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Contemporary three-bedroom dwelling designed to maximize breathtaking views of farmland, bush, and ocean, featuring a harmonious palette of timber, stone, and steel that reflects the surrounding natural environment.
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
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- Contemporary
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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