Residing atop Richmond Hill, this energy efficient home takes full advantage of the northern sun and views over Sumners coastline. Creating a warm and comforting environment nestled into the hill face.
Wall House has been featured on Archdaily.
"This residential home resides atop Mt Pleasant in Christchurch, New Zealand overlooking the natural landscape of the mountain and the waters of the Estuary. Designed to the landscape and surrounding environment, the building’s form stands honestly with purpose." ...
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Shell Chapel (the people's choice winner), designed by Ting Lin.
Social housing in India, a Victorian heritage building in Wellington, and energy-efficient homes in Christchurch all feature in the diverse portfolio of architect Massimiliano Capocaccia. But regardless of their location, scale, or function, all Max’s projects reflect his interest in how architecture can make us feel.
“I think too often people forget about our emotional response to the built environment. When I taught at Christchurch Polytech I was stressing this to my students all the time. Architecture is not just about material function, it is also about emotional function. It is one of the most difficult elements to address, but also one of the most important.”
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I often hear of people acting in designing mode, or he/she is having a day in production mode; and I don’t like it.
It seems that more and more people are simplifying their behaviour into a pattern that is recognizable of a computer. It appears that we are simplifying the complexity of ‘us’ and converting it, or reducing it into a binary language.
I see this happening in architecture. People want modern houses, character homes, minimalistic, eclectic, energy efficient, classic and so on.
It doesn’t feel right for me to simplify and summarize the complexity of the built environment into categories, the design into disciplines, our living into behavioural mode.
Look at the cities around the world that make us feel good, these are the ones where human functions are not segregated into patronized activities, these are the one where you don’t perceive the clash between the external envelope of the building, its landscape, and its interiors.
I prefer to keep dreaming without boundaries, to live in a city where I can buy an orange walking through a market while going for a coffee in a little café at the corner of the building where a friend of mine lives two stories above the street, watching people passing by while he is having breakfast… (A specific memory of a cold morning during winter 1998 in the centre of Amsterdam).
I design with no boundaries and I run an architecture practice that is not design lead, construction lead, sustainably lead, or multidisciplinary and so on….I design feeling the complexity of living and the complexity of the impact of the built environment; a successful project is when everyone involved in the project contributes with their own personal experience and professional knowledge.
2016
Honorable mention
Kingswood House, Ferrymead, New Zealand
