Box Living

Box Living produces bespoke architecturally designed homes. Box uses a componentised building system which allows them to adapt to any site or client brief while offering certainty of price and the benefit of high-class architecture at less cost. Their approach reduces costs of design by up to 80%; shortens construction time; reduces waste; and increases value for money. The build process is efficient and precise, using tried and tested details. Materials are low in embodied energy, locally manufactured, and proven for NZ conditions.

At the outset, Box Living recognised that designing and building homes today hasn’t evolved over the last 100 years. It’s still wasteful, imprecise, poorly designed, and driven by profit margins at the expense of being well-designed, durable, effectively built, and efficient to run. They believed in a better way. It required a step change in the way homes are designed and built. BOX has developed pre-fabricated standard components which can be centrally produced and assembled on site. The key has been to develop a system that is flexible enough to respond to site and brief, yet efficient to put together, while giving certainty of cost.