Aurora Lodge Whare Rēhia Maunga by Snorre Stinessen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Koura in Hoahoa Waihanga, Whare me te Hanganga Competition Category.
KouraWaihanga· 2021
Aurora Lodge Whare Rēhia Maunga
Client: Snorre Stinessen Architecture
A' Design Award Koura Winner in Waihanga Category
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The Design
About Aurora Lodge Whare Rēhia Maunga
He whare rēhia maunga a Aurora Lodge, he whare noho iti hoki, kei ngā Tiritiri o Lyngen mamao i Nōwei. Ka toro atu te whare matua ki tētahi papatahi māori i muri i tētahi rārangi rākau kotahi, ā, kei roto he wāhi noho tahi, e rima ngā rūma moe me ō rātou ake rūma horoi, me te kīhini me te rūma kai. He wāhanga noho motuhake me tētahi whare paera (sauna) kei te taha o te ara, kei tāwāhi hoki o tētahi awa iti. Nā te hanga A-frame tītaha ka rite te tuanui ki te āhua o te whenua, ka whai wāhi tūmataiti ki tētahi taha, me ngā tirohanga whānui ki tētahi atu. Ko ngā papa raima, ko te anga rino me te rākau, ko te uhi konukura, me ngā karaihe hanganga teitei e tika ana mō te wāhi takutai tuwhera.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Koura
Ko Aurora Lodge Whare Rēhia Maunga te toa o te A' Design Award Koura, he whakaaetanga tino whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa kōeke tuatahi, whakamīharo me te hiranga. Ko ngā toa Koura he mahi tino auaha, he tirohanga mamao, he kanapa ahi, e whakaatu ana i te pūmanawa, te mātauranga me te tohungatanga o ā rātou kaihoahoa. E tūmanakohia ana ko Aurora Lodge Whare Rēhia Maunga he hanganga tūnga e whakatū ana i ngā ia, he whakanuia rawa, e kawe mai ana i te uara kāore anō kia kitea. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Koura he kaupapa whakamīharo, whakahonoretia e whakawhānui ana i ngā rohe o te toi, te pūtaiao, te hoahoa me te hangarau. Ka whakaara a Aurora Lodge Whare Rēhia Maunga i te hiahia nui, ka whakaoho i te kaingākau, ka whakatenatena i te auaha, ā, ka whakamīharo i a tātou.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Located in the remote Lyngen Alps, this project is partly private retreat and a small lodge. Organized within a main structure comprising two units and terraces, a separate suite and a sauna across the creek. With respect for the nature the design endeavors to complement the site, with the main building stretching out across the natural plateau, just behind a single line of trees. High ceilings and seamless glass walls invite the sky and landscape into the building.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Main building: Length 32 x Width 8 x Height 6m
- Tags
- chalet, lodge, cabin, A-frame, shelter, Lyngen
- Production Technology
- Floor and foundations are combined in a concrete slab. Combined steel and wood construction ensures a solid, but slim envelope in spite of hurricane wind loads and massive snow loads. Buildings are clad in copper to withstand the salinity of the ocean air. Insulation, vapor barrier and complete construction ensures air transmission and construction breathing. Glass panels are upto six meters in height, structural glazing, glued directly to the steel pillars.
- Design Challenge
- The creative challenge was in the making of a design that both respects and embraces the fantastic natural surroundings. The technical challenges include construction and logistic planning for a very remote and inaccessible site, very limited building season etc and a very advanced construction demanding millimeter precision in all elements, the craning from a base 100m away and 50m higher of 6x2,5m glasses to be placed down between steel constructions on a very exposed site.
- Research
- The plot was originally bought more than 10 years previously by the architect privately, and much time has been spent on site to understand the terrain, seasons, winds, and other factors thoroughly analysed prior to the design of the project, positioning of buildings, landscape design, pre-production design, production, infrastructure, logistics planning and construction planning. The design even encompasses complete furnishing and equipment as a lodge and complete hospitality planning.
- Inspiration
- The concrete floor and terraces are an extension of the natural terrain. A simplistic A-frame design echoes a fundamental shelter; however here tilted back from the seaside to an angle where the roof is aligned with the surrounding terrain, to provide privacy on one side and panoramic views on the other.
- Project Duration
- Construction started July 2020, completed February 2021. Planning actually started 10 years earlier with the architect buying the plot privately and eventually developing a project for sale. The main layout is in line with the original design, although modifications where made in the detail planning upto construction.
- Operation Flow
- The main unit houses a fully independent communal living space, five bedrooms, all with private, en-suite bathrooms. The northernmost unit houses the main kitchen and dining room, designed like a winter garden observatory to provide fantastic views across the sea to the horizon.
Along the path to the main house, a separate annex/suite follows the same design approach. Across the creek, the sauna sits as a separate building with its interior all focused on the view towards the ocean. - Image Credits
- All Images: Snorre Stinessen
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