Mt Koinga Residence
By CUSTANCE
Set on a dramatic vineyard site in Central Otago, this new 375m2 home provides a spectacular outlook across Mt Koinga.
Traditional forms are combined with contemporary detailing. Two stone-clad wings form the main vertical elements of the house, and are connected by a copper-clad, central body that houses the master suite, two guest bedrooms and a bathroom. Hallways between the structures are more intimate with low ceilings providing a pleasing contrast to the openness of the high raked ceilings within the living spaces and bedrooms. A basement cellar is located below the entrance gallery.
An honest and robust palette of natural materials are used throughout. Copper cladding and traditional Central Otago Schist flow from exterior to interior articulating form and providing cohesive simplicity. Re-purposed railway sleepers have been lovingly restored, showcasing the main post and beam structure of the roof line within the interior.
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Over 30 years Custance has become a respected and multi-award winning practice. Using our collective knowledge, experience and empathy, we have created spaces that transform people’s lives and better equip them to accommodate change.
The tools we traditionally use are strategic planning, architecture, interior design and industrial design, however we have learned to wield them in different ways. We have developed these tools to allow people and organisations to experience space that is fully human and fully alive; space to live well, to create, to innovate and to grow – to enable face to face contact in a way that digital space does not.
Clients return to us in both New Zealand and for 14 years now, Australia, where we’ve built a multi-disciplinary, trans-Tasman practice that focuses on people and their well being, not just the places we build for them. We believe in human touch and those two words hold the secret of our longevity.
Before we begin any commission, whether a home , a corporate interior, a new building, an urban master plan or a strategic vision, we begin by discovering answers to fundamental human questions. Who? What? Why? For us these come before the traditional ‘where’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ of the brief and build specifications. They help us see beyond immediate needs. They help us understand people and design spaces that have enduring value.