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Projects File 2Please feel free to scroll and read or use the links just below to jump to the project of your interest. Back to projects or on to projects 3 Port Craig Boiler | Whariwharangi | Defence Installations | Farm buildings | Rimutaka Incline | Te Kahuoterangi | Ngarata
Port Craig, Southland DATE: (2001) POSITION HELD: Architect and conservator for the preparation of condition and remedial measures reports, maintenance plans and design and documentation of repairs. CLIENT: Department of Conservation BUILDING DESCRIPTION: The first mill was established at Port Craig in 1916 with relocated equipment for the Marlborough Timber Company's Nydia Bay, Pelorous Sound, operation. This mill was established to cut timber for a larger mill and settlement buildings and was located on the hill top overlooking the beach. Equipment used included a breaking down saw with table top, breast bench and docking saw, which was used to cut 8-9,000 superficial feet per day. Following construction of the larger mill, the original equipment was used to generate power for the winch on the wharf, the refrigerator and supplied hot water to the communal ablution block. The larger mill employed 200-300 people and the settlement included a store also operating as a post office, bank and pay office. Other buildings comprised a bake-house, cook-house, social hall, billiard room, school, library, single-mens huts and 25-30 houses. A tramline ran through the centre of the settlement. The most substantial house was the Mill Managers, with two chimneys still remaining. The mill was closed before World War II and was dismantled to prevent the enemy from making use of the equipment and materials, should they land in the area. The site of the sawmill is identified on the Southland Regional Coastal Plan and is listed as a recorded archaeological site on the Southland District Plan. The School is registered category II with the NZHPT, while the Percy Burn Viaduct is registered category I. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Preparation of a condition and remedial measures reports maintenance plans and specifications for repairs and maintenance for four structures. Whariwharangi Bay, Golden Bay DATE: (2001) POSITION HELD: Architect and conservator for the preparation of a condition and remedial measures report, maintenance plan and for design. CLIENT: Department of Conservation BUILDING DESCRIPTION: John Handcock who lived in the valley with his family for 15 years built Whariwharangi as a farmhouse in about 1896. Whariwharangi was last inhabited in 1926, farmed until 1972. During the later period the homestead served as a stockmans hut. The farms in this northern end of the Park, although the last top be retired, eventually succumbed to the impoverished granite soils. In 1980 the Abel Tasman Park Board, making significant modifications to suit its new use as a tramping hut restored Whariwharangi hut. Historic themes are pastoralism and farming. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Preparation of a condition and remedial measures report, maintenance plan and specifications for repairs and maintenance plan.
Marlborough Sounds DATE: (2001) POSITION HELD: Architect and conservator for the preparation of a condition and remedial measures report, maintenance plan and for design for seven structures and groups of structures. CLIENT: Department of Conservation BUILDING DESCRIPTION: This is one of two gun emplacements on the two northern points of Blumine Island. Associated structures are two magazines, two observation posts, two accommodation camps, roads and concrete water tanks. Blumine Island is in the middle of Queen Charlotte Sound and its guns covered the northern entrance. All structures were built by the Public Works Department and cement was delivered on site by a scow from the Tarakohe Cement Works. The gun emplacement is registered category II with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Preparation of a condition and remedial measures report, maintenance plan and specifications for repairs and maintenance plan.
