Style: January 05, 2018

STYLE | home 19
From the outset, Ed Aitken
knew he wanted to build a
solar-powered eco house with
rammed earth walls.
Photo: Tim Richardson
The point is, this is not your quintessential
Kiwi ‘bach’. There’s no brightly coloured
fibro cement, faded Formica and hand-medown
furniture squeezed into a compact
floorplan in a beaut spot. Rather, The Point is
emblematic of today’s upscale holiday homes,
with steel, cedar and rammed earth housing
luxuriously appointed, cleverly designed and
generous interiors.
The Point is, though, decidedly in a beaut
spot. It was this magnificent location – a rocky
headland jutting into the western side of Pigeon
Bay – that inspired its build. The Point defines
the southern tip of the smaller Holmes Bay and
the Aitken family farm, which stretches along
13km of coastline to the north.
“Ed’s mother always wanted to build a
house on this spot and we’d often gather here
for family picnics,” says Penny Aitken. A seed
was planted and it was around 2008 that Ed
decided, “We must do something about getting
that house built in our lifetime.”
From the outset, Ed Aitken knew he
wanted to build a solar-powered eco house
with rammed earth walls. But it wasn’t until
2012, working with architect Graeme Finlay of
Warren & Mahoney, that building began, taking
inspiration from the sustainable designs of one
of Australia’s most recognised architects Glenn
Murcutt. Construction finished in 2013 and
The Point has been available for holiday rentals
since 2014.
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