House 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.
The bedrooms face east and the living room faces north-west, so the house is used the way the valley is: morning at one end, evening at the other.
Specification
- Site
- Cardrona Valley, 6 ha
- Completed
- Spring 2019
- Floor area
- 372 m²
- Bedrooms
- Three
- Structure
- Schist plinth, larch frame, steel roof plane
- Glazing
- Triple-glazed, bronze-black
- Winter sun
- Four hours, all of it used
- Materials
- Central Otago schist, Charred larch, Oak, Wool
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