| 87 ARCHITECTURE Cullen Keiser Architecture Kelly Deeks Award-winning home a showstopper The Cambridge home won the Residential New Home over 300sqm award at the 2022 Bay of Plenty and Waikato Regional ADNZ Resene Architectural Design Awards. With careful positioning and clever design, Daniel Cullen of Cullen Keiser Architecture has pulled every piece of potential out of a magic site and created another award winning design on Maungakawa Road in Cambridge. Daniel’s project ‘Amongst the Gully’ won the Residential New Home over 300sqm award at the 2022 Bay of Plenty and Waikato Regional ADNZ Resene Architectural Design Awards. This project has been a real labour of love, with Cullen Keiser Architecture starting sketching in 2013, and consent being issued the following year. Ben Shaw Building had the home framed up and closed in within about 12 months, then the owners Oscar and Helen Schepers took over to finish their home, continuing a collaborative relationship with Daniel for advice and recommendations, and even with Ben who gave them the odd hand while he was building another award-wining Cullen Keiser home right next door. Daniel knew his design had potential for the ADNZ awards. “It took a few years to complete,” Daniel says. “I kept touching base to see whether they’d finished, and it wasn’t until I entered the house next door into the 2021 awards that they finally had. Oscar and Helen walked me through and I was blown away. I knew I had to get it into the awards.” Located on a steep but amazing site, the north side of this home faces native bush, the east and south sides face a hill, and the west faces beautiful and very expansive views out to the Waikato Plains and farmlands. Cullen Keiser Architecture has managed to maximise solar gain and showcase the amazing views of the surrounding native bush and farmland with both the master bedroom and the living areas cantilevering over the gully. The home comprises two and a half levels, with an entrance, garage and also a bedroom on the ground floor which dips down into a 3.6m high open plan kitchen, lounge, and dining area. On the first floor are the sleeping quarters, with a bedroom, ensuite and walk in wardrobe on both the north and south sides, each with their own deck. “One of the highlights is the living area,” Daniel says. “The 3.6m ceiling and full height glazing actually swallows you into the gully.” The cantilever on the north side serves to shade the home in the summer and let in warmth and light in the winter, while a 2.5m roof overhang on the west side of the lounge eliminates sun blindness from the setting sun. The influence of Daniel’s former employer Neil Keiser, who had mentored Daniel for eight to nine years, can be seen in the natural materials used, with the exterior rough sawn ply and masonry block and interior plywood, and also in the butterfly lean-to roofs. Daniel is as stoked as Oscar and Helen to have won the regional ADNZ award. “This is their dream home. They have poured their life savings into it and it’s quite intimidating to have to hand it over to an architect and a builder to get the result you want. “They should be proud of it, and I’m very proud of it as well. “I’m proud to be featured amongst the other entrants in the competition, and the fact this project is still relevant when we started it almost a decade ago.” “One of the highlights is the living area. The 3.6m ceiling and full height glazing actually swallows you into the gully.” • Transport Engineering • Light Structural Engineering • General Engineering Proudly supporting Ben Shaw Building 027 439 2767 www.cspengineering.co.nz cspengineering@outlook.com CONTRACTING Earthworks - Drainage - Siteworks - House pads General Contracting PAUL GARLAND M: 0274 962 399 Landline: 07 827 6482 26 Maungatautari Road RD3, Cambridge 3495 Email: tintagel1@xtra.co.nz
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