Matakahi

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Mangawhai, New Zealand

Nestled in an amphitheatre like landscape, Matakahi has been designed to celebrate its beautiful and unique environment, engaging with the established native forest and garden setting.

The design retrospectively named ‘Matakahi’, Māori for ‘wedge’ used for felling & breaking up timber, draws reference to local historic Māori cultural forestry practices, while the low maintenance all encompassing corrugate cladding draws reference to the surrounding rural farming utility buildings, and sheds.

Practicality, simplicity, a sense of warmth, security & retreat sit at the centre of this design. The building’s wedge like form divides itself into two pavilions sitting below the continuous tapering roof plane. The pavilions include one open plan living space, opening out onto the covered exterior deck, while the second pavilion accommodates two bedrooms, separate toilet & bathroom.

The home consists of solid timber CLT construction where the untreated interior timber creates a healthy, warm, comfortable & resilient environment.

Area: 78m²  |  Type: Residential, New Build
Year: 2018  |  Construction: Makers Fabrication   

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Wellington

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Engaging with the latest technologies allows us to be innovative and accurate in our working, planning, budgeting, timing and construction methods. We truly believe the design and building process has many areas to be challenged and improved. We also understand that architecture isn’t just the culmination of an idea or concept but it must be responsive to the environments of; location, client needs + dreams, financial and cultural positions.  Sensitively bringing these attributes together shapes, guides and balances each project’s scope, generating a unique set of criteria for the design to emerge and develop from.

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