Waiatarua House

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Waiatarua House

Firm

Hamish Monk Architecture

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2012

SIZE

25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

The brief was for a new house on a challenging, steep site
in the Orakei creek gully. One of the design challenges was to insert a bold
(in size and placement) intervention into a sensitive bush reserve whilst still
maintaining a sense of modesty and poetic. The desire was to seek out a quiet
architectural expression, one that is devoid of excessive articulation and
noise; a silent witness to its surroundings. Conceived as sculptural components the design
plays on purity and scale of the program articulated through three simple
elemental forms that step down the site towards the creek - the roof of one
floor creating a level platform for the next. From the point of entry the house
offers a range of spatial experiences across the width of the floor plate;
transitioning from a hunkered almost subterranean position in the landscape to
an elevated position perched in the tree canopy.

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