Park House
By Studio Pacific Architecture
Set in the picturesque town of Wānaka, this family home embodies simplicity and warmth, drawing inspiration from the rugged charm of mountain huts while maintaining a refined aesthetic.
Designed to accommodate multiple families during holidays, the home offers comfortable, sunlit spaces that promote relaxation and tranquillity, ensuring a memorable stay for residents and guests alike.
The exterior features horizontal timber cladding juxtaposed with corrugated sheet steel, skilfully articulated to add depth and texture. Inside, exposed timber linings and neutral finishes create a backdrop that celebrates the play of light throughout the day.
The house is divided into pavilions, allowing for both communal gatherings and intimate moments. These pavilions, connected by a gallery, are arranged across the site to create sheltered outdoor areas and a harmonious blend of shaded and sunny spaces that can be used as the seasons change. The built forms also help to shelter the garden from prevailing winds.
Carefully aligned glazing offers glimpses of the surrounding landscape whilst framing specific moments of beauty and capturing the changing light. The landscaping is intentionally restrained and sufficiently spacious for the planting to grow around the architecture.
From the street, the home presents a captivating facade that references the local context while showcasing its own distinctive form. With its thoughtful design and integration with the natural environment, this mountain-inspired retreat offers a unique and memorable living experience.
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Shaping Our Pacific Future – We are a cross-disciplinary architecture, interior, landscape and urban design practice shaping a more sustainable and people-centric built environment across the buildings, neighbourhoods, cities, and landscapes of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Studio Pacific was established in 1992 by friends and colleagues Evžen Novák, Nick Barratt-Boyes, and Stephen McDougall. After working in the UK and Europe, the three architects were drawn back home by a shared desire to form a collaborative and innovative practice in Te Whanganui-a-Tara – Wellington.
They opened an architecture studio ‘of the Pacific’, applying their creativity to projects that engaged with, and elevated, context and culture. Over the years, this has grown into a compelling manifesto to shape our collective Pacific future, where people and the planet are at the heart of our built environment.
Today, we are a team of around 100 – including architects, urban designers, landscape architects, interior designers and business professionals. We bring diversity in thinking and design, and a democratic culture ensures clever ideas come from all corners of the practice, not necessarily from those who have been here the longest.
Open-minded, collaborative and creative, our practice has evolved into a leading and award-winning business, working on a wide range of exciting projects that seek to make Aotearoa New Zealand a better place.