Quail Flat, Clarence Reserve, Marlborough DATE: (1999/2001) POSITION HELD: Architect and conservator for the preparation of a condition and remedial measures report, maintenance plan and for design for four structures. CLIENT: Department of Conservation BUILDING DESCRIPTION: The Quail Flat farm heritage buildings comprise a timber framed woolshed, the cob cookhouse/Homestead, the cob bread oven and the timber framed and corrugated steel lined "Saloon Quarters". The homestead was possibly constructed in the 1860s and modifications since include the replacement of the thatched roof with corrugated steel in the early 1900s, a concrete floor in 1935 and the original colonial over was replaced with a the present cast iron range also in the 1930≠s. The present cob bread oven replaced a previous oven by the meat safe and was constructed in the 1930s. The oven has been reroofed at least once. The woolshed is believed to have been constructed at the same time as the homestead and also with a thatched roof. The building was expanded on all four sides in the 1920s for crutching and shearing operations. The "Saloon Quarters" is believed to have been constructed in the 1930s. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Preparation of a condition and remedial measures reports, maintenance plan and specifications for repairs and maintenance plans for each. Rimutaka Hill, Upper Hutt and Wairarapa DATE: (1992/01) POSITION HELD: Architect and conservator for the preparation of a condition and remedial measures report, maintenance plan and for design for all structures. A conservation plan for the Wellington Regional Council side was also prepared. CLIENT: Wellington regional Council and the Department of Conservation BUILDING DESCRIPTION: The Rimutaka Incline is considered by O S Nock as one of the ten most significant railway construction feats in the world. As the longest running Fell system, the rail bed and structures comprising the railway are a landmark achievement in international railway history. It is intimately associated with New Zealand early economic and infrastructure development. Individual structures, such as the Pakuratahi Bridge and the Ladle Bend are two of the oldest extant bridge designs in New Zealand. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Preparation of a condition and remedial measures reports, maintenance plan and specifications for repairs and maintenance plans for each of the structures. Ian Bowman assisted with the inspection of the repair work was on the Pakuratahi Bridge in conjunction with engineers, Sinclair Knight Merz. Kapiti Island, Kapiti DATE: (1993/01) POSITION HELD: Architect and conservator for the preparation of a conservation plan (1993) and design, documentation and site observation of work (1999/2001). The conservation plan was a joint project between Ian Bowman, Architectural Conservator, Architect, Michael Kelly, Historian, Richard Anderson, DOC, Peter DeLange, Botanist, DOC, Kevin Jones, Archaeologist, DOC and Emily Anderton, Assistant, DOC CLIENT: the Department of Conservation BUILDING DESCRIPTION: Te Kahuoterangi was one of a number of shore whaling stations that were set up on the New Zealand coast from the late 1820s. Kapiti Island was the centre of an active whaling industry, mainly shore based. Whaling was the first large scale profitable commercial activity undertaken in New Zealand and it had a considerable impact on both the local economy and the coastal populations of Pakeha and Maori. Kapiti Island was one of many places where the local population of Maori were quite dependent on the trade of the whalers. In fact early Kapiti whalers operated during very tense times. Te Rauparaha and his nephew Rangihaeata were asserting their dominance, often brutally, over a wide area of the country. The whalers and other traders were considered very useful by the Ngati Toa chiefs and their settlement on the island was encouraged. They needed guns and the resident Pakeha were a means to get them. While the history of the general area is documented, all that is presently known about the site has been gleaned from visual observation with no specific historical data discovered pertaining to the site . It was obviously not a large place but it clearly had a number of dwellings and at least two try pot stands. It can be regarded as an important representative example of an early Kapiti and New Zealand shore whaling stations, of which this appears to nationally be the most intact. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Preparation of a conservation plan to guide the repairs, use and interpretation of the site. Ian Bowman wrote specifications for repairs and observed the works completed by Shaun McLelland, stone mason. Totoranui, Golden Bay DATE: (2001) POSITION HELD: Architect and conservator for the preparation of a condition and remedial measures report, maintenance plan and for design. CLIENT: Department of Conservation BUILDING DESCRIPTION: Ngarata is located at Totaranui in the Abel Tasman National Park where William Gibbs first established a model dairy farm in 1856. The farm was sold to William Pratt in 1892 and the house was built in 1914 for William's son, Herbert Pratt, following his honeymoon in Sydney. The origins of the house design are unknown but may have been obtained while Herbert was in Sydney, either from an Australian architect or a book of house plans. The house was designed in the Californian bungalow style using local vernacular wall cladding of board and batten as was the main additions in the early 1920's. The original living and dining rooms use the board and batten as vertical framing with four continuous, nearly equally horizontally spaced, nogs disguised as cornice, picture rail, dado rail and skirting. Ngarata is nationally significant a rare early example of a New Zealand Californian bungalow of unusual structural design, which has a unique and beautiful setting, enhanced by early owners of the house. It is also significant having a valuable function providing accommodation in a very popular holiday area. This historic place is scheduled in the Conservancy Register of Actively Managed Historic Places. "Actively managed" status means it is eligible for the specific allocation of funding for historic conservation work and the provision of visitor services. The Register is maintained by the conservancy, and a copy of the register entry for this place is appended. It contains a official summary of the management intentions for this place. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Preparation of a condition and remedial measures report, maintenance plan and specifications for repairs and maintenance plan. home - about us - services - cv - projects - projects 3 - current projects - articles - links - contact |
