House in New Zealand27 photos

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House in New Zealand

Residence Bramasole, designed by Herbst Architects studio in the Waimaku area of New Zealand, fully aligns with the common lifestyle in these parts where agricultural activities are more of a pleasant way of life than a profit-driven endeavor.

The house features the use of gabions—metal wire mesh containers filled with stones—as a construction material. Gabion baskets are used as landscape elements that divide the site into sectors. At the building entrance, they are low and merely mark the space; elsewhere, they rise upward to form the retaining wall of the house.

Architectural composition is a combination of positive and negative spaces—three enclosed volumes and the voids between them.

The main "negative" space is the living room and kitchen pavilion, located between the dining room and bedrooms. Its sloped roof appears to float above the living room thanks to glazed openings between the ceiling and wall. The living room opens into a terrace; on the other side of the building, there is another large sunny terrace.

The house is built on a foundation to elevate the walls above wet ground. This allows the structure to hover above the earth, offering residents a view over vineyards and bringing their gaze level with that of a horse rider. The foundation also unifies open and enclosed spaces within the building.

Photographs: Lance Herbst, Patrick Reynolds