Wanaka House
By Lovell and O'Connell Architects
With a passion for music, food, entertaining and their enjoyment of the Wanaka vistas, the architectural brief centred around a Central Otago couple wanting to celebrate life in their golden years.
The dramatic landscape is ever present and the house connects to this and responds to the varying extremes of the local climate. The playful roof forms and design of the house draws inspiration from the original bivouac shelters pitched into the tough schist terrains of Central Otago. The house is conceived as a frame set into the land over which fabric is draped. An in-situ concrete wall runs through west corner offering a means to anchor the undulating roof within the site whist also offering a practical thermal mass element to heat and cool with.
This project was a finalist for 2014 Home Magazine Home of the year, and recipient of a 2016 NZIA New Zealand Award for Domestic Architecture.
Click here to read the Home New Zealand 'Home of the Year' 2014 Article
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Each architectural project we create evolves holistically from the poetics of landscape & craft, cultural context, sound technical understanding, budget pragmatics & client aspirations.
Founded in 2013 by Registered Architects Ana O’Connell and Tim Lovell, Lo’CA is an NZIA Architectural Practice based on Wellington’s south coast, working across a variety of scales, throughout New Zealand.
Our design process is informed by a strong collaborative approach within the studio and the partnerships we foster with clients, consultants and builders..
With an open-minded approach and clear design intent, we create thoughtfully nuanced buildings that celebrate people’s lives and connect to the New Zealand landscape.