Six houses · 2013 – 2024
Six houses, one hour of the lake.
Every house the studio has completed, in the order it was built. Each is drawn for its own ground and its own light, and each shares the same bones: a schist plinth, a larch frame, a steel roof plane.
01 · 2013
Maungawera House
Maungawera Valley
The first house. The owners had farmed the valley for three generations and wanted to stay on the footprint of the cottage their grandmother had been born in.
- Area
- 285 m²
- Bedrooms
- 3
- Completed
- 2013
02 · 2015
Glendhu House
Glendhu Bay, Lake Wānaka
A lakeside section that had been waiting for a house since the seventies. The brief was a single word: quiet.
- Area
- 340 m²
- Bedrooms
- 3
- Completed
- 2015
03 · 2017
Pisa House
Pisa Range, above Luggate
Eight hundred metres up the Pisa Range, in the path of the nor'wester. The first house to carry the thin steel roof plane, because nothing lighter would have stayed.
- Area
- 410 m²
- Bedrooms
- 4
- Completed
- 2017
04 · 2019
Cardrona House
Cardrona Valley
A valley that gets four hours of winter sun. Every room was drawn from where the light lands at two in the afternoon on the shortest day.
- Area
- 372 m²
- Bedrooms
- 3
- Completed
- 2019
05 · 2021
Tarras House
Bendigo terraces, Tarras
Old gold country. The terraces were dug by hand in the 1860s and the house sits on one of them, its long wall following the cut.
- Area
- 455 m²
- Bedrooms
- 4
- Completed
- 2021
06 · 2024
Dingle Burn House
Eastern shore, Lake Hāwea
Forty minutes up the lake road, past the last power pole. The house is off-grid by necessity and the schist came out of the bench it stands on.
- Area
- 520 m²
- Bedrooms
- 4
- Completed
- 2024