Commercial - Resene

Koru House
Wellington
The Wellington District Child Protection
Team is a multi agency unit that consists
of staff from New Zealand Police, Child
Youth and Family, Hutt Valley DHB,
Relationship Services and agencies such
as Barnados. The fit-out was designed to
provide a unified workspace to better
facilitate communication between
agencies investigating child abuse, and
supporting the families.
It was important that the look and
feel of this facility didn’t identify with
any of the individual stakeholders to
avoid any negative preconceptions the
children and families may have. The main
colour scheme needed to be vibrant and
engaging for children, but also work well
in an office environment.
The fit-out also provides the evidential
child interview suites for the Wellington
Region. Each suite consists of a family
room, interview room and monitoring
room located off separate corridors. To
capture the imaginations of the children,
and aid in way-finding, each suite was
given a theme and an identifying colour
scheme. For example, the toetoe suite
had a beach theme, and has a blue
feature wall, sand coloured feature
carpet, and beach themed art created by
a primary school aged child.
Architectural Specifier: Anna Windsor,
Vorstermans Architects
www.architecture.gen.nz
Building Contractor: Mainzeal Interiors
Painting Contractor Withers Painters Ltd
Products Used: Resene Zylone Sheen
Colours Used: Resene Alaska, Resene
Beyond, Resene Cut Glass, Resene
Flourish, Resene Half Tuna, Resene
Koromiko, Resene Koru, Resene
Moonbeam, Resene Quarter Rice Cake
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Resene Total Colour Commercial Interior Office Maestro Award
Alaska
Beyond
Cut Glass
Flourish
Half Tuna
Koromiko
Koru
Moonbeam
Quarter
Rice Cake