| 89 DEVELOPMENT Dwell Residential At Master Foundations, our primary goal is to provide cost-effective solutions while maintaining high-quality standards. With over a decade of experience in the Christchurch area, we have encountered a wide range of projects, from standard TC1 to Multilevel TC3 foundations with our speciality being in Rib Raft (Waffle) foundations. Contact us today for a free Quotation. www.masterfoundations.co.nz 021 222 0952 mark@masterfoundations.co.nz PLUMBING & Reliable. Professional. From new builds to renovations and repairs, we deliver quality plumbing and gas services you can trust. PLUMBING Repairs, maintenance & installations RENOVATIONS Kitchens, bathrooms & more MAINTENANCE Preventative care you can rely on GAS FITTING Safe, certified gas installations 027 388 2289 Flame & Flow Plumbing and Gas Ltd Flowing Solutions. Lasting Trust. 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Marcus Stott, the sole director of Dwell Residential, has been in the construction industry since leaving school, and worked for a house relocation company for 11 years, including the post-earthquake years. He gained his LBP (Licensed Building Practitioner) certificate on the way and began working for himself on the weekends, eventually taking on his first ‘as is where is’ property. “Obviously I had experience re-levelling through moving the houses, so I could do most of it myself, and eventually I left my job and went full-time into property, both ‘as is where is’ and new builds, which are my passion,” Marcus says. That was six years ago, and his first multi-residential development soon followed. Investing in architectural design is central to each of Dwell Residential’s developments, and has been since his first two, two-storey, standalone townhouses were built in Addington, he says. “I used a high-end architect, who wouldn’t normally do multi-residential but he liked my vision. It wasn’t cheap but it was worth it. They look good and they’ll last.” Dwell Residential purposefully distances itself from more generic, mass-produced developments, and Derby Terraces’ five townhouses, now under construction, are a prime example of how Marcus brings his beliefs and values into the dwellings he develops. “The idea is that you get a boutique site, and you design specifically for it, rather than finding a site you know will work for the spreadsheet to make more of the same thing. I’ll take unusual sites because I think they have character and can add to the development,” he says. Marcus’s approach is to use design to enhance the character of whichever boutique site he’s working with. He bought the land for the recently completed, single-level development in Centaurus Road, knowing that he would incorporate the big, beautiful, (unprotected) willow tree into the development, which he fittingly called ‘Willows’. All six of the two- or three-bedroom dwellings sold prior to completion to owner-occupiers. The site for Derby Terraces on Springfield Road had been empty for years since it had been bought and cleared after the earthquakes. It’s a prime location, and Marcus had his eye on it for a long time before finally acquiring it. He had always wanted to do a terraced development on the corner site, complete with garaging for what remains a car-oriented city. The typology of five, three-storey townhouses for the site was only the beginning of his typically strong brief, he says. “The main thing was keeping the square metres high and keeping the form to six metres. Townhouses are generally three to four metres wide, but six makes them feel like a full-sized house, which was our focus. We want people to be in the main living area on the middle floor and it not feel like a townhouse.” At 192sqm, future-proofed with a built-in private lift, and with the comfortable modern living that comes with a highly-spec’d, fully bespoke interior, individually designed by another high-end architect, these five townhouses offer central-city living with low-maintenance, lock-and-leave convenience. Available for purchase and under construction with one unit already under contract, Derby Terraces are expected to be completed by April 2027, adding another development to an already impressive portfolio. “I’ve lived in Christchurch all my life and I feel a responsibility,” Marcus says. “I want to drive past the things that I’ve built, which last a long time, and show my kids and be proud of it, not duck for cover because it looks like a slum.” Driving around Christchurch today, seeing the quality of Dwell Residential’s architecturally designed developments, it’s clear Marcus has nothing to fear on that score.
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