| The entrance to the Kaipara Harbour
is a dangerous place: it has been the burial ground for a number
of ships in the early days of trade and settlement. Remnants
of many of these vessels remain.
As a response, the house is conceptually a number of upturned
hulls submerged in the sand – ‘rusting’ hulks
which continue to weather in this harsh coastal environment.
This idea is explored within the plan with irregular shapes
and spaces – one can imagine these having been shifted
and morphed by time and tides.
The experience of the landscape is manipulated by various
relationships to the outside – withdrawn, immediate and
projected. The cladding of weathered copper reinforces the
notion of the temporal and the developing of a patina over
time.
The structure of timber portal frame reminiscent of the early
structure of galleons, colliers and trading ships of an earlier
time, handmade and solid. The house is an exploration of the
notion of ‘form finding’ as opposed to form making:
the idea that an appropriate architecture emerges out of its
context.
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