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		w_awards_title[1]= "Radman Brown House. Nelson Mail. Master Builders House of the Year 2011 Gold Winner $600,000 – $ I million."
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		w_awards_title[0]= "1st Place China Taipei International Architecture and Design Competition. Absence of Tradition."
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		w_publications_title[3]= "Radman Brown House. Nelson Mail. House of the Year 2011 Gold Winner $600,000 – $ I million."
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		w_publications_title[2]= "Nelson Mail."
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		w_publications_date[2] = "08.2006"
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		w_publications_title[1]= "Dominion Post Wellington."
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		w_publications_date[1] = "03.1997"
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		w_publications_title[0]= "Dialogue Architecture Design and Culture Magazine - 1st Place China Taipei International Architecture Competition."
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 		w_news_title[5]= "Facebooked"
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		w_news_date[5] = "10.2011"
		w_news_text[5] = "Guy Herschell Architects finally made it to facebook. check out my developing page and keep track of my news and events."
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		w_news_title[4]= "Guy Speaks to Rotary"
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		w_news_date[4] = "10.2011"
		w_news_text[4] = "Guy had a fantastic night as guest speaker with the Nelson West Rotary Club speaking on the developement of current projects from the rusty house on the Waimea Planes to low cost architecture and some thoughts as to remediation in wake of the devistation of the Christchurch Earthquake."
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		w_news_title[3]= "High Voltage architecture in progress..."
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		w_news_date[3] = "09.2011"
		w_news_text[3] = "Guy Herschell Architects have some high voltage architecture on the drawing board at the moment!!,"
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		w_news_title[2]= "Recycled Cardboard Architecture by Guy Herschell Architects a Hit at Nelson's Eco-Festival."
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		w_news_text[2] = "100% recycled cardboard architecture was a real hit with the public at Nelson's Eco-Festival. I met many people with interesting stories, projects and backgrounds and it was a thoroughly awesome experience. Credit to Nelson City and Tasman District Councils, the Nelson retailers who let me at their waste for a day in my recycling ventures and the many supportive people who made the weekend enjoyable."
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 		w_news_title[1]= "Radman Brown House Strikes Gold at House of the Year Awards."
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		w_news_title[0]= "Rebuilding Christchurch"
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		w_news_date[0] = "09.2011"
		w_news_text[0] = "Lets rebuild Christchurch as New Zealands First Green Eco City"
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// Pods in a pea undertake seasonal work in christchurch.
w_project_id[20]="164"
w_project_title[20]= "Resort Development."
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w_project_date[20]= "01.2012"
w_project_url[20]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/164.html" 
w_project_text[20]="Resort Development. 2 Bed + Study Units Shown."

// Pods in a pea undertake seasonal work in christchurch.
w_project_id[19]="162"
w_project_title[19]= "Seasonal work in Christchurch for Pods in a Pea."
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w_project_date[19]= "10.2011"
w_project_url[19]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/162.html" 
w_project_text[19]=""

// Bio Feed back.
w_project_id[18]="161"
w_project_title[18]= "Bio Feedback. A Habitat for Humans. (An Eco Machine for Living)"
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w_project_date[18]= "10.2011"
w_project_url[18]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/161.html" 
w_project_text[18]="This emerging project continues to explore the connection between house and garden, built form and ecosystem, and the feedback and balance inherent in maintaining a healthy resilient living habitat for humans. It looks at the whole water, waste and energy cycle in the house and how it might be explored if it were considered living architecture in connection with its wider eco system. Hidden household components are pulled out into the light so that the occupants are involved in and interact with the whole water and waste cycle. Where your poop goes, what water you are using and how the house is connected with its whole eco cycle. This emerging project continues to explore the connection between house and garden, built form and ecosystem, and the feedback and balance inherent in maintaining a healthy resilient living habitat for humans. It looks at the whole water, waste and energy cycle in the house and how it might be explored if it were considered living architecture in connection with its wider eco system. Hidden household components are pulled out into the light so that the occupants are involved in and interact with the whole water and waste cycle. Where your poop goes, what water you are using and how the house is connected with its whole eco cycle."

// castle House. 
w_project_id[17]="144"
w_project_title[17]= "Rural Tor House. Castle House."
w_project_pix[17]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/images/144B0.jpg"
w_project_date[17]= "10.2011"
w_project_url[17]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/144.html" 
w_project_text[17]="The rural tower house."

// James House.
w_project_id[16]="143"
w_project_title[16]= "Cowan House. Mapua Wharf House."
w_project_pix[16]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/images/143B7.jpg"
w_project_date[16]= "9.2011"
w_project_url[16]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/143.html" 
w_project_text[16]="To me, Mapua has always been synonymous with Mapua wharf, cool stores, apples, fish and chips, fun friendships and naughty antics; free spirited time spent away from an all too stifling hierarchy, in search of adventure and freedom. This project is a house for a fantastic garden section, in what has become an affluent area of Mapua, for a friend I have known for nearly twenty years. It reaches back through time and memory to embrace important aspects of care-free living, all too easily consumed, as Mapua has been, by a banal modern suburban model of money and appearances and growing up.<br><br>Respectful to prolific planting which has matured to become a defining aspect of the site, and informed from the industrial processes, cool stores and the wharf of yester-year- Mapua, the house figuratively and  literally steps over the garden, like a wharf, touching the site lightly, structurally, environmentally and ecologically. The decks are clad in perforated mesh through which light can penetrate for ferns fauna and cacti, to grow beneath and be watered through the deck. In defiance of specific site convents restricting every other low cost material option, the building walls are lined in Bondor cool store panels, structured around local LVL portals reflecting a garden-industrial aesthetic. The interior is lined with ply through out, using one material to reduce cost and increase builder bulk purchase discount; Or should budget dictate, recycled apple bin timbers complete with orchard stamps acquired from local orchards.<br><br>The building is highly environmentally friendly featuring well insulated cool store cladding, solar hot water heating, and composting toilet, - the contents of which are immediately recyclable on the surrounding garden. Designed around enjoyable friendly living, the house is fully open plan, abandons the concept of doors and spatial delineation is achieved by way of a central bathroom and shower core. Drawing upon the essence of iconic quintessential New Zealand lifestyle elements - fire baths, outdoor showers and fun times with friends, an indoor/outdoor naughty shower draws the outside-in by means of an open topped stainless steel tube penetrating the roof with the shower head plumbed into the base. 'Yes: the rain can get in! (It’s a wet area anyway) 'but you can shower under the stars and that is just way too cool’. An outside bath has plumbing piped to it, and the water discharges to irrigate the garden. Mesh privacy screens enable the garden to grow vertically bringing the garden into the ‘green house’ providing natural privacy."

