Taumata
This holiday home is arranged around the rituals of New Zealand beach utopia. It is the control and celebration of the environmental conditions – wind / sun / sea – that makes this design so successful.
Within a suburban context that houses a complexity of form and materials, the palette for this beach
house was kept deliberately muted and limited. The emphasis of the sculptural enclosure was
on protecting and revealing the functional nodes of the dwelling. The form controls and
celebrates the environmental conditions and is arranged around the rituals of New Zealand
beachfront living. The house is designed to be self-contained amid a cluttered suburban
backdrop, with carefully considered outlooks that frame and draw focus to the beach and adjoining reserve. Detailing is focused on the Pacific Rim tradition of timber-framed construction. The use of the same
material, cedar, in a variety of methodologies, produces different qualities of space, opacity
and transparency.
- Daniel Marshall
- Daniel Lewis
- Ernie Shackles
- NZIA – Auckland Branch Award, Residential
- New Zealand Architecture | 2007 – pg. 33-37













- Cedar weatherboards
- Aluminium joinery
- House
- Holiday Home
- Coastal
- Auckland
- Timber
- Aluminium

Kakariki Mount Eden residence

CorinthAddition to a celebrated modernist dwelling