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Seaview

Seaview

A collaboration with Lynda Simmons Architect.

Project Type | Residential Additions
Project Status | Completed
Photos & Images | Marty Williams

This project expands an existing Waiheke Island dwelling through a series of pavilions that frame a central landscaped courtyard and Golden Tōtara. Conceived by Lynda Simmons Architect around concepts of light, shadow, and architectural layering, Sayes Jackson (SJA) partnered on the project to deliver bespoke technical development, detailing, and documentation.

SJA’s technical craftsmanship carefully articulates the pavilions’ sculpted geometry, featuring a razor-sharp roof edge, expressed truss work, and exposed structure. Detailing brings together a palette of traditional and modern materials acompanying delicate screening elements and a varaiety of fenestrations.

Edmund

Edmund

Project Type | Residential New Build
Project Status | Detailed Design
Photos & Images | SJA

Located in a hidden valley in Auckland’s St Heliers a site containing existing 60’s architectural heritage (retainend), a Spagetti Junction of stormwater and waster pipes beneath, and a flood plane to boot.

Tohora

Tohora

Project Type | New Build
Project Status | Detailed Design
Photos & Images | SJA

A two-part dwelling in Waihi Beach intended to function as a family home and a place of work. The two wings of the building are positioned to shape and contain generous outdoor living and a courtyard that leverages afternoon sun and western rural views.

The functional plan is laid out to cascade down the property’s western slope. In form, the dwelling is conceived as a “wedge” cantilevered from the upper end of the property with its apparent suspension over the slope below providing a “hunkered in” space for kitchen, dining and living. The plan and form are linked with a lengthened flight of stairs, which run internally and externally to connect floor levels and terraced landscaping.

The dwelling is clad with carefully detailed, robust, yet humble materials, including concrete and galvanised metals.

Kingsland

Kingsland

Project Type | Residential, Additions, alteration and new build
Project Status | In Concept
Photos & Images | SJA

The result of an exploration of development potential on a dual street fronting property in Kingsland.

“Special Character” controls protect against demolition, subdivision and higher density development – however with a small reduction in size to the existing character cottage to a “minor dwelling” – a loop hole is realised and the opportunity for an all-new “primary dwelling” build is found.

The new construction housing modern living is proposed with double gable roof and horizontal white painted timber boards as a contemporary “nod” to Kingsland’s villa/cottage character.

The original cottage is altered to provide two bedrooms and a modern living space.

Rosalie

Rosalie

Project Type | Residential, New Build
In Progress | 2023
Renders | SJA

A collection of timber clad volumes are composed within a clearing a-top a bush clad property on Great Barrier Island. Careful arrangement across the site offers extensive views across a range of living modes while managing the ever change weather patterns.

Cumberland

“With poise and grace, Nick Sayes and Luke Jackson turn a humble Tāmaki Makaurau bungalow into something ethereal.”

Cumberland

Project Type | Alteration
Project Status | Completed 2020
Photos | David Straight
Text | Paraphrased from HERE Magazine, April 2021 (Chris Hall)

“Though in essence a fairly traditional extension, there is elegance here – a modesty and restraint that lends a meditative stillness. The main feature of the extension is the continuation of the iconic bungalow gabled roof, which has been beautifully expressed with timber detailing and an impressive skylight that captures light and evolving shadow play. The warm expanse of cedar joinery and oak flooring lends a sophisticated earthy calm, the antitheses of oppressive darkness typical in an old bungalow.”

“The key to this renovation is in Sayes Jackson Architects’ spatial arrangement and order of flow. There are nods towards New Zealand mid-century modernism, such as the work of the Group Architects, as well as Japanese design, especially in the spacial arrangement and connectivity.”

“The new living space is a great parental panopticon – the clients can easily keep an eye on their young children and when entertaining in the evening, they can tuck the kids away in the snug behind the sliding doors. The entire area accommodates different moods and scenarios – you can turn inward to the feature wall and feel cocooned as you read, or watch TV, or you can have more defensible space from the snug (which can also accommodate house guests when enclosed).”

Carefully crafted timber detailing expresses the additions structure.

“Much of the interior-exterior connection has been established by the level of the rear lawn, which is echoed in perimeter seating, pool terrace and fireplace hearth. There’s a contemplative space in the living area around the fireplace, where the hearth wraps the window and extends into the landscape to form the pool terrace. The floor continues seamlessly to the decking and when the sliding windows are pushed back, the interior-exterior boundary dissolves. “It was about getting the height, getting the light and having it open to the exterior””

Waitoa

Waitoa

A new dwelling for a young family on a corner site in a special character planning zone.

The dwelling was designed as a contemporary and “concrete” interpretation of a corner bay villa – with an expressed covered veranda wrapping the corner, central front entry and a bay fronting the street.

Project Type | Residential, New Build
Project Status | Work in Progress
Images | SJA

Japanese architectural ideals regarding entry and the passage through a building have been explored in the development of floor plans and spatial layouts.

An earthy green shikkui plastered wall is visible to both the interior and exterior. The radiused wall is expressive of the dwellings spatial layout as well as the dwellings relationship to the street corner.

One Ashridge Park

One Ashridge Park

A composition of three barn-like gable forms sit both within and over the land on a sloping rural lifestyle section in Coatesville. A number of architectural moments are created within the composition enabling a variety of internal and external living spaces.

Project Type | Residential, New Build
Project Status | Completed 2020
Photos & Images | Simon Wilson

A restrained palette of dark stained Western Red Cedar and European style tray profiled metals clad the exterior. Oiled oak and soft natural stones line the interiors.

Interior & exterior spaces are linked by way of bagged clay brick walls which continue inside to out.

Brass is used selectively within the dwelling on fixtures and surfaces to be touched by occupants – including the large pivoting front door. It is intended that the brass will naturally patina overtime.

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Storage Box

Project Type | Object
Project Status | Completed 2019
Photos | Yvonne Mak

Hand folded aluminium and ply storage boxes designed to complement a bespoke steel wardrobe unit – where no other “off the shelf” option would suit . . . the shelves.

The boxes are stackable with a handled detailed at the base for retrieval from a height.

Designed as part of a wider renovation project in collaboration with Trinity Interior Design and published in Homestyle Magazine, May 2020. Download PDF.

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“Our brief to Luke and Nick was fairly detailed when it came to the wardrobe, right down to the length of my longest dresses and the height of my highest boots,” says Nicola of this black-glassed beauty. “They approached the wardrobe in the same way as the overall renovation — with creativity, innovative thinking and a beautiful design aesthetic.”