2011 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Waiheke Island House
With its poetically generated arrangement of volumes and forms, this house, designed as a retreat from work, offers a range of inventive and enjoyable spatial experiences and a generous and effortless relationship to the outdoors. The composition is assured, and rather quirky, too. The house offers several extraordinary moments: the �thinking room', a double-height space for music and contemplation so arresting that one's breathing changes upon entry; the guest sleeping areas, tiny screened spaces reminiscent of Ryokan architecture and also suggestive of tree huts; and the brightly yellow main bedroom. This is a house that engages with the spirit as well as all the senses.
- Practice
- Mitchell Stout Dodd Architects Ltd
- Category
- Residential Architecture - Houses
- Location