// Batch.
w_project_id[15]="142"
w_project_title[15]= "Prefabricated Batch. St Arnaud."
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w_project_date[15]= "9.2011"
w_project_url[15]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/142.html" 
w_project_text[15]="Very early concept studies for a structurally innovative cross laminated timber (CLT) prefabricated Batch. St Arnaud."

// Domestic Base Isolation
w_project_id[14]="141"
w_project_title[14]= "Post Christhcurch. Affordable Domestic Timber Frame Base Isolation. "
w_project_pix[14]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/images/141B0.jpg"
w_project_date[14]= "09.2011"
w_project_url[14]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/141.html" 
w_project_text[14]="The legacy of the Christchurch earthquakes will affect many areas of the building sector. It is conceivable that, in addition to impacting on planning and building control regulations, insurance will likely become more expensive, harder to secure and property owners will be expected to invest more in the protection of their property, buildings and the welfare of people. We ought to see an increase in holistic and innovative architect-engineering processes across building typologies other than those providing essential services. In domestic architecture, the earthquakes ought to have raised questions about the suitability of poured concrete slab foundations in high risk locations.<br><br>This is a concept foundation system for domestic timber framed buildings with distributed floor loadings using flexible neoprene ‘stalks’ to a threaded driven steel pile system to provide foundation level ductility and dampening. It may not require concrete, is suitable where driven or drilled piles are achievable, conceivably has some degree of vertical suppression, and can, within limits, be re-levelled by threaded adjustment after an earthquake. The system is divided into three parts; a driven and threaded small bore hollow steel pile, an adjustable levelling neoprene isolation element (crudely resembling the spikes on a hair brush), and finally a diaphragm floor plate system. (crudely resembling the sturdy back of a hairbrush).<br><br>A grid of small bore treated 80mm internally threaded hollow steel rods are driven into the ground at regular intervals in accord with site geotechnical conditions and flooring span requirements. The foundation system reverses a steel rod and corrosion treatment system normally used in tension stabilized hill sides, but will equally function in compression as a distributed load bearing foundation. Piles can alternatively be drilled and grouted or a threaded base unit can be set in a standard concrete foundation where these options are preferable or required.<br><br>Circular Neoprene ‘stalk’ isolators, with internal stainless steel wire core and counter opposed threaded bottom and top casings, are screwed into the top of the piles and the bottom of bearer brackets. Like plastic pedestals used in a false floor, this system can be levelled at installation and after ground settlement by adjusting the ‘stalks’ in the same way.  The ‘stalk’ isolators are not intended to duplicate base isolation of led-steel-rubber, pivot and dampener, or dish and bearing systems employed in larger commercial applications which are costly and not easily scalable; but rather provide ductility and dampening in all vector directions at foundation level, inhibiting the transmission of Earthquake forces into the building. Acting in conjunction with a ply diaphragm floor or under-joist multi brace cross bracing the system is rigid to gravity loading through distribution and number of stalks. However larger horizontal earthquake loading will flex the stalks dampening the loads transmitted into the building reducing damage to property."

// Peas in a pod
w_project_id[13]="140"
w_project_title[13]= "Worker Accomodation. Pods in a Pea (or the Hungry Caterpillar)"
w_project_pix[13]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/images/140B2.jpg"
w_project_date[13]= "08.2011"
w_project_url[13]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/140.html" 
w_project_text[13]="A scheme for worker accomodation.<br><br>Image Credit | Eric Carle - The Very Hungry Caterpillar "

// Earth Wind Fire House.
w_project_id[12]="137"
w_project_title[12]= "Earth Wind Fire House."
w_project_pix[12]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/images/137B0.jpg"
w_project_date[12]= "08.2011"
w_project_url[12]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/137.html" 
w_project_text[12]="This house for a couple on a modest budget, explores the sensory desires of its inhabitants through the changing seasons and the difference in living patterns, ritual and existential qualities of winter and summer. The house is composed in two adjoining halves; a solid rectangular rammed earth enclosure containing a winter kitchen and living area, two bedrooms one doubling as a study/library, toilet and shower; and a rectangular canvas tent structure akin to an ‘Architectural Yurt’ enclosing summer living area, flued central fire enclosure, and alfresco living and dining.  The project explores the relationship between seemingly temporary or nomadic space versus earthen hibernation and asks how much space we actually need? how much ‘living area’ has to be costly ‘conditioned space’ subject to extensive compliance restraints versus a role for less expensive more flexible ‘unconditioned yet enclosed space’<br><br> earth = ramed earth | wind = sail like tent structure | fire = central to all"

