[ NEW HOUSE ]
This personal project on a steep site in Auckland's Eastern Bays, is a new home for my parents. A true labour of love, the home has been under construction for a number of years.
Because good things take time.
The house takes its form from an element constituting both roof and wall planes, which folds its way down the slope, linking each level of the home. The folding form contains and encloses spaces both internally and externally.
Handcrafted in every way, this home explores what’s possible on a limited budget, and a challenging site, but armed with passion, patience, and a lot of hard work.
Awards & Publication:
Nominated ArchDaily 2024 Building of the Year www.archdaily.com
Winner of a 2023 NZIA Auckland Architecture Award - Housing www.nzia.co.nz
Finalist in the 2023 Best Awards - Spatial / Residential category
Published The Local Project Oct 2024 thelocalproject.com.au
Published Home Magazine Oct/Nov 2023 homemagazine.nz/angle-grinder/
Published ArchDaily Dec 2023 www.archdaily.com
Published Grand Designs Magazine May 2024 granddesignsmagazine.com
Winner of the 2017 TIDA Architect Designed Bathroom Suite of the Year Award
Finalist in the 2012 Cavalier Bremworth AAA Unbuilt Architecture Awards - Work in Progress
Design & documentation: 2 years
Construction: 9 years 😳
Floor area: 185 sqm
Photos: Simon Devitt
2023 NZIA jury citation:
“Inspired by a corrugated iron sculpture twisting down a hill, this unique home is a series of moments hand crafted by the architect and his parent-clients over the course of nine years. Located on a steep south-facing section the landscape shelters the house from north-easterly winds, including a protected mid-floor terrace. This family odyssey delivers a delightful journey defined by inward and outward views offering visual relief to a sequence of stepped living platforms. This project is an innovative and uniquely detailed solution for comfortable living, despite the difficult suburban site.”
[ NEW HOUSE ]
A new home in suburban Meadowbank, Auckland, taking advantage of the elevated gentle promontory on which the house resides.
The form and detailing of the upper level explores the notion of 'shroud' in which to contain and protect, while at the same time directing internal vistas towards the North-West and Cityscape.
The home maximises and utilises internal space, and challenges the notion of bigger is better. We believe in quality over quantity, and the spatial configuration and utilisation within this home questions and eliminates unnecessary area where possible, to deliver a family home apparently bigger than the sum of its parts.
Awards & Publication:
Shortlisted for a 2020 NZIA Auckland architecture award.
Finalist in the 2020 Best Awards - Spatial / Residential category.
Design & documentation: 14 months
Construction: 10 months
Floor area: 220 sqm
“From the beginning Mark was excited and enthusiastic about our project. He worked professionally and collaboratively with us through the architectural design process, closely listening to our brief and taking the time to get to know us. Mark’s innovative solutions enabled us to maximise the site’s potential. His choice of materials, attention to detail and the crafted nature of his design make it an aesthetically interesting house. He designed a home with dynamic and fun spaces that will meet the needs of our family for years to come. “
Dale & Rob - Client
[ ALTERATION / ADDITION ]
A contemporary street-fronting addition to an existing family home, encompassing a translucently clad yoga studio / garage, and bedrooms off a new entry, concealed behind integrated hidden doors.
The design works with contrasting and complementary materials and forms to relate and co-exist alongside the existing plastered brick ex-state house.
Awards & Publication:
Shortlisted for a 2018 NZIA Auckland architecture award.
Published Home Magazine Feb/March 2019 https://homemagazine.nz/fibreglass-extension/
Design & documentation: 11 months
Construction: 10 months
Floor area: 65 sqm
[ ALTERATION / ADDITION ]
A rear addition and internal reconfiguration of a traditional timber weatherboard Bungalow on a small site.
The heavyweight brick clad massing of the annex addition contradicts the stereotypical lightweight lean-to add-ons commonly found on older character homes, and creates a contemporary private sunken living space opening to a contained outdoor semi-courtyard.
The interior of the home has been reconfigured to create a generous open plan living space; three bedrooms; and ancillary spaces within a compact building footprint.
Design & documentation: 11 months
Construction: 8 months
Floor area: 115 sqm
Photos: Hamish Melville
[ ALTERATION / ADDITION ]
A new sleepout on Waiheke, at the point of entry to the site, and defining a new entry gateway and approach to the existing historic bach lower down the property.
The overall external form, clad in thermally modified NZ Radiata of varying profiles, will weather gracefully, and cocoon the underlying black steel skin enclosure.
Awards & Publication:
Winner of the 2021 Here Awards - Small Projects Category https://www.thisishere.nz/awards
Finalist in the 2022 Best Awards - Spatial Category
Design & documentation: 7 months
Construction: 8 months
Floor area: 50 sqm
Photos 1-4 : Simon Devitt
[ ALTERATION / ADDITION ]
A contemporary addition to the rear of a 50's family home in suburban Auckland.
The main angular roof of the addition visually 'peels' away from the other forms in a deconstructive sense, while wall and ceiling plains are generated in response to maximising direct and indirect sunlight deep into the new internal living spaces.
