Apple Shed

To achieve the clients’ wish for “no wasted space”, the interlocking shed forms are organised into an efficient plan. The high gable ceilings allow living and bedroom spaces to open vertically, and hall spaces, laundry etc with lower flat ceilings, playing with the notion of “compression and release”. The building is blanketed in bandsawn New Zealand macrocarpa; the light coloured, raw and naturally aging timber, and raw galvanised roof, grounding the building in its rural context through texture and materiality. This lightness and texture are brought to the interior, in a more dressed fashion, with a birch ‘plywood living box,’ creating the warm and welcoming family home that the owners had envisioned.