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New Homes
Bespoke residential design shaped around your site, priorities, lifestyle and future plans.
Thoughtful residential design, grounded in real-world experience.
From new homes and renovations to relocated houses, we turn ideas into considered designs and coordinated documentation for the next stage of your project.
Thoughtful Design. Practical Delivery.
The practice
Design that has to work in the real world
15+
years of industry experience
With over 15 years of industry experience, the focus is on clear communication and steady guidance from feasibility and concept design through to building consent documentation.
Nator Architecture works exclusively in residential design — new homes, renovations and additions, and second-hand house relocations. Each project begins with the site and the way you want to live, then holds that intent through the least glamorous parts of the process, where good ideas are usually lost.
You get a designer who explains the trade-offs plainly, keeps buildability and compliance in view from the first sketch, and prepares documentation the next people in the chain can actually work from.
Services
What Nator Architecture delivers
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Renovations & Additions
Rework and extend existing homes with a coherent design that improves flow, function and everyday living.
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Relocated Homes
Design support for second-hand house relocation projects, including adapting the home to its new site and requirements.
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Concept & Feasibility
Early-stage investigation, options and concept design to clarify what may be possible before detailed documentation begins.
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Consent Documentation
Coordinated architectural drawings and information prepared for building consent submission, including liaison with council and the consultants engaged for your project.
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3D Visualisation
Renders and virtual views that make spaces, form and material choices easier to understand before construction.
Process
Four stages, clearly signposted
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Discover
We discuss your goals, site, priorities, budget expectations and the information already available.
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Explore
We test feasibility and develop a concept direction, using plans and 3D views where appropriate.
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Develop
The preferred design is refined and coordinated with the specialist input required for the project.
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Document
We prepare the agreed drawing package and support the building-consent submission process.
Council assessment, requests for further information and consent approval timeframes are determined by the relevant authority and sit outside our control.
Selected work
The Signature Orbit Gallery
The project gallery is being prepared
Completed projects are published here once the project details and photography permissions have been confirmed with each owner. In the meantime, we are happy to walk you through relevant work directly.
Architectural visuals
Architectural visuals from the drawing board
Design-stage architectural visuals used to test form, orientation and outdoor living before documentation begins. Spin the ring and click any visual to enlarge it.
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These images are architectural visualisations produced during design, not photographs of completed buildings.
In print
Published feature
The Hillside Residence in Tauranga was the subject of a printed architecture feature — “Sitting on top of the hill” — covering the site response, the linked living pavilions and the floor plan.
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Tearsheets reproduced from the original printed feature. Publication imagery and text remain the property of the publisher and are shown here as a record of the project.
Why Nator Architecture
What makes the difference
Design-led, not template-led
Every project starts from your site and your brief rather than a repeated plan, so the result suits how you actually want to live.
Practical from the first sketch
Buildability, compliance and cost implications are considered early, which keeps the design honest and reduces surprises later.
Clear communication
You will always know what stage you are at, what is needed from you next, and what is happening behind the scenes.
Relocation experience
Second-hand house relocation is a specialist area with its own constraints, and it is a routine part of the work here.
Seen before it is committed
3D views are used so decisions are made with a real understanding of space, form and materials.
One connected team
Design sits alongside the wider Timmy Nator work in homes and sourcing, which keeps coordination straightforward.
Questions
Before you enquire
Start your project
Nator Architecture enquiry
Bring your site, your plans or just an idea. Tell us where the project is, what stage you are at and what you are hoping to achieve — you will get an honest read on what is possible and what it involves.
Part of something wider
Nator Architecture sits alongside Future Living and Global Sourcing, so design, delivery and supply can be coordinated under one roof when a project calls for it.