Mountain Range House
Brightwater 
Completed 2010 
  NZ Wood Timber Design Awards 2010 - Residential Architectural Excellence - Highly Commended
Finalist in the Trans-Tasman Timber Design Awards 2011
NZIA Nelson Marlborough Architecture Award 2011 (Residential)

Situated beneath the Richmond Ranges south of Nelson, this pavilion provides new living environments for the more important members of a flamboyant inter-generational family. Whereas the family's existing farmhouse holds tight contained spaces within perimeter walls, the new pavilion provides open and elongated transitional spaces to connect living with landscape.
Like the mountain range above them, the new house folds and concertinas in silhouette to allow a single large space to be articulated through volume rather than between walls. The timber ceiling lifts and shapes in parallel against the timber floor, flooding the space between with warmth and an ever changing light, whilst defining connected sitting, dining and kitchen areas within a single communal space for all the family to converge and spread out within.


Published

Urbis Issue 57
NZ Wood Case Study

Houses New Zealand Issue 18 pg 23
Architecture NZ 1:2012 pg 44
Archdaily.com 27.4.12

 

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