ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES FOR RESIDENTIAL & SMALL COMMERCIAL PROJECTS
If you own a villa, cottage or bungalow, your home has special character. To maintain the value of your building it is important to retain and enhance this character when planning alterations, renovations or additions to adapt your home for the comforts of modern living. For Chessa, combining an understanding of how people live and the experiences they want from their homes with an appreciation of the building’s historic form and features is the key to achieving a successful character home renovation.
The same principles apply when working with historic commercial buildings, especially when seismic strengthening work is required. Chessa is passionate about the careful and sensitive integration of strengthening that avoids damage to historic fabric and has minimum visual impact. Chessa also offers expertise in the development and design of adaptive reuse schemes for small commercial buildings that may have lost their original use, or are no longer fit for purpose.
As a heritage architect, Chessa can provide the owners of character homes or small commercial historic buildings looking to restore, renovate, or adapt with:
- specialised architectural advice on historic building features, construction, and planning
- feasibility studies
- design and planning of additions, alterations, and restorations of any size
- interior design and decoration advice
- Resource and Building Consent documentation
- procurement and building contract administration
- building biographies
- conservation management plans and maintenance plans
EXPERIENCE
Greytown Villa
- Greytown Villa: Complete design, project management and onsite works for the relocation, restoration and renovation of a traditional turn-of-the-century double bay villa. This project was featured in Your Home and Garden Magazine in September 2011.
- Kelburn Apartments: Design and Building Consent for the complete renovation of an early 1930s split dwelling in central Wellington
- Karori Bungalow: Design and Building Consent for renovations to the living area of a 1920s bungalow
- Carterton Villa: Design for renovation and additions to a turn-of-the-century villa
- Taihape Villa: Design for renovation and restoration of a turn-of-the-century villa