Naish said he hoped that the initiatives for housing in the municipality would start the design for future projects and that it could help to fix New Zealand residential problems.
The Rotorua MP Todd McClay praised and explained that “head and shoulders” stand above a state project in Rotorua, which provided apartments with a bedroom for $ 630,000 each.
Naish, the founder of the 20-year-old architecture company RTA Studio, said that during the Covid 19 pandemic, he took three months to “what next?” To think.
He said affordable and sustainable houses were important topics and he was looking for solutions for living, lifestyle and climate crisis.
“I was disappointed with the abilities of the successive governments to deliver affordable apartments. There were so many failures and now there are still 21,000 people in our apartment register. It is a global disaster.”
Naish said his early 85 square meter three-bedroom design had arrived on a truck in a “flat pack style” in 36 modules. As soon as the foundations were finished, they could be put together within six or three people within six weeks.
“It means that we can build suburbs in weeks and not in years.”
The design uses pre-cut cross-laminated wood made of rotoruas red deer wood. It has bedrooms, a kitchen, a living and dining area as well as a large laundry and a bathroom.
The costs are saved by only a few add-ons such as wardrobes and storage areas, which can later be added by buyers.
The compact labor costs also save costs. According to Naish, most houses were 40% workers, but its design was 10% because many of the regular trades were not required.
The kitchen – consisting of a hob, an oven, range and a dishwasher – arrives in one unit and is connected by a hole in the floor.
Lighting and performance are connected by the soil and installed in a unit that is attached to the wall, which avoids the costs for wiring waves.
The house costs include solar collectors, inverters, solar -hot water, heat pump, floor coverings, lighting and carpets.
Foundations, decks and gardens were additionally and the buyers could choose from a series of color schemes, but could not change the plans by adding additional windows or walls.
Naish presented the Living House concept at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore last year after it was made closely in the “Future Housing” category.
His company then bought the Rotorua area for the pilot.
Naish said he chose Rotorua because the region had residential problems near Auckland and the most important players Scion, the advice on wood technology and Red Stag offered.
He said the pilot house would sell to a local family via the Rotorua Lakes Council and the IWI groups at costs.
Naish said the living house was not a “silver ball” for the New Zealand's housing crisis, since the costs for the country were still a big problem and a house with three bedrooms was not suitable for all purposes.
“Listening to daily news about children who live in cars and motels was a strong motivation to design a family house.”
He said, while the house is used to get people out of motels and cars, it is available to everyone, including Bach builders or buyers in the first home.
New design impressed
McClay said he was “very impressed” by the residential project, especially the costs.
“It is upside down and shoulders above what Kāinga Ora has done in our city in recent years.”
He said that the costs for the “container houses of the government” in Rotorua were “still incomprehensible”.
The Rotorua Daily Post In February, the 12 apartments with a bedroom on the corner of Ranolf Street and Malfroy RD each cost more than $ 630,000 for the construction, with the exception of the land costs.
Kāinga Ora said that the closed units with a bedroom usually cost between 325,000 and $ 520,000 each for the construction.
In response to cost criticism at the time of the costs of the costs of the Rotorua apartments, the cost of the price for the units produced by the off-site, including all transport, infrastructure, foundations and construction work on site.
These were selected at the time due to a lack of capacity in the New Zealand market, said Kāinga Ora.
McClay said the government has signaled the willingness to work with community groups and the private sector in Rotorua to build houses at reasonable costs.
“I congratulate all those involved on their hard work and will make sure that the high -ranking ministers of this service are aware of.”
The Minister of Housing Chris Bishop said that he did not support any certain products or houses in his position.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development said that the housing providers in the municipality had joined in order to obtain apartments directly.
The spokesman said that 140 million US dollars in the budget of the past year for 1500 new social housing locations were assigned by Community apartment providers in the next two financial years.
Kelly Makiha is a high -ranking journalist who has reported for Rotorua Daily Post for more than 25 years and mainly treats the police, court, human interest and social problems.