Richards & Coe Architects

Richards & Coe Architects

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Crescent Road: Waiheke Island

Here on a steep, rather unstable, but big and beautiful bush site in central Waiheke Island we are constructing a new garage and studio over. Also on the site we are moving on a house and setting this on new 6 metre deep piles (12 metres o/a length). Connecting the two will be a driveway. As is usual on Waiheke new waste processing system, water tanks, and extensive replanting and landscaping are part of the Consent Conditions. This work has now begun again.
The house was moved on to the site at 4am by Fistonich building movers in November following some intensive work locating the piles and the new bearers to support the house. The decks have now been completed and the roof - removed for transport - has been rebuilt.
The most recent developments have been the establishment of the retaining walls to redirect the stormwater flow to the watercourse in the valley, refurbishment and repalcement of the joinery and completion of the glazed verandas.
The owner would like to comment that the establishment costs of moving or constructing a house on a steep bush sections on Waiheke Island are expensive and sections need to be realistically priced (low) to allow for this.

Views to the north west up the valley gives huge sun to the
65m2 of decks suspended up to 6 metres off the escarpment.