Hill to horizon
Traversing rural paddock and an idyllic setting synonymous with coastal New Zealand, this is a special place, and the home that now stands among a handful of other baches is a thing of beauty.
Its face is turned to the sun: its profile exists both to provide shelter and to direct the onlooker’s gaze, and its interior is shaped by a convergence of spaces and moments, each gracefully interacting with the other.
As architect Jeremy Brick describes it, this is a home of “red carpet and stilettos and the two-piece tracksuit and blanket, depending on where you are — it spans the realms of public and private as you move through it”.
The site runs east to west. To the east, the boundary is marked by a traditional post and wire farm fence, which subtly invites the landscape into the rear courtyard. Beyond, a retired paddock extends towards the summit of a lazy hillside where passages of unruly
