The Crossing is a private home built on the original cattle tablelands overlooking Pakiri Beach.

© Simon Devitt

Architects: Studio2 Architects

Location: Pakiri, New Zealand

Architect In Charge: Paul Clarke

Design Team: Paul Clarke, Brett Gerrard

Area: 130.4 sqm

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: Simon Devitt

© Simon Devitt

The Crossing is a private home built on the original cattle tablelands overlooking Pakiri Beach.The house fuses together a limited material palette of concrete, blue steel, and oiled cedar into a bold and incredibly dynamic space, allowing the owner (a professional writer) genuine flexibility to entertain, while acknowledging the need for the relative solitude of a working studio space.
Plans

The form of the house is immediately and boldly sculptural; at once reflecting the traditional rural steel farm buildings of the area, and the dramatic local landscape. The sophisticated position of the hilltop home is a reflection of its ability to capture sun and views.The design consists of two primary axis; a long north-south facing corridor (extended by a 10m concrete ?walkway? which brings you to the entrance door) and the other, which intersects the house east to west. This is an important intersection which reinforces the name ?The Crossing?, but also divi...