Design & documentation: 14 months
Construction: 8 months
Floor area: 56 sqm
“When looking for an architect for work on our house we found that Mark Frazerhurst had previously designed two separate renovations in our street. We liked the end result in both homes, and the owners gave very good references for Mark, in particular saying that he was very easy to deal with. Once underway Mark asked us for a brief. We left nothing out and were pleasantly surprised when Mark managed to meet all our needs in the first concept. When we chose to make some major changes to the project due to cost, Mark took this in his stride and delivered a second wonderful design. The build process was easy with Mark alongside to manage the technical details that crop up when working on an older house. Our builder complemented Mark on the quality of his drawings which made some of the more technical details easy to understand.”
David & Karen - Client
[ NEW HOUSE ]
A new family home on a small suburban site in Auckland.
Infill housing on smaller and subdivided sections is becoming more and more commonplace as our city densifies. Whether you like it or not, we’re in a period of intensification, and it’s likely at some point everyone will be impacted by this new building typology - whether it’s your immediate neighbour building along your common boundary, or a developer creating a series of terraced units in place of a single dwelling - we’re all affected in some way.
We’re very proud of the approach we take to these smaller infill, and residential densification projects, which occupy pieces of land within the urban landscape that are secondary to primary development. Every challenging or ‘left-over’ site is an opportunity to create something special. That challenge begins by not detracting from the existing urban fabric, and not occupying land for the sake of maximising floor area. Bigger isn’t necessarily better, and someone’s advantage doesn’t need to be at the disadvantage of others.
This small home in suburban Auckland is bigger than the sum of its parts; respects it’s environment; and will provide a contemporary and considered crafted family home for years to come.
Design & documentation: underway
Construction: beginning soon
Floor area: 190 sqm
[ NEW HOUSE ]
This new family home overlooking Lake Taupo encompasses the owner’s love of outdoor pursuits through the treatment of space and materials, and relates to the wider site context and extensive views of the lake.
Our office’s first new home project. 👍
Awards & Publication:
Winner of a 2010 NZIA Waikato BOP Architecture Award www.nzia.co.nz
Published Houses Magazine March 2012 architecturenow.co.nz
Published ArchDaily Aug 2013 www.archdaily.com
Design & documentation: 7 months
Construction: 9 months
Floor area: 215 sqm
[ ALTERATION / ADDITION ]
A double level rear addition to an existing modernist home on a sloping suburban site, overlooking a park.
The design picks up on the rectilinear forms and materiality of the existing house, as well as the topography of the site, outlook, and internal spatial programme, to create a complimentary but contrasting contemporary timber extension.
Design & documentation: 16 months
Construction: 12 months
Floor area: 85 sqm
[ ALTERATION / ADDITION ]
An extensive addition and alteration to an existing family home in Mt Eden.
The external character of the existing Transitional Villa has been restored to it’s original form, and a new wrap-around contemporary black addition added to the rear, in a contrasting but complementary aesthetic.
Design & documentation: 22 months
Construction: 18 months
Floor area: 46 sqm
[ NEW HOUSE ]
A new house on a semi-rural steeply sloping site, set among mature native trees in the Auckland seaside suburb of Maraetai.
This family home has been designed to reflect and relate to the topography of the site, and encompass the outlook, orientation, and elevated context of the location.
The oddly shaped section and contour presented challenges which defined the building envelope to some degree, but at the same time created an interesting footprint and three dimensional form.
Design & documentation: 10 months
Construction: underway
Floor area: 205 sqm
[ NEW HOUSE ]
A new family home on a large rural site north of Auckland.
The sculptural form of the building changes on approach to the home, much like the changing vistas of the valleys and ridge lines moving through the landscape surrounding the site.
The house explodes separate but interconnected zones within the home, by stretching the floor plan along an axis running adjacent to, and parallel with a now disused airstrip - much like the buildings and hangers aligning an airfield.
Design & documentation: 8 months
Construction: beginning soon
Floor area: 280 sqm (+ 165 sqm Accessory Building)
[ NEW HOUSE ]
We don’t shy away from a challenge.
A steep Waiheke Island site densely covered in native bush required a sensitive approach in the conception of this new home. A combination of sympathetic materials and construction techniques resulted in the design of a home suited to its stunning environmental context.
Currently in the planning stages.
[ ALTERATION / ADDITION ]
The brief for this project stemmed from the requirement for additional space for the family of five. The kids were getting bigger and needed their own independent spaces to entertain and enjoy.
We designed an extension of the existing 1950's home to utilise the Southern corner of the site, creating an overall 'U' shaped house plan with the addition focussed back towards the existing house; the North-West aspect; and the enclosed and private courtyard-type space created.
The roof forms of the addition relate to the existing gabled roof pitches of the existing home, and utilise the roof space completely for a mezzanine home office and plentiful storage. A flat roofed link between old and new separates the forms, and evokes an anti lean-to of sorts.
Materials were selected to complement and contrast with the existing home: painted timber board and batten grid; vertical stained timber shiplap; and the consolidated use of ply adding a rich underlying timber palette to the existing home.
