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Owhanake Bay House by Strachan Group Architects


Designed by Strachan Group Architects designed in 2008, Owhanake Bay House is a single-level house located on Waiheke Island, New Zealand.

For the semi-retired owners, single level accessibility was a requirement that set design challenges on a site with a 15 degree cross slope.

The house is a play on the idea of β€œliving on the verandah” in a sub-tropical climate. Banks of eastern flap windows on gas struts open, leaving only β€œverandah posts” intact as occupants engage with the landscape under the shelter and shade of the β€œverandah” roof.

Three narrow pavilions β€œbend” to follow the natural contours, allowing ease of movement through the landscape and minimal excavation of the landform. As in the natural environment, folds in landforms often contain watercourses; hence the two wedges of space between the three pavilions become a gathering of water, points of cleansing. These two linkages contain 2 bath-houses, one the main ensuite and the other a plunge pool/spa.

β€” Strachan Group Architects

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