Onemana Gateway

Night view of Onemana Gateway, custom curved glulam portals and glulam purlins at a beachside retreat in New Zealand.

PRODUCTS

Custom curved glulam portals, glulam purlins


LOCATION

Onemana, Coromandel Peninsula

BUILDER

Latham Construction 2004 Ltd

ARCHITECT

Stevens Lawson Architects

DATE

2023


An outstanding statement piece to a beachside retreat, this gateway creates a visually stunning entrance to the property. The customer wanted a single piece portal with no knee joint which required curving 7.2 meter long beams for a total of 26 portal arms.

In order to meet the designer’s specification for the radius of the knee joint, we had to machine profile the inner curve. In addition, we machined pockets in the beams during manufacturing to ensure rapid assembly of the battens and quick installation of the structure on site.

Sunset view of Onemana Gateway, custom curved glulam portals and glulam purlins at a beachside retreat in New Zealand.
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