Inland House / Gerrad Hall Architects
The site was a secret valley that had been subdivided off from a larger farm located about an hour north or Auckland.
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Architects: Gerrad Hall Architects
Location: Mangawhai, New Zealand
Architect In Charge: Gerrad Hall
Area: 320.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Tash Hopkins
Other Participants : ?No. 8 Engineering? ? Oisin Frost
© Tash Hopkins
From the architect. The site was a secret valley that had been subdivided off from a larger farm located about an hour north or Auckland.
Site Plan
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. The third building is a tower standing as an sentinel for the valley and utilised as guest accommodation.
© Tash Hopkins
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.Â
© Tash Hopkins
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 com...
© Tash Hopkins
Architects: Gerrad Hall Architects
Location: Mangawhai, New Zealand
Architect In Charge: Gerrad Hall
Area: 320.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Tash Hopkins
Other Participants : ?No. 8 Engineering? ? Oisin Frost
© Tash Hopkins
From the architect. The site was a secret valley that had been subdivided off from a larger farm located about an hour north or Auckland.
Site Plan
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. The third building is a tower standing as an sentinel for the valley and utilised as guest accommodation.
© Tash Hopkins
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.Â
© Tash Hopkins
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 com...
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