Plentiful glazing and doors allow seamless physical and visual connections from inside to out.
Design & documentation: 12 months
Construction: nearly complete
Floor area: XXX sqm
[ ALTERATION / ADDITION ]
As the story goes, the original owners of this historic home used to tether their horses under the house at night. Eighty odd years later, we’ve added an enclosed ‘stable’ as a gabled annex to complement the existing form.
Extensive alterations to the interior of the home also provided an opportunity to rework the fenestration of the northern elevation, and introduce a ‘black eye’ bank of canopied windows to an upper level bedroom, to tie in the heavyweight black garage.
Internally, the home has been extensively reworked and upgraded to introduce light, space, and altered connections within. A new pool and spa integrate into the new external works to transform this home into a cohesive whole.
Design & documentation: 17 months
Construction: 16 months (2 stage)
Floor area: 80 sqm
Photos: MFA
“We engaged Mark Frazerhurst Architects to help us realise the potential of our 1920s Remuera home. Mark listened to us when we said it would be a staged renovation. He designed a plan that could be tackled in parts and by the end created a unified whole. His scheme addressed everything from a new driveway layout, external entrance and pool complex to a modern garage, laundry, new master suite and reimagined stairwell that modernised our family home. We loved the traditional features of our home but Mark enhanced it with a modern edge that we love even more. His design is integral to our enduring enjoyment of our property.
Mark is a complete professional who produces excellent work and is a pleasure to collaborate with. Our property has been transformed with minimal stress and we often comment about his great sense of space, even our walk in wardrobe is the perfect size.
We look forward to working with Mark and Kate in the future.”
Priscilla & Gerard - Client
[ ALTERATION / ADDITION ]
A work-in-progress progressive addition to an existing suburban home.
We approached the design of this addition as a continuum of the existing house fabric and spatial configuration, by retaining and stitching a contemporary extension into the front of the home.
Design & documentation: 10 months
Construction: Beginning soon
Floor area: 90 sqm
[ INTERIOR / FIT OUT ]
The fantastic team at KCore Pilates entrusted us to design the fit out of their second reformer pilates studio, in the B Hive building at Smales Farm on Auckland’s North Shore.
The brief called for a highly functional space with a high end feel, where class goers could work-out and feel connected to the exterior, without being on display.
We responded with a black, white, & brass aesthetic, with tactile and textured surfaces and materials, spatially composed around delineated forms, circulation routes, and visual sight lines.
A space for a hard work-out on the body, while going easy on the senses.
Awards and Publication:
Silver Pin at the 2020 Best Awards - Spatial / Health & Wellbeing category
Finalist in the 2020 Interior Awards - Healthcare & Wellness category
Design & documentation: 3 months
Construction: 2 months
Floor area: 195 sqm
[ INTERIOR / FIT OUT ]
Located in the historic Hayes Metal Refineries precinct, we sought to create an interior space leaning heavily on the original character of the iconic building, but utilising a contemporary, sophisticated, and tactile palette, for this design studio.
A plentiful amount of timber (Walnut panelling; solid White Oak & plywood furniture; Abodo linings) is balanced with honed & rough cast concrete, and textured plaster, creating a small but refined interior for a small team.
Our scope of work included design, fabrication, fit-out and installation.
We’re chuffed with the result 😁
Awards & Publication:
Finalist in the 2024 Interior Awards - Workplace up to 1000sqm
Bronze Award at the 2024 Best Awards - Spatial / Workplace Environments up to 200 sqm category
Design, Documentation & Construction: 12 months
Floor area: 30 sqm
Photos: Simon Devitt
[ NEW CABINS ]
A work-in-progress design for visitor accommodation units on a rural site north of Auckland, as part of a broader development of the overall site.
Rural outbuildings have a beautiful and identifiable vernacular, however are often sited solely from a completely functional perspective, without any specific relationship to other buildings or context.
We’ve drawn on aspects of the rural building typology, and crafted a triptych of cabins with a form, character, and materiality stemming from other existing buildings in the area. The proximity and orientation of each cabin to the next is functionally and aesthetically considered, to maximise privacy and outlook, while composing a formally recognised relationship between all three.
Design & documentation: in progress
Construction: -
Floor area: 3 @ 45 sqm
[ ALTERATION / ADDITION ]
This extensive self-contained Auckland House addition connects with the existing dwelling both visually and physically by relating to the materials and forms of the existing home, but uses these in different ways to reflect a contemporary design aesthetic.
[ INTERIORS ]
We love to dabble in furniture, objects, and sculpture, and consider a wholistic design response to any project is paramount, to maintain consistency of approach at all scales experienced.
We’ve been lucky enough to work with some fantastic private and commercial clients to create innovative fit outs & furniture for their headquarters, studios, meeting spaces, and homes.
We also construct and fabricate items ourselves where possible 🔨
All items are available to purchase - please get in touch if you’re interested!
[ EXTERIORS ]
A successful project starts with a holistic approach to design, and carries elements, details, materials, and ideas throughout a complete composition.
We design pools, landscapes, and exterior structure as an extension of interior space, with interest, contextual reference, and a hand crafted tactile nature.
