This modern contemporary family house on the beach using traditional materials and having modern contemporary architectural style, with four bedrooms plus studio and study room. The framework composition for the house is made from natural oiled cedar weatherboards, painted plywood and weathered zinc sheet In this coastal setting.
This WAIMARAMA HOUSE using heat pump technology and solar panels on the roof, augment the large double glazed openings that capture sun and trap heat in winter, but cool through sea breezes in summer.
The composition of natural oiled cedar weatherboards, painted plywood and weathered zinc sheet both connects the house to the landscape and some older local traditions, but equally clearly sets it apart from much of the local built context. This is a house strongly connected to the land but prepared, if the sands and tides shift against it, to move.
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