// The Nest Egg.
w_project_id[11]="135"
w_project_title[11]= "Wine Tasting Room. The Nest Egg."
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w_project_date[11]= "07.2011"
w_project_url[11]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/135.html" 
w_project_text[11]="This scheme, beginning with the winemakers ‘nest egg’ or wine tasting room,  investigates the components of the wine experience on the property as being a village, a series of happenings or a community of architectural works and functions on the land rather than an all encompassing building or statement that defines a brand. ‘The nest egg’ is a large low lying egg shape building constructed from a series of varying curved plywood box beams with internal bespoke LED lighting. The exterior of the egg shaped tasting room is formed from a build up of thin laminated ply and glass resin using established and tested boat building technique, forming a polished timber and resin shell to alternate council solution.<br><br>The walls are insulated with dried saw dust and wood chip, currently undergoing testing, and internally finished with woven bamboo and harakeke panels reminiscent of Maori tukutuku.  The space is naturally lit by large glazed entry door way and horizontally opposed feature glass window. The flooring is constructed from sealed polyurethaned strand board as is the joinery and facilities. The exterior of the shell is surrounded by an over arching lightweight steel frame upon which a cloak of pruned vine branches with areas of penetration are woven forming a shroud - a once living architecture solidified into a nest for an egg.<br><br>Other happening planned in the community of architectural and artistic occurrences are a glass dining hall and an earthen cellar."

// Cardonia.
w_project_id[10]="139"
w_project_title[10]= "Cardonia. Summer Architect Pavilion."
w_project_pix[10]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/images/139B0.jpg"
w_project_date[10]= "05.2011"
w_project_url[10]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/139.html" 
w_project_text[10]="The public frequently sees the Architect’s role in buildings of import, quality or expense, but architecture has a role across a spectrum of social and economic circumstances, needs, desires and necessities. Curiously coincidental with the presentation of Shigeru Ban’s vision of a post-earthquake cardboard cathedral for Christchurch, the purpose of this cardboard pavilion, made entirely from recycled materials sourced from the waste of Nelson retailers and commercial enterprise, was to open a dialogue with the public about the role of architecture in practice by transforming the waste material of others into design and space worthy of displaying my 'most precious works’.<br><br>It has grown to become a mobile pavilion for the summer practice of architecture.<br><br>Summer is here! - Look out for Guy Herschell Architects office installed, using cloud computing, of-grid power and mobile communications at Tahuna beach - Tahunanui, Washbourne Gardens- Richmond, Haulashore Island, atop Barnicote Hill and Nelson CBD."

// The Bed Bug.
w_project_id[9]="136"
w_project_title[9]= "The Bed Bug."
w_project_pix[9]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/images/136B0.jpg"
w_project_date[9]= "05.2011"
w_project_url[9]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/136.html" 
w_project_text[9]="Designed to fit within Councils 10 square metre building consent exempt frame work, this project is an experimental modified papercrete bed-pod which is raised off the ground on insect like legs with electrical insulator feet and designed to be a fun additional sleep-out for the children. It is essentially a stand alone and semi-portable ‘bed bug’ with room for a double bed and night stand. The pod is formed from a light weight interlocking frame supporting the application of a weatherproofed papercrete skin. The internal walls and floor are finished from woven rattan cane, and insulated with wool bats, reminiscent of being inside a very large all encompassing coolie chair with a hard exterior shell. Minimal LED lighting is powered by photovoltaic panel on the roof."

// House for young players.
w_project_id[8]="138"
w_project_title[8]= "A House for Young Players."
w_project_pix[8]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/images/138B0.jpg"
w_project_date[8]= "04.2011"
w_project_url[8]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/138.html" 
w_project_text[8]="This is a house for my friends, who are young couple building their first home. It is a search for what architecture has to offer the young and inexperienced, in a situation where banks require confidence and complete documentation to lend and where the client perceives they can’t necessarily afford a design process separate of a package deal. It asks whether changes could be made to the architect’s traditional procurement process to affect a greater degree of certainty and assistance for young players.<br><br>Weighing in under 100m2, and clad in shiny metallic corrugated Zincalume on all sides, this home is a rural industrialized New Zealand ‘Barn for Living’. It is an un-precious Kiwi comment on the early twentieth century modernist ‘machine for living’ and what this movement may have looked like if it had started in New Zealand as a ‘barn for living’ grown from our own socio economic roots of corrugated iron and number 8 fencing wire solutions.<br><br>Constructed from low cost materials and off the shelf industrial componentry, the building is essentially a quartered box with a built in carport. Kitchen, laundry and entry and breakfast occupy the north east, living and entertaining, the north-west, with two bedrooms to south east and west respectively with a central bathroom. Seemingly alien and injected into the urban fabric, this house of rural origin, is delightfully un-requiring of its surroundings.  Through a theatrical quality of material It offers its urban surroundings reflection with hints of warmth, in place of dialogue, concealing and protecting a warm cosy interior personality.<br><br>The procurement method for this building differs from standard and is more akin to design-build delivery for a small and easily quantifiable building on a flat site. Playing on the strength of established working relationships rather than competitive tendering to effect cost savings, the builder is selected and appointed by the architect at the beginning of the project in the design phases. Working together the builder provides preliminary cost verification to the architect and the architect /client varies the scope of work accordingly to meet a given budget. Later the builder issues a final contract price verification based on the working documentation and executes the work to the agreed value. The architect is engaged to observe the contract works and certify bank draw-downs. The scope of fitting, finish and appointment inclusions are modified to meet the required budget between architect, builder and client.<br><br>Features<ul><li>Very low maintenance external Zincalume cladding and roof.</li><li>Generous double glazed aluminium windows and doors and enclosed all weather deck.</li><li>Minimally Treated and Untreated Douglas Fir construction to alternate Council solution with Wool and closed cell foam Insulation.</li><li>Timber strand-board flooring to standardized timber pile flooring.</li><li>Low cost painted Green first MDF Joinery Formica bench tops.</li><li>Exposed posistrut and plywood living room ceiling and perforated steel servery and breakfast bar ceiling.</li><li>wood burner fire and Solar hot water heating.</li></ul>"

