By Red Architecture
Brief: Provide a modest family home that capitulates surrounding native bush while providing an interior space to suit a young family.
A heavy, minimal façade was created with careful shifts between planes which provides an approach to the home that anticipates an experience beyond. Once inside a backdrop of native bush scenes appear through windows like pictures.
Solid brick walls to the exterior add texture and warm color to the utilitarian black steel siding.
Light palates maintaining the brick but also including concrete and plaster line the interior spaces.
Founded in 2009, we are a boutique architectural practice specialising in residential housing, commercial buildings and fitouts. We have been recognised for our work at the Architectural Designers New Zealand (ADNZ) awards, including the Supreme and People’s Choice awards for ‘Modern Barn Form’, a residential barn home located in rural Whatawhata.