Selected Project
Hahei House
This is a holiday home overlooking the panorama of Hahei Beach, Coromandel and its adjacent islands. This modest proposition needed to provide an international couple with a young family a place to retreat from their busy lifestyle. The environment created and language of materials was to be simplistic to provide an architecture which did not complete with the dramatic views and natural landscape surrounding and beyond. The dwelling required living spaces for the various conditions of entertaining and weather patterns. It was also a requirement to easily secure on leaving. The solution was to provide an architecture which frames and encompasses the view while providing a dwelling that shelters and contains its occupants. The notion of occupying a cantilevered platform within the view while being anchored back into the land to the rear, provides a simplistic connection of architecture and landscape. The form and spaces created between elegantly provides an environment for both entertaining guests and enjoying the tranquillity of the surrounds.
- Category
- Housing
- Location
- Waikato/Bay of Plenty
- Year
- 2005
