& Sustainable Principles
Build Your Super Home
Steve Hughes designs super houses. Homes for New Zealanders that are healthier and more comfortable to live in, won’t grow mould, use minimal energy to heat and cool, and are beautiful, inspiring spaces, built using sustainable and local resources.
Steve is an architectural designer with Passive House training and over twenty-five years’ experience in design and construction.
His latest architectural design, a Passive House Premium certified home, is the smallest Passive House Premium in the world and the only fully off-grid Passive House in New Zealand.
Steve and his family moved from Auckland to the Coromandel Peninsula in 2021 to live their dream life... To build a beautiful, off-grid, passive home for themselves, and live off the land by growing a lush organic garden.
Steve is friendly, organised, and creative. His expertise in architecture and high performance building surpasses many in the field. He is ready to transform the vision for your dream home into reality.
Architecture
Passive House
Project Management
Services
Steves' qualifications in architecture and experience in construction and project management provide a unique set of skills to resolve design concepts seamlessly into built homes.
Architecture
Where we live, how we live and how we participate with our surrounding environment influences the quality of our lives. Steve combines aesthetics, functionality and sustainability to craft architecture that responds to your vision and budget. Creating a building that integrates into your local environment with a sense of craft, precision, and elegance.
Passive House
Passive House incorporates specific design with the natural environment of your site to make your home a guardian of your health and a monument to sustainability. Through design modelling, the performance of the house can be calculated to provide you a beautiful, comfortable, and energy-efficient home. There is no longer a need to burn fossil fuels to power the spaces where we live, work and play!
Project Management
Offering independent and strategic advice to guide your project from inception through the design, consenting and construction processes, to completion, including procurement of Contractors and Contract administration. Utilising proven project management tools and controls Steve can deliver a viable project both in terms of functionality and budget.
Verdant Lane Development
Maria’s Passive House
Ponsonby Central Re-development
Sargeson Apartments
Build Good Architecture Studio
Inspiration
Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
Zaha Hadid
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space… On the one hand it’s about shelter, but it’s also about pleasure
Peter Drucker
The best way to predict future is to create it
Super Team
Behind every great person is the family that love & support them.
Amy Jane Todd
Ruby Hughes
Turbo & Pipi Aroha
Check out Steve’s background, expertise and experience in his recent chat with Matthew Cutler-Welsh for the Passive House Podcast, who talk with leaders, practitioners, and change-makers in the global Passive House movement. Interview starts at 08.40.