Karekare Bach, New Zealand Oceanfront Residential Building, NZ Home Photos, Architecture
Karekare Bach, New Zealand beachfront cabin
7 Aug 2020
Karekare Bach, New Zealand beachfront Residence
Design: Stevens Lawson Architects
Location: Waitakere Ranges, New Zealand
Facing the waves:
Stevens Lawson Architects collaborate with designer and surfer Dean Pool on a spectacular beach-front cabin in New Zealand complete with Fisher & Paykel appliances

Photos by Simon Devitt
Designed in collaboration with artist, creative director and surfer Dean Poole for his own family, this efficient and deceptively simple weekend house is hidden up a zig-zag stairway in the dense, native forest of the Waitakere Ranges, which roll down to the black-sand surf beaches below. Karekare Bach was born out of a desire to connect with the natural landscape and provide Dean Poole and his family with an ?authentic New Zealand experience?, a goal that has been successfully executed in every corner of the project. The entire lower level is devoted to an open kitchen, living and dining space in which the family can enjoy spending time together while looking out of the floorto-ceiling windows to the expansive native bush just outside.

To perfectly complement the architecture?s intentional simplicity, Dean took on the role of designing the kitchen himself. Having worked with Fisher & Paykel over many years in his role as creative director with the Auckland-based design studio Alt Group, the New Zealan...