2025 Auckland Architecture Awards Winner
Muriwai Farmhouse
In response to a gently eastwards sloping site, this generous house steps and fragments to reduce its expansive plan and offer multiple perspectives of its rural setting. From arrival, the journey through the house is broken into half-metre intervals before arriving at a natural amphitheatre. Deceptively large and accommodating an extensive art and sculpture collection, this is a house that avoids pretense. The fractured plan creates multiple in-between spaces which both shelter and enclose the inhabitants, while principal spaces are connected by linear galleries that defer and extend discovery of the house.
- Practice
- Mercer and Mercer Architects Ltd
- Category
- Housing
- Location
- Auckland
