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18 STYLE | home NATURAL FORM & FUNCTION Returning from overseas, a New Zealand couple decided to build a relaxed family home that made the most of the great outdoors. Words Kim Dungey Photos Simon Devitt ABOVE: The home overlooks the Wanaka basin.
STYLE | home 19 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: The home hunkers low under a gently sloped roof-plane; The television is tucked behind the fireplace, at one end of the snug; Criffel Range rises behind this home near Wanaka. Having lived overseas for 13 years, the owners of this rammed-earth home decided to move back to New Zealand to be close to family. The location is a rugged narrow terrace at the foot of the Criffel Range near Wanaka. Subdivided from a farm below, the site overlooks the rural land and distant mountains surrounding Wanaka and had a 15m-by-30m building platform orientated to the north. The owners had seen rammed earth used before by Assembly Architects in Wanaka and liked it for its natural qualities and local character. Their brief was for a relaxed family home where their children remained close, with the ability to work from home and to have guests to stay. Having been apartment dwellers in Singapore, large bedrooms were not needed, but they did want a generous living space well connected to the outdoors. The guest bedroom would double as a reading and yoga space. Rammed-earth walls were used primarily in the living Having been apartment dwellers in Singapore, large bedrooms were not needed, but they did want a generous living space well connected to the outdoors. spaces and the perimeter walls of the home. Concrete footings were left exposed and vertical concrete elements were used as dividers – for example, between the lounge and the snug, as a bedhead, and against the kitchen bench. Tucked behind the corten steel entry door is the study. The living rooms and all the bedrooms are sited along the northern length of the building platform, capturing the sun and panoramic view.
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