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2016 Grand Designs New Zealand - Bannan Construction | Grand Designs New Zealand Concrete HouseLast updated 21:30, September 25 2016
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Six fin walls advance bottomward the ancillary of the ample accurate abode that appearance in the aboriginal adventure of TV3's Admirable Designs NZ Series 2.
What could possibly go wrong? That's the catechism asked by homeowner-builder Ross Bannan as he sets out on an aggressive Admirable Designs NZ activity for his own family.
It is such a arch catechism in ablaze of what follows, we could be forgiven for apprehensive if that blow was taped afterwards the event. Hmmm, Mediaworks?
But it's fair to say that adapted from the alpha this was a project on a actual admirable calibration – a huge three-storey abode congenital from accurate caked absolutely in situ.
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Specialists in Architectural Concrete Homes - Bannan Construction | Grand Designs New Zealand Concrete HouseRoss and Maxine Bannan can assuredly relax and adore the abode they accept spent 10 years planning and building.
"Concrete is one of our added advocate architectonics materials," says GD host, artist Chris Moller. "We've gone mad for architectonics our houses with it."
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Bannan, who runs his own architectonics company, is a self-titled "concretologist". He is out to accomplish his own ancestors home a advertise for his business, and it's aloof as able-bodied he has a account of $1 million. Working with artist David Ponting of Ponting Fitzgerald, he has planned a huge abode that maximises a amazing cliff-top armpit aloft the bank in Pt Chevalier, Auckland.
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A adorning mirror and chandelier advice to abate the attending of the board-formed raw accurate in the adept suite.
Ponting absolutely shows us how it will assignment by digging a sandcastle adaptation on the bank below. And this is a agitating moment as the artist gets a little affecting – acutely a abundant activity and a abundant client will do that to you. "It's the alone architectonics that's fabricated me cry," he says. Bless.
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Grand Designs NZ: Ambitious concrete house brings unseen ... | Grand Designs New Zealand Concrete HouseBut you accept to duke it to this family. Ross, Maxine and their three children, Jasmine, Troy and Blake have been active in the "east wing" for a few years, which is absolutely the barn of the new house. And now they are architectonics the blow of the abode in the west wing.
The architectonics provides affluence of beheld ball – Moller refers to it, appropriately, as a "macro sculpture". There's a aciculate acme beside the entry, while six three-story accurate fin walls march bottomward one ancillary of the house, aperture up the autogenous to the angle and assuming off the anatomy of the building. "As the sun moves about it, these walls comedy with light, on a actual ample scale," says Ponting.
We can see "a bit of a captain theme", says Bannan, which is adapted for a ancestors that loves canoeing and added watersports.
This is a ancestors that all dent in to advice – the boys are roped into administering concrete trucks, authoritative the cavernous machinery and designing rooms. Dad meanwhile, is active mixing up appropriate accurate brews that advance the "flowability" of the accurate and the structural acerbity of the house, but they set adamantine aural 30 minutes.
AND THEN THIS HAPPENS
This is all actual well, till the aftermost cascade of the absolute project. A corrupt pumping accurate explodes and Ross Bannan takes the abounding force in the face. Temporarily blinded, he is rushed to hospital and the cast for his afterimage is not great, with 100 per cent accident to the cornea of the larboard eye and 50 per cent to the right.
"It was a absolute absoluteness analysis of how things can change in an instant," Bannan says. "It was a full-on life-changing experience."
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Concrete Farmhouse | Grand Designs New Zealand Concrete HouseMeant to rest, he continues to absolute cartage from hospital – the accouchement advice by enlarging the argument on his phone.
A bit-by-bit acknowledgment to assignment follows, and one day, ten years from the actual start, the abode is finally finished.
The astronomic accurate walls, which absorb all the grainy texture of the balk formwork, are complemented on the autogenous by sleek, dark-stained cedar that wraps about the access – a little added than Moller envisaged. "Could it be that Ross's abiding accord with accurate is on the rocks?" he says.
Maxine's eye for architecture ensures the accoutrement advice to soften the hard, raw attending of the apparent concrete.
There's additionally affluence of accustomed light, which pours bottomward into the active breadth from an astronomic skylight. And there are places area the beam compresses, again soars to draw the eye upward. This is a abode on a actual admirable scale, which was aloof what Bannan envisaged.
"It was absurd architectonics article accustomed in my own place," he says. "I've abstruse a lot of things over the years from architectonics for some abundant audience and I capital to accompany all the account calm and body article special."
And he did.
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