Houses revisited: Hahei Beach house

To have a home proper on the seaside is a fantasy for a lot of – a way of life of solar, surf and sky, and just a few steps from sand between your toes to the espresso machine and a snug chair. Such alternatives are uncommon. At Hahei Seashore on the Coromandel Peninsula there are solely a handful of such websites and the McCoy + Heine Architects-designed Flexman home occupies certainly one of them.

Owned by the identical household for many years, the unique bach was now not suited to the rising household, who wished to maintain a legacy for future generations whereas persevering with to construct on a valuable retailer of household reminiscences.

This offered the fast issue of the right way to accommodate six adults and 9 kids holidaying collectively or a single household on a web site bordered by neighbours on three sides and the general public area of the ocean as effectively. The home wanted to be versatile with out taking away from the magnificent view of the cove all the way in which to the horizon. It needed to be simply shared between three households with out everybody tripping over one another. It needed to showcase the surroundings with out compromising privateness.

By designing the constructing as three distinct volumes of various heights, communal residing is balanced with non-public retreats, and the visible impression to the general public and neighbours utilizing the seaside is minimised. By creating a visible rhythm of depths and recesses round decks, the home creates a type of proscenium or stoa-like impact, additional creating a sense of separation from public and shared area with out ignoring its existence – thus the side is maximised by a sequence of framed views whereas any potential fishbowl impact is minimised, façades softened, and shade offered.

Considering the great summer season climate of the Coromandel coast, architect Tim McCoy has designed a pure development of indoor and out of doors areas that observe the solar and views all through the day and provide shelter from the ocean breeze within the afternoon. Passive local weather management retains the constructing optimally snug with a air flow core that permits the breeze to flow into from the centre of the home to the higher ranges together with restricted opening ground degree home windows within the bedrooms for 24-hour