Bassett Road

Bassett Road
© Emma-Jane Hetherington

BASSETT ROAD

BOX Living

ARCHITECTS
BOX Living

LOCATION
Auckland, New Zealand

CATEGORY
Houses

TEAM
Box Living

AREA
160.0 sqm

PROJECT YEAR
2013

PHOTOGRAPHS
Emma-Jane Hetherington

Text description provided by architect.

At the bottom of a sheer slope, in a sunny enclave sits this 4 bedroom family home.

This modernist post & beam construction was designed and built by BOX Living, a New Zealand company of architects and builders who specialise in modular design & build.

Bassett Road
© Emma-Jane Hetherington
Bassett Road
© Emma-Jane Hetherington

The post & beam forms the exoskeleton of this rectilinear structure.

The frame is then infilled with double glazed joinery or wall panels, clad in rusticated cedar and stained dark.

The cantilevered top section provides shade for an external terrace below which leads out to the pool and flat lawn.

Bassett Road
© Emma-Jane Hetherington
Bassett Road
© Emma-Jane Hetherington

BOX prefers to use engineered timber rather than steel in its constructions, and this lightweight system is particularly suited to New Zealands sloping lands and seismic zones.

Bassett Road
Bassett Road
© Emma-Jane Hetherington