Portfolio Archive - Page 4 of 4 - Kamermans Architects: Contemporary & Sustainable Building Design, Auckland, New Zealand

Takanini Child and Family Centre

29/10/2017

Our brief was to design a low cost building to accommodate three functions: a. Kindergarten for 100 children aged from 6 months to 5 years old. b. Family Centre, providing medical, counselling, adult education, meeting room and other community facilities. c. Headquarters for the Counties Manukau Kindergarten Association, the client. We chose to express the main functions as three single storey pavilions. The Kindergarten and Family Centre pavilions connected by a combined entry lobby. The pavilions are arranged to create outdoor play areas, an...

Eye Clinic, Whangarei

by KA Architects

11/06/2017

Apart from the functional requirements, the brief called for a building that was attractive, easily recognisable from the street, approachable for patients and created a pleasant working environment for staff. The key concept design decision was to locate all the standard height spaces in a "flat" roofed, economical box, into which the two volumes that required higher ceilings (procedures room and waiting/reception) were inserted, thus creating a composition of three distinct volumes, which are clad in different materials. As the building dealt...