// Radman-Brown House Content.
w_project_id[7]="133"
w_project_title[7]= "Radman-Brown House. Drawing upon the textures of the rural Waimea landscape."
w_project_pix[7]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/images/133B14.jpg"
w_project_date[7]= "03.2011"
w_project_url[7]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/133.html" 		
w_project_text[7]="Clad in rusting steel, dramatic black stained battened plywood and nestled in the rural watershed of the Richmond ranges south of Nelson, this state of the art family eco-home explores the context of building in the landscape of the rural Waimea planes, drawing upon the textures of rustic rural buildings and rusty wool sheds to create an elegant weathering building bathed in an underbelly of light and sumptuous family living.<br><br>The client’s brief called for a family home which was suitable for young children, with room for future flexibility; a home which embodied best practice eco and architectural principals, lifestyle ideals, and sustainable eco-technology within a balanced budget.<br><br>The house embodies a number of prototyping firsts, eco-friendly architectural detailing and best practice sustainable passive solar design featuring,<br><ul><li>an exposed iron oxide impregnated concrete solar mass  floor</li><li>Code exceeding R6 roof and R3.2 wall wool insulation in overlapping layers to prevent thermal bridging</li><li>Low-E argon filled thermal glazing throughout<li>Active and passive heating and cooling transfer from the communal living  regions to the bedrooms</li><li>Controllable passive stack effect ventilation through  roof light windows</li><li>Integrated heat pump-solar -wet back powered under floor  heating</li><li>Solar hot water heating</li><li>Unique LED Low power and low voltage task and  environment lighting throughout with the provision for off grid power supply operation</li><li>On site roof water detention and storage</li><li>On-site waste and grey  waster dispersal</li><li>Recycled plastic decking</li><li>Green First certified  environmentally friendly Ply cabinetry and joinery</li><li>low VOC finishes and absolute minimum Timber preservative treatment using Douglas Fir timber to alternative Council solution.</li></ul>Contractor | John Harris - Harris Builders<br><br>2011  House of the Year 2011 Gold Winner $600,000 – $ I million.<br>"
		
// Christchurch temporary Housing. 	
w_project_id[6]="134"
w_project_title[6]= "The Container Garden. Christchurch Earthquake Temoprary Housing."
w_project_pix[6]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/images/134B0.jpg"
w_project_date[6]= "10.2010"
w_project_url[6]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/134.html" 		
w_project_text[6]="A scheme for Christchurch earthquake temporary housing relief utilizing rubble and liquidfaction tailings from the desaster as a base for growing new urban garden communities of earth sheltered container houses.<br>"		

// Commercial Building Richmond.		
w_project_id[5]="132"
w_project_title[5]= "Commercial Building. Redeveloping the northern Richmond CBD." 
w_project_pix[5]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/images/132B0.jpg"
w_project_date[5]= "09.2009"
w_project_url[5]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/132.html"
w_project_text[5]="This proposal for a commercial  building forms part of a wider redevelopment of the Placemakers site in the central Richmond CBD. The folded ground and roof planes of the building reflect the folded rolling nature of the Richmond hills and the dynamic long  exposure vitality of Richmond's Queen Street. Innovative structural and environmental systems are employed in the provision  of desirable clear span retail, traditional smaller scale retail and office tenancies.<br><br>Site and Urban considerations.<br><ul><li>Maintaining a permeable frontage to Queen Street in keeping with the more disbursed building typology surrounding the east end of Queen Street and avoiding overly dominant street wall configurations.</li><li>Redevelopment of the nature of the site from industrial to mixed use office, retail and entertainment.</li><li>The implementation of raised plaza concourse circulation to elevate pedestrian dominance over cars while maintaining vehicular access from Queen Street.</li><li>Utilization of vertical ground plane to separate car pedestrian and vehicular zones and provide a mixture of concealed and open parking.</li><li>Separation and or redistribution of the required car parking provision and the existing Richmond mall car park so as to avoid a hole in the urban CBD fabric.</li><li>The strengthening of urban connection and development of pedestrian interaction that will pull people up Queen Street from the mall and create reasons to linger.</li><li>The implementation of Boulevard planting to Queen Street.</li></ul>Eco  Technology.<br><ul><li>Wide solar control eaves and structural truss shading.</li><li>Specific glazed solar control louver system.</li><li>Green Eclipse and Sunergy Double Glazing.</li><li>Glazing design from standard sheet sizes.</li><li>Cross ventilation stack effect window system.</li><li>On site roof rain water storage.</li></ul><br>Joint venture | Guy Herschell Architects and Daines Associates Architects | Architect. Guy Herschell"
		
