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Architects: RTA Studio, Richard Naish
- Area: 400 m²
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Photographs:Whitt Preston
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Manufacturers: James Hardie
Text description provided by the architects. The house is located on a promontory on a Waikato farm overlooking vast limestone bluffs and rolling pasture. The house was commissioned by a young Auckland family with a desire to create a rural retreat to escape the city with immediate and extended family and/or friends. Drawing from the rural vernacular, a collection of forms was conceived to engage the local environment.
Three open ended pitched roofed pavilions were arranged to accommodate the three distinct functions of the house: living, family sleeping and guest sleeping with flat roofed service pods linking them together. This arrangement serves to capture views, both intimate and vast as well as provide a variety of sheltered outdoor living spaces, either private or communal. This allows the house to offer a variety of separated private spaces or communal entertainment spaces.
