Gerrad Hall Architects

Inland House

Inland House
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INLAND HOUSE

Gerrad Hall Architects

MANUFACTURERS
Architectural Profiles Limited, Steel & Tube, Warmington Fires

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Gerrad Hall

OTHER PARTICIPANTS
No. 8 Engineering, Oisin Frost

PHOTOGRAPHS
Tash Hopkins

AREA
320.0 m2

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Mangawhai, New Zealand

CATEGORY
Houses

Inland House
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Inland House
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Text description provided by architect.

The site was a secret valley that had been subdivided off from a larger farm located about an hour north or Auckland.

Inland House
Inland House

I wanted to explore what a “Modern Farmhouse” could be using traditional New Zealand rural buildings as a formal reference for two of the three structures.

One is a faithful copy of a shed typology, the other is an evolution of a hay-barn typology into a more complicated spatial experience.

Inland House
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Inland House
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The third building is a tower standing as an sentinel for the valley and utilised as guest accommodation.

The clients wanted to retreat from the city back to the land and memories of their childhood on a Dairy Farm.

This idea of nostalgia suggested a search for the romantic and the rustic rather than intellectual abstraction.

Inland House
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Inland House
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The collection of structures is assembled informally around a gravelled yard and a 3m step in the ground contour to the level of the lawns.

This arrangement serves to reference most farm complexes aggregated nature, and allow the buildings and the interstitial spaces to constantly re-frame the landscape as occupants move though the site.

Instead of the modernist dissolution of the interior and exterior, there are clear divides between the two and a gradation of light and volume from the large well-lit spaces to the smaller darker.

Inland House
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Inland House
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Inland House
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The changing interiority a traditional barn through the seasons as it fills and empties with hay is referenced by playing out the main circulation on the two levels and the varying proximity to the enclosing roof.

Inland House
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Inland House
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Inland House
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Inland House
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Inland House
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Inland House
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Inland House
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Elevation
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Elevations
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Barn Plans
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Site Plan
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Floor Plans

Gerrad Hall Architects
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Gerrad Hall Architects
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