// Fry House Content
w_project_id[4]="117"
w_project_title[4]= "Fry House. Exploring the New Zealand Beachfront House."
w_project_pix[4]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/images/117B0.jpg"
w_project_date[4]= "04.2008"
w_project_url[4]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/117.html"
w_project_text[4]="Located on a waterfront  site adjacent the Riwaka estuary north of Motueka, this evocative New Zealand  beach front house has been extrapolated from the textures and human traces of  the sedimentary costal environment.<br><br>The house is warm, light and airy and opens to, dramatic estuary sea views, north western ranges and the  Able Tasman National Park,  while cleverly screening the privacy of the occupants on an exposed and  demanding site.<br><br>With living, relaxing and entertaining in mind, the communal areas extend into both summer decks and winter courtyard for customizable living space and  alfresco dining in all seasons. The bedrooms are raised on a split level  providing intimacy with vistas of the North West Nelson   Ranges while the garaging  and servicing is sunk into the site giving the overall appearance of a single  storey house.<br><br>The house features passive solar design principals applied within a difficult  site context; Active and passive heating transfer from the living areas to the  bedrooms; Passive stack effect ventilation through controllable clearstory  windows; A combination of double glazed and targeted high level Low-E  clearstory glazing; Code exceeding wool thermal insulation; Reduced timber  preservative treatment using Douglas Fir timber; Green First certified plywood  joinery and cabinetry. On site water detention and storage with the provision  for the inclusion of solar water heating and eco friendly under floor heating."
		
// Zero Lot line development
w_project_id[3]="110"
w_project_pix[3]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/images/110B2.jpg"
w_project_date[3]= "07.2006"
w_project_url[3]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/110.html"
w_project_title[3]= "Zero Lotline Development. Eco Vilage Comunity Living."
w_project_text[3]="A series of zero lot line eco friendly houses as part of a comprehensive housing development."

// A waka of treasures.
w_project_id[2]="102"
w_project_title[2]= "A Waka of Treasures. An Arc of Memories Traces and Dreams."
w_project_pix[2]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/images/102B2.jpg"
w_project_date[2]= "03.2006"
w_project_url[2]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/102.html"
w_project_text[2]="Architecture’s most cherished assumption is that building must claim stable ground. It is an assumption that overlooks the sedimentary layering of tradition, cultures and people and has neglected the Tao of nomadic temporary space.<br><br>An installation of a small structure for exhibiting artefacts, photos and literature in the historic Wellington Railway station. A look at space, container and memory and how they intertwine together, claiming space on uncertain ground in a rapid environment, trapping and configuring becalmed space in a sea of people. Unravelling a kind of Theatre.<br><br>A tensile frame. The gathered fabric walls of the closed structure open to become the taught roof, unfolding a house of histories and traces. The mesh ends fold down to become the entry and exit. The roof can be transformed by altering the tension on the plywood roof members. A change in state like water, ice and steam with temperature.<br><br>Water pools in the structure preserving histories and images, like a preserving jar, a river of tears, a wishing well. Water, people and architectural memory, within a city artery. Sodden foot prints in the city. Tracing and compiling an endless tradition.<br><br>Light protects from beneath the glass casting refracted imagery on the fabric ceiling capturing peoples shadows, temporary images, touching overlapping and transforming into unknown textures. Traces of journeys, dreams, foreign fragments and distorted imagery. The projection and reintegration of a forgotten architecture.<br><br>People, migration and architecture, a sense of place awash, like flotsam scattered on beech between high and low tide, continually being reorganized and reconfigured by a tide of time.<br><br> It is a reminder that we are simply observers, caretakers of our environment not claimants." 

