Holiday Home, Kawau Island Residential Development, New Zealand Home, Architecture, Images
Holiday Home on Kawau Island
New Zealand Residential Building ? design by Dorrington Atcheson Architects
2 Oct 2016
Holiday Home
Design: Dorrington Atcheson Architects
Location: Kawau Island, Hauraki Gulf, North Island, New Zealand
Holiday Home

The orientation and design of this holiday home for a family of four on Kawau Island makes a hero of the view that stretches from the headland across the Bon Accord harbour and out to sea. With humble scale and materiality, the form hunkers into a steep manuka-clad site, a quiet newcomer to the native forest.

Visitors enter the house by walking between two forms: a lineal spine and the bedroom block. The ?spine? is a utilitarian area with a dive room for wetsuits and regulators, a temperature-controlled cool store, the laundry and extra storage.
The layout of the main home comprises two unimposing elements: one pavilion becomes the social hub that contains a modest kitchen, living and dining area; the other ? the sleep zone – with two bedrooms, bathrooms, and a ?rack and stack? bunkroom.

 
Cedar shiplap and black ply cladding speak of the Kiwi vernacular while the layout is reminiscent of a campsite, albeit with a few extra home comforts.

A cocoon of timber created by cedar-sarked ceilings, plywood wall linings and solid-oak overlay flooring lends the space material warmth while shots of colour in the bedrooms bring a playfuln...