2018 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Kawakawa House
A sensitive understanding of local conditions underpins the interpretation of a holiday home as a retreat that balances the poetry of shelter and the provision of prospect. The building, elevated under a pōhutukawa canopy, is as much tree house as beach house; opening to the sky and looking out to sea, it draws in light through a deftly-detailed clerestory beneath a lovely folded roof. Habitation is organised around an internal courtyard that that nicely alludes to the small glade the house occupies. Clarity of expression, mastery of materials, and connectedness to the natural world characterise this very accomplished house.
- Practice
- Herbst Architects Ltd
- Category
- Housing
- Location
- Auckland
