop gardens. Aesthetically, this effectively reduced visual volumes of the scale at the frontage. At the same time, the layout remains functional and provides a high-quality spatial experience, especially at the top level where the master bedroom is located.

YOUR DESIGN DELIVERED-PROCESS SIMPLIFIED.

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I have worked with THE DESIGNFIRE on a few projects and they have been a pleasure to work with.
They always respond very quickly to any queries I have and deliver plans and drawings in a timely manner. They’ve just completed the concepts and Resource Consent plans for a set of 2 Duplex units on a difficult corner site with two arterial roads. My requests were well-considered and they worked very well with my planner to deliver a design that meets my brief and maximizes the sites’ potential by pushing the limits of the Planning regulations but is still acceptable by the Council’s planners. I have other on-going projects with them and would highly recommend them to anyone else requiring architectural services.
Paul Singh
Eurocon
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