FARMHOUSE
RTA Studio, Richard Naish
ARCHITECTS
RTA Studio, Richard Naish
LOCATION
Waipa District, New Zealand
CATEGORY
Houses
ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Richard Naish
AREA
400.0 m2
PROJECT MANAGER
Styles Project Management
HYDRAULICS ENGINEER
Hydraulic Services Consultants
QUANTITY SURVEYOR
Ryder Levett Bucknell
BUILDER
Carbon Construction
Text description provided by architect.
The house is located on a promontory on a Waikato farm overlooking vast limestone bluffs and rolling pasture.
The house was commissioned by a young Auckland family with a desire to create a rural retreat to escape the city with immediate and extended family and/or friends.
Drawing from the rural vernacular, a collection of forms was conceived to engage the local environment.
Three open ended pitched roofed pavilions were arranged to accommodate the three distinct functions of the house:
living, family sleeping and guest sleeping with flat roofed service pods linking them together.
This arrangement serves to capture views, both intimate and vast as well as provide a variety of sheltered outdoor living spaces, either private or communal.
This allows the house to offer a variety of separated private spaces or communal entertainment spaces.