//An architeture Awash.
w_project_id[1]="101"
w_project_title[1]= "Architecture Awash. Configuring Space and Architecture in the Margins." 
w_project_pix[1]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/images/101B9.jpg"
w_project_date[1]= "11.1997"
w_project_url[1]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/101.html"
w_project_text[1]="The project is grounded at Wainui Bay, bordering the North West reaches of the Able Tasman National Park on the North West fingers of the south island, New Zealand. The site is a long peninsular of sand that extends into a large inlet. A node that embraces a powerful visual and sensual connection with the wind, water and sand, set amidst a distorted and exaggerated presence of tide. The tide surrounds, swirls, staggers, siphons and sifts though the environment in an organizational role. It approaches, threatens, shifts, claims and retreats. On a canvas of sand it adds and subtracts mass, carves markings and tracery that bear testament to its presence and deposits and deposits and removes debris from the margins.<br><br>There also exists a condition of a site, one that does not want or need to be claimed, a battle for authority and attrition between sand and sea, reclamation and erosion, mass and fluid, where scientific constructs are awash. The true nature of the sand is at the mercy of the forces of nature, not earth, not sea; it is a shifting wandering watermark. Physical datum’s, boundaries and geometries exist only as tectonic echoes, memories of distant and past constructs, phases of the moon, wind and time, linked and modulated by the ever present tide.<br><br> The relationship of architecture to this site is one that re-searches for the essential qualities of the natural environment through discovery, measurement, interpretation and translation. The project begins with the view of measuring the environment and examines the short falls of assigning numeric and geometric value to that which is reverberant, that which doss not want nor require claiming or measuring. It is a commentary that suggests that when we attempt to assess the variables and give measure to a system we define limits and impose boundaries that constrict the natural flow of energy. In essence by the act of measurement we alter the system we seek to define, and always the system counters the intrusion by coven guise.<br><br> A Channel, To draw the sea into and through the sand. Heavily anchored and piled to the site. Incremented so that one can see the sand build up and erode away, and the tide rise, fall and flow in, out and through. A measurement not only of level but flow, it is the datum in both plan and section. An ‘environmental thermometer’ that measures in real time, site conditions and constructs. – Measurement, interpretation and translation occurring in a dynamic manner in real time. The architecture does not seek to establish a transverse datum. As the sand and sediment flows from the estuary through the channel and is deposited at the channel’s limit in the sea. Here a sand spit is accumulated reaching seaward from the channel; sea and sand; architecture and site are enmeshed in a tectonic struggle of attrition and importance. Architecture is found needing extra length to claim newly found site, and the cycle of attrition continues.<br><br>The project moves on from measurement to claiming space in wandering and elusive site. The architecture lets the sand initiate the configuration of territory and space in both plan and section. The building is free to float with the natural migration of sand along the channel. The pools and the building move on runners, out riggers of the channel. By measurement the architecture has defined a limit on how the site is examined. In clinging to the channel the building is free to move with the migrating sand in the direction measured by the channel, but it is denied the freedom to move in the transverse direction. It is still tethered to the process of measurement, still seeks stability. The five pools are set level to the spring high tide. When the tide rises he pools fill by naturally occurring hydraulics from water carried by the channel. When the tide falls the pools are trapped by a hinged valve. The connections from pool to the channel are set on a rail that slides in unison with the building within the channel wall so that the water is able to fill the pools at any location along the channel. The process looks at trapping becalmed water in a sea of sand, establishing a safe place for water in a shifting environment. It examines the condition of sand and water. Entombed secret channels of water, erosion and reclamation of sand, configuration of space, holding back sand yet allowing it in, channeling and pooling of water, sand and architectural eddies.<br><br>In essence this project is an architectural excursion into the temporary, in which one senses the impression of raw nature, not manipulated landscape. It is a glance at the wind, sand, light and water and the existential qualities that these conditions gift to architecture, conditions more dynamic and beautiful than an architecture that denies these by laying claim to the whole. Transcendence is little more than this concept. Whether applied in the shimmering sand or from within the fleeting interstitial spaces of the city, transcendence is simply embracing the freedom of change, the reverberant nature of our world and applying an understanding of the creation of space in a in a shimmering and wandering environment. In flexibility of growth, inhabitation, technology and spirit lies the great architectural shift of the next millennium, a conscious acknowledgment of that which lies beyond architectures claim. An understanding that we are simply observers, caretakers of our environment, not claimants."	
	
// Snippets from the studio.
w_project_id[0]="100"
w_project_title[0]= "Snippets From The Studio." 
w_project_pix[0]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/images/100B10.jpg"
w_project_date[0]= "Various Dates"
w_project_url[0]= "http://www.guyherschell.com/pages/100.html"
w_project_text[0]="A wee peek behind the scenes."

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working_process[1]="<p>I will,</p><ul><li>Listen to your  requirements and desired design outcomes, lifestyle aspirations and your  budget.</li></ul><ul><li>Discuss with you your  likes and dislikes. In addition to describing to me what you like,  it is equally important that you tell me about the aspects of buildings or materials  that you don’t like.</li></ul><ul><li>Check that your intentions are generally in accord with your budget, based on my knowledge of the building industry and by applying an indicative square meter cost  calculation to the general building floor area that you provide.</li></ul><ul><li>Work with you to develop  your initial design aspirations into a project brief which will be unique to  your project requirements. The brief will likely include the physical building  requirements, the activities and spaces required and desired  materials and finishes. It may also include lifestyle and environmental considerations or participation in an  environmental accreditation scheme.</li></ul><ul><li>Refine a preliminary  project programme with you. The programme will describe an initial estimated  time line of the various stages of the project. It will depend on the nature  and complexity of your project, market conditions, the provision of consultant  services and Territorial Authority requirements.  </li></ul><ul><li>Confirm the information  developed with you in the project brief, programme and scope of services, together with my schedules of fees, known disbursements and standard  conditions, in the form of a completed New Zealand  Institute of Architects Agreement for Architect Services.</li></ul><ul><li>Provide you with two  copies of the completed NZIA Architects Agreement for Services.<strong> </strong>You will need to review the agreement  and return a signed copy.</li></ul><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"process\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Process'>Process</span></a><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"working\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Working with Guy Herschell Architects'>Working with Guy Herschell Architects</span></a><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"profile\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Practice Profile'>Practice Profile</span></a>"

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working_process[2]="<p>I will,</p><ul><li>Obtain and review your  certificate of title information for legal requirements, easements, access, covanents and third party interests.</li></ul><ul><li>Review council records,  to ascertain the consented history of your property, access to and servicing of  your site, existing buildings on the site, previous council and consultant correspondence and existing use rights that may be available to you. It may  also be necessary, particularly if your property is outside Nelson, to obtain a  Project Information Memarandum from the relevant territorial authority.</li></ul><ul><li>Review likely  implications of resource management planning rules, local authority design  guides and heritage considerations for early indications of Resource Consent requirements.</li></ul><ul><li>Advise you as to the need for the engagement of other specialist consultants. These may include geotechnical consultants for  hill side sites, planning consultants for notified resource consents, engineering consultants to provide technical and structural services and surveying consultants to provide accurate site information.  For new buildigns a survey of property boundaries, site contours, and positions of existing buildings on the site will almost certainly be required.</li></ul><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"process\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Process'>Process</span></a><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"working\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Working with Guy Herschell Architects'>Working with Guy Herschell Architects</span></a><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"profile\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Practice Profile'>Practice Profile</span></a>"

// Feasibility Content
working_process[3]="<p>For small commercial and retail projects and  most residential houses an indication of feasibility will become apparent in  the Information Gathering and Preliminary Design stages. There are circumstances  however, where the potential commercial feasibility, design requirement  feasibility or planning feasibility of a project requires specific and separate  investigation. Where this is allowed for in an agreement of service, I may,</p><ul><li>Review specific  procedural documentation relevant to the function of the building and produce  planning diagrams or structure plans to establish an indication of the likely  feasibility of project, expected accommodation or specific outcome. For example  in child care facility where specific Ministry  of Education design requirements and guidelines exist.</li></ul><ul><li>Produce feasibility  diagrams or structure plans in order to assist you establish an indication of  potential financial feasibility of a new commercial building.</li></ul><ul><li>Review procedural  documentation relevant to the participation in an environmental accreditation  scheme and evaluate a potential level of compliance and an indicative rating  for the building.</li></ul><ul><li>Assess aspects of planning feasibility to  require specialist planning guidance, and advise you as to the need for, and  assist in the engagement of specialist planning, landscape or traffic  consultants. For example for new buildings or change of use to existing  buildings having significant physical, social, heritage or landscape impact and  likely to require a notified resource consent.</li></ul><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"process\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Process'>Process</span></a><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"working\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Working with Guy Herschell Architects'>Working with Guy Herschell Architects</span></a><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"profile\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Practice Profile'>Practice Profile</span></a>"

// Preliminary Design Sketch Design Contnet
working_process[4]="<p>I believe that the relationship between architecture  and site is an investigation that searches for the existential qualities of the  contextual surroundings, natural environment and  elemental living, through a process of discovery, measurement and translation<strong>.</strong></p><p>A handful of key elements and concepts unique  to your site and project will be distilled down and drawn out in discussion, drawing  and modeling to form a narrative which will guide the  realization of the building design.</p><p>I will endevour to,</p><ul><li>Discover the existentantial qualities of your site,  through photographs, sketches, and drawings, exploring the features, furrows and folds of the land, the man made pathways, tracery, textures, structures and habitation. I will watch the changes in the  qualities and colours of the site and the light as it transforms through out  the day. I will divine the Ley of the land and seek to understand the history,  spirit and the nature of the place.</li></ul><ul><li>Measure  and analyze the aspect of your site, orientation to  sun and views, set backs and envelopes imposed  by planning constraints, climatic conditions, environmental  and privacy considerations and services requirements.</li></ul><ul><li>Translate the way you want to live and work  into spatial  planning and design form. I will establish the  relationships between and connection of the desired spaces or activities and organize and arrange your physical, living or programmatic  requirements. </li></ul><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"process\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Process'>Process</span></a><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"working\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Working with Guy Herschell Architects'>Working with Guy Herschell Architects</span></a><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"profile\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Practice Profile'>Practice Profile</span></a>"

// Developed Design Content
working_process[5]="<p>I will,</p><ul><li>Refine and consolidate the  design decisions implemented in the preliminary design.  Early concepts and planning will be resolved into a developed design through three dimensional computer  modeling. I will work with you to develop the materials and finishes  and finalize the relationship of building to context and planning constraints.</li></ul><ul><li>For new buildings, I will advise that you should obtain a preliminary cost estimate from a quantity surveyor separately of my service and will assist your selection of consultant and their separate engagement. This is in order to attribute a working value to the developing design. The estimate will based on  preliminary design drawings and include the core building construction, indicative  finishes and specified site works. It may include estimated amounts for certain  items like kitchen appliances and lighting and joinery. It will generally exclude  furnishings, drapes, curtains, pendant lighting and exterior landscaping.</li></ul><ul><li>For alterations, where you are assuming a greater control of the cost management yourslelves i may advise that a selected contractor may provide a preliminary estimate of the value of the work for your purposes.</li></ul>In addition, if allowed for in our agrement for service, I may,<ul><li>Apply for a council Resource  Consent on your behalf, or brief and liaise with your specialist planning  consultants.</li></ul><ul><li>Provide graphic  renderings of the building or compile a report booklet that can be used for obtaining  finance, advertising purposes or securing tenants.</li></ul><p>Through  out the developing design, I will endevour to evaluate my work against your requirements and instructions. It is important any changes you would like to  make are finalized in the developed design. Changes requested in the  documentation and construction process, are likely to require re-evaluation of  decisions previously agreed and additional work to effect.</p><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"process\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Process'>Process</span></a><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"working\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Working with Guy Herschell Architects'>Working with Guy Herschell Architects</span></a><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"profile\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Practice Profile'>Practice Profile</span></a>"

// Detailed Design
working_process[6]="<p>I will,</p><ul><li>Produce a set of contract  documents which will describe how the design developed in the previous stages is  to be built, the materials to be used and the processes to be followed. The  contract documentation will likely comprise the architectural plans elevations and  details, building specification, hardware and finishes schedules, compliance  information and  maintenance  documentation. These documents outline the scope, extent and requirements for  the construction of the building and will form part of the building contract  between you and your builder during the construction of the building.</li></ul><ul><li>Coordinate the output  from your separate consultants and incorporate their information in the  contract documentation. </li></ul><ul><li>Submit the contract  documentation to council for a building consent </li></ul><p>The actual scope of work and expected output  of each stage will depend on the provisions in our agreement. I have a number of contract document sets for previously documented  buildings that I can review with you.</p><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"process\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Process'>Process</span></a><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"working\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Working with Guy Herschell Architects'>Working with Guy Herschell Architects</span></a><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"profile\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Practice Profile'>Practice Profile</span></a>"

// Procurement Contnet
working_process[7]="<ul><li>Discuss your preferred procurement method and  building contract with you.</li></ul><br><p>In addition, if allowed in our agrement for service, I may,</p><ul><li>Assist you in inviting potential builders and contractors to review the contract documentation and express an interest in  providing a price for the work.</li></ul><ul><li>Meet with you and your selected builders to discuss their approach to your project and their respective availability.</li></ul><ul><li>Provide contract documentation to tenderers in  order that they may price the work.</li></ul><ul><li>Answer questions from tenderers and issue notices to  tenderers. </li></ul><ul><li>Analyze the tenders received and make a  recommendation to you.</li></ul><ul><li>Notify the successful and unsuccessful tenderers.</li></ul><ul>       <li>Prepare contract documents for signing by the  Client and Contractor.</li></ul><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"process\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Process'>Process</span></a><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"working\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Working with Guy Herschell Architects'>Working with Guy Herschell Architects</span></a><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"profile\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Practice Profile'>Practice Profile</span></a>"

// Contract Observation Content
working_process[8]="During the contract observation stage of the project the planning, drawings and decisions that have been made throughout the design process will be realized in the construction of the building.<br><br>It is vital, that in all cases, Guy Herschell Architects are engaged to provide a degree of contract observation to work produced by Guy Herschell Architects. There are various levels of involvement suitable to the varying size and nature of the project which I will discuss with you together with some specific conditions of my agreement covering this phase of the work.<br><br>In general, the construction will governed by a contract between you and the builder, which will among other things outline your responsibilities to the contractor and the contractors responsibilities to you in regard to the construction of the work.<br><br>In the case of new houses I recommend that the building work be carried out under the NZIA Standard Conditions of Contract, which makes specific allowance for the Architect’s role in observing the building work. There are also other contracts which allow for administration by the owner or an agent of the owner such as a project manager which may be suitable in some situations.<br><br>Where engaged to do so, in accordance with our agreement for service, I will advise you and act as your agent through out the construction process and in addition I will administer the contact between you and the builder. During the construction the Contractor will, among other things, be responsible for project managing and quality controlling the work, executing the work in accordance with the contract documents and ensuring the safety and security of the site.<br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"process\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Process'>Process</span></a><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"working\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Working with Guy Herschell Architects'>Working with Guy Herschell Architects</span></a><br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"profile\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Return to Practice Profile'>Practice Profile</span></a>" 

// Guy Herschell Architects Profile Content
mainmenu_content[0]="<table width='700' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' class='info_style'><tr><td width='235'><img src='http://www.guyherschell.com/common/menu/profile0.jpg' width='235' height='400'></td><td width='30'>&nbsp;</td><td width='435'>Guy Herschell Architects was formed in 2006 and is based in Nelson, New Zealand. <br><br>The practice is committed to producing crafted homes and highly creative environmentally friendly architecture.<br><br>I offer a personalized service and bring energy, enthusiasm and a fresh approach to my work. I accept each new project as an exciting individual challenge and relish the opportunity to collaborate with clients, specialists and artists to achieve unique and articulate design solutions.<br><br>I am interested in developing thoughtful cutting edge ideas reflected in buildings that are meaningful and legible on many levels. I enjoy using materials in innovative ways and rethinking existing methodologies to create new design solutions. I delight in creating architecture that is unique, timeless, sometimes alternative, but always personal and founded in a meaningful relationship with the land.<br><br>I returned to New Zealand to live in Nelson in 2003, having travelled extensively, exploring historical and current trends in architecture and working in the London studio of Foster and Partners. <br><br>I am a Registered Architect and a member of the New Zealand Institute of Architects. Professional qualifications I hold are Bachelor of Building Science, Victoria University 1993, and Bachelor of Architecture, Victoria University 1997.<br><br><a href='#' onclick = 'do_info(\"working\")'><span class = 'info_styleh' title='Working with Guy Herschell Architects'>Working with Guy Herschell Architects</span></a></td></tr></table>"

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mainmenu_content[1]="<table width='700' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' class='info_style'><tr><td width='145'><img src='http://www.guyherschell.com/images/101B9.jpg' width='145' height='400'></td><td width='30'>&nbsp;</td><td width='525'>Guy Herschell Architects believe in creating environmentally meaningful architecture.<br><br>Buildings which are derived from their surroundings and are sensitive to the environment return greater value, last longer, foster increased productivity and are enjoyed by the people who inhabit them.<br><br>I recognize that timber preservatives used in buildings are inherently toxic and have been actively involved in submissions and discussions which have resulted in reduction of timber treatment in the industry.<br><br>Sustainability is not simply about conservation, energy and technology but also about strengthening human relationships and building local resilience. I am passionately supportive of the local skill base and locally available products and materials.</td></tr></table>"

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mainmenu_content[2]="Guy Herschell Architects Ltd.<br>Cnr Green St & Golf Road<br>Tahunanui 7011<br><br>P.O Box 883<br>Nelson 7040<br>New Zealand<br><br>Tel. +64 3 5488671<br>TeL. +64 21 2034591<br>Email. <a href='mailto:"+name+"@"+domain+"' title='Contact Guy Herschell Architects'>"+name+"@"+domain+"</a><br><br>V"+web_version+" All rights reserved. Except where otherwise indicated, all photographs, drawings and content of this website remain the sole property of Guy Herschell Architects Ltd and may not be used or reproduced without consent.<br><br>Follow us<br><br><div align='left'><a href='http://www.facebook.com/pages/Guy-Herschell-Architects/125116840928724' target='_blank'><img src='http://www.guyherschell.com/common/buttons/fb.jpg' alt='facebook' width='65' height='65'></a></div>"

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