Bach with 2 roofs
Golden Bay 
Completed 2007 
 

NZIA Local Award for Residential Architecture 2008
NZ Wood Timber Design Awards 2008 - Residential Architectural Excellence (Highly Commended)
Shortlisted for HOME NZ's Home of the Year Award 2008

 

Three small buildings and the spaces between provide a second home for a young family within a forest clearing overlooking Golden Bay.
Two buildings are inhabited: the larger for the family, the smaller for friends or the kids, with peripheral decks to connect to the clearing and fly roofing to protect from the eucalypt trees and collect rainwater. The third building provides independent amenities to the external spaces which are controlled in volume by the placement of buildings within and to the edge of the clearing, allowing camping, friends, frisbee...
Materials are chosen for their blending to the surrounding bush and dappled forest light.

 
Published - Timber Design Australasia Summer 2009 cover, pg 7-9
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