Space Studio 19 Ignite Architects 3 Arvida Te Puna Waiora

Credits
  • Pou Auaha / Creative Directors
    Todd Myers, Vee Kessner
  • Ringatoi Matua / Design Directors
    Todd Myers, Vee Kessner
  • Ngā Kaimahi / Team Members
    Anoushka Dekker, Michael O'Gorman, Maddie Parker, Julie Lyons, Remy Smit
  • Client
    Arvida
Description:

Arvida Te Puna Waiora is a spacious, semi-rural, and modern retirement community with a focus on Living Well. Reflecting the community, its active outdoor life style, inspiring nature with its depth of agriculture, bush life and sustainable living are encompassed in the design.

Ngāti Rēhia worked with the Arvida retirement community since its inception when they gifted the name – Te Puna Waiora – The Source of Wellbeing. The planning creates a connection to the north tying it to Kerikeri, while the east-west axis of the building connects the building to Waitangi directly to the west, a significant site for Mana Whenua and Aotearoa.