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Jack’s Point show home wins awards with Espan®
On a working farm 15 minutes from Queenstown, just past Kawarau Falls and Frankton and facing Lake Wakatipu, is the Jack’s Point residential and golf development. It’s been 15 years in the planning by international planning practice Darby Partners Limited, and is designed to visually blend into the landscape using environmentally sensitive design and technology.
The master plan ensures only five percent of the 1,200 hectares (3,000 acres) will be developed. As a result, over time developers expect to deliver 1,300 homes for up to 5,000 people including accommodation, retail and service outlets, a championship golf course and 35kms of outdoor trails.
Principal of Darby Partners is John Darby, a Kiwi with an international reputation for delivering spectacular and exclusive developments.
Approximately 30 years ago he established the Queenstown offices of environmental planning and the design consultancy Boffa Miskell, where he designed the golf and spa retreat Millbrook. Then in the late 1980s he established Darby Partners, creating Christchurch’s Clearwater golf and housing estate, followed by Jack’s Point.
Jack’s Point golf course is the sixth he’s designed, and it is already rated third best in the country according to US-based Links Magazine, and second of 40 by Australian Golf Digest.
One admirer believes “he’s the most skilled developer of lifestyle resort properties in New Zealand.”
Houses at Jack’s Point have to comply with 140 pages of design guidelines to ensure they “tread lightly on the land, [with] no disturbance to its intrinsic values,” and the Stonewood show home is no exception, winning awards for the work they have done there. In 2016 the house won the 2016 Otago and Southland Registered Master Builders’ Association GIB Show Home Gold Award, as well as category winner.
This approximately 240sqm, four bedroom home was constructed in 2015 on the 826sqm section. While it is owned by private individuals, Stonewood Homes Queenstown built it and has a 12-month renewable option to use it as their show home within this development.
It consists of four separate pavilions with 25 degree pitched roofs of differing heights, linked by three flat membrane roofs above connecting corridors. While the section has long north-south boundaries, the house is oriented east-west to maximise the impressive views. This orientation also allows for a large north-facing deck off the kitchen/dining and living pavilions, which are able to offer three aspects to ensure all-day light in every season – further adhering to the Jack’s Point design vision. A sheltered east-facing courtyard accessed from the kitchen/dining pavilion opens to views of The Remarkables.
Stonewood Homes Queenstown architect Filiberto Rayon-Villela (ANZIA) is a big fan of Metalcraft’s Espan® using New Zealand Steel components. “I like to play with materials,” he explained, pointing out he used Espan® not only as the roofing but as a cladding material on this build, in addition to cedar weatherboards. “The high ribs give strong shadow lines, and its concealed fixings mean it copes well with the Otago weather,” he says.
The concealed fixings on Espan® not only deliver excellent weather performance, but often eliminate the need for expensive substrates - profiles simply lock onto the clips, which are fixed directly onto purlins at varying centres depending on thickness and wind loadings.
“This product is manufactured in Colorsteel® and available in 340 and 470mm widths. It comes in a wide range of Colorsteel ® colours, including “Ironsand” which is a great fit with Jack’s Point design specifications.”
Like visitors through the home, Rayon-Villela loves the sense of space this home offers. “It delivers a series of individual but linked spaces that connect with the outside and provide sheltered outdoor spaces to be enjoyed all year round,” he says proudly.