Bathroom Pavilion
“The history of architecture has always privileged rooms of grandeur: the chamber, the parlour, the library, the hall. The modest toilet never got a sniff in. With the Bathroom Pavilion in Ashburton, architecture’s nether region becomes a space that affords the traveller not merely with convenience but, more surprisingly, with delight. Offering respite from the cooped-up confinement of the commute, the pavilion is entered not from the rear but frontally and centrally, with the arrival promenade organised so that one’s vista terminates on a grazing alpaca. A fritted glazed canopy means business can be transacted practically alfresco upon one of the impressive Japanese techno-pans.”
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Completion: 2019
Builder: Quaid Construction
Engineer: PLT Structural Timber Consultants
Photographer: Architype
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2019 Commercial Awards - Gold
2019 Commercial Awards - Economy Award
2020 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner - Commercial
2020 Canterbury Architecture AwardsWinner - Commercial
Jury Comments: “The history of architecture has always privileged rooms of grandeur: the chamber, the parlour, the library, the hall. The modest toilet never got a sniff in. With the Bathroom Pavilion in Ashburton, architecture’s nether region becomes a space that affords the traveller not merely with convenience but, more surprisingly, with delight. Offering respite from the cooped-up confinement of the commute, the pavilion is entered not from the rear but frontally and centrally, with the arrival promenade organised so that one’s vista terminates on a grazing alpaca. A fritted glazed canopy means business can be transacted practically alfresco upon one of the impressive Japanese techno-pans.”
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