Holiday home located at Breamtail Farm, near Mangawhai - north of Auckland, New Zealand.
A simple idea that became known as the Dart. Facing due north with stunning ocean views to the east and farmland views to the west.
Winner | 2022 NZIA Auckland Architecture Award Housing
"In an arrestingly bold design responding to a dramatic Mangawhai Heads coastal site, this dart-shaped holiday dwelling maintains a rigorously simple exterior form while harbouring beneath its aerial swiftness a nuanced series of internal spaces. Playing with and against the inevitable symmetry mandated by the central fold, the house favours surprising asymmetries while playfully deferring obvious points of culmination. Despite a sculptural boldness speaking to the surrounding drama of land and sea, an appealingly relaxed holiday home results with carefully framed views to the east and the west. Appearing as a compass in the paddock pointing exactly due north, the house is, less a precarious thing about to take off, than it is a grounded instrument."
NZIA Citation. Auckland Branch Award - Housing
“
John’s a genius. We gave him a very loose brief and introduced him to our site. Before we knew it he had scribbled a concept that both captured our imagination and blended into a stunning location. We couldn’t be happier with the final outcome.
Peter Sigley
- Photographer
- Simon Wilson
