Castle Rock Beach House, Auckland Residential Development, NZ Architecture, Images
Castle Rock Beach House, Auckland
New Zealand Residential Building and Interior ? design by Herbst Architects
23 Jan 2017
Castle Rock Beach House
Design: Herbst Architects
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Castle Rock Beach House

The site is situated 3 hours north of Auckland on the east coast.

The site has 2 special features, a crescent shaped beach that it overlooks and a craggy mountain peak that overlooks it. The water view is south and the mountain view is north.

The brief was for a beach house primarily for summer use for a family including 2 young children.

The client is a keen sailor and commissioned a boat shed as stage 1 of the project. This structure acts as gate house to the main part of the site where the bach is situated. The boatshed platform allows for parking. The route between the boatshed and the bach is on foot via a pre-existing sheep track. The bach is sited on the crest of the hill. The hill falls away steeply in 3 directions. The building is split into two pavilions.
A living pavilion on the crest and a bedroom pavilion a floor below running parallel to the slope. The living pavilion has two decks obliquely adjacent to allow the occupant to track the sun and find shelter from the wind.

The upper and lower pavilions are stitched together by a staircase that t-junctions with the bedroom wing. A gabion wall retains the hillside and runs the length of a semi ext...