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Bramasole
Waimauku, New Zealand
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Bramasole
Waimauku, New Zealand
Project Featured on Dec 22, 2016
Firm
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2014
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
The site’s previous existence was a market garden with shelterbelts forming large outdoor rooms. Our client then planted
part of the site with vineyards and fenced off paddocks for horses. He built a barn and a dressage arena.
The house presented an opportunity to bring order to the large site.
Some division was needed between the private home and the public dressage arena.
Bi-axial landscaping elements of Gabion baskets were employed to divide the site into quadrants.
The gabion basket walls start low demarcating entry points and rise up to form the anchor wall of the house.
The house has 3 positive elements with negative spaces between. These positive elements house the Lania, the garage and
the bedrooms. They are articulated as simple box forms with weathered timber planked skins referencing agrarian crates.
The giant crates form the edges to the negative spaces and frame views of the site.
The primary negative space is the living room pavilion situated between the Lania and bedroom box. A floating roof caps the
living room tipping up toward the south light and allowing a view of the tree top foliage. It is intended that the expansive roof
gives the building a scale appropriate to the scale of the land.
The living pavilion extends west to form a terrace and east to trap a sheltered courtyard with tree and water feature. To the
north a large sun terrace.
The house is elevated on a blockwork plinth to lift it out of the potentially soggy homogenous land. This height allows the
boxes to float, gives the occupants a view over the vineyards and brings them closer to the eye height of the horseman.
The plinth, intersected and edged by the gabions serves to blind the positive and negative spaces.
part of the site with vineyards and fenced off paddocks for horses. He built a barn and a dressage arena.
The house presented an opportunity to bring order to the large site.
Some division was needed between the private home and the public dressage arena.
Bi-axial landscaping elements of Gabion baskets were employed to divide the site into quadrants.
The gabion basket walls start low demarcating entry points and rise up to form the anchor wall of the house.
The house has 3 positive elements with negative spaces between. These positive elements house the Lania, the garage and
the bedrooms. They are articulated as simple box forms with weathered timber planked skins referencing agrarian crates.
The giant crates form the edges to the negative spaces and frame views of the site.
The primary negative space is the living room pavilion situated between the Lania and bedroom box. A floating roof caps the
living room tipping up toward the south light and allowing a view of the tree top foliage. It is intended that the expansive roof
gives the building a scale appropriate to the scale of the land.
The living pavilion extends west to form a terrace and east to trap a sheltered courtyard with tree and water feature. To the
north a large sun terrace.
The house is elevated on a blockwork plinth to lift it out of the potentially soggy homogenous land. This height allows the
boxes to float, gives the occupants a view over the vineyards and brings them closer to the eye height of the horseman.
The plinth, intersected and edged by the gabions serves to blind the positive and negative spaces.
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