Luxury in the Mountains

Compass Dolphin have recently completed a luxury two bedroom lodge above the Wairau River in Marlborough, close to the Rainbow Ski Area and Nelson Lakes National Park. Constructed of stacker-bond masonry hot blocks on an insulated concrete pad, the house is designed to be cool in summer, warm in winter and withstand the weather extremes which can occur on the site. Materials are left in their natural finish on the exterior and interior, to provide a low maintenance, robust but comfortable building in this remote location. Rough sawn local macrocarpa has been utilised to provide security shutters and interior ceiling sarking. Industrial roofing has been installed to provide resistance to snow loads. 


 
Northland Holiday Houses

Compass Dolphin Ltd is involved in the design of numerous beachside holiday homes in the upper North Island of New Zealand. The home featured here is a monopitch structure which uses industrial zincalume cladding and engineered lumber (LVL) products from the Carter Holt Harvey Marsden Point LVL facility. The house is intended for accommodation for aged and invalid users with level entrances to outside decks and a maintenance-free exterior. The LVL construction ensures rapid and accurate on-site construction times and will be exposed internally as a feature. 


 
New Home For Patent Attorney 

Compass Dolphin were selected by Carew Associates Project Facilitators to create a fresh, new and enduring fitout for AJ Park on two levels of Quay Tower in downtown Auckland. The brief consisted of two floors of mixed office and open plan environment, staff cafe and meeting areas, new furniture systems by Formway Furniture, extensive file storage areas and a total of over 50 individual offices for partners and associates. Public meeting spaces were created in a secure area without compromise to the relaxed and comfortable interior environment. Innovative daylight sensing lighting circuits were used in external offices to control energy usage. Natural cane and bamboo wall coverings were used to walls in feature areas.