Waipu Coastal Haven
The brief was to design a three-bedroom dwelling that would optimise the magnificent views our clients’ selected site offered over a 47 hectare area of exposed farmland, protected bush and open ocean. A palette of timber stone and steel variously defines the built forms, taking its colour cue from the surrounding natural environment and creating a series of spaces in which our clients could create a personal haven in harmony with these stunning natural surroundings.
Site Manager: Oliver Tuck Construction
This home was to serve as their permanent residence where they could create a personal haven in harmony with these stunning natural surroundings. The house design consciously echoes the experience of the site approach where progression through a sequence of high ridges and bush covered valleys offers mere glimpses to Waipu Cove and beyond.
Within the house form this concept is expressed by denying the full view from the approach and the entry gallery. Instead, its drama is gradually revealed / framed during progression through the various spaces to its final impressive exposé in the private living room and snug.
At the approach to the house, a stark juxtaposition of rusticated stone walls against vertical timber cladding, defines the entranceway. These materials reappear as a recurrent combination in the internal spaces where, set against curving white plastered walls, they create warmth and serenity, while gently defining the transition from one space to another.
An over-sailing pavilion-roof connects the living and bedroom ‘pods’, the latter further differentiated and enhanced by its split level location and orientation.
Externally, a palette of timber, stone and steel defines the built forms, taking its colour cue from the surrounding natural environment.
And then, where the house finally opens out to invite connection with the unique coastal environment, sheltered outdoor areas are carefully integrated to provide requisite protection from the elements on this very exposed site.
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Salmond Reed Architects are an ward winning multi-disciplinary architectural design, and heritage conservation practice.
Founded in 1993 by the late NZIA Gold Medal recipient Jeremy Salmond. We bring over thirty years’ of nationwide experience and expertise to your project, whether it involves the sensitive adaptation of a character building or the design of a contemporary structure in a sensitive environmental setting (or, indeed, a combination of both.)
Directors Rosalie Stanley, Lloyd Macomber, and Philip Graham, lead a staff of around twenty talented registered architects and graduates, chartered building surveyors, heritage consultants and support staff, all of whom share a resolve to deliver optimum project solutions to meet client aspirations and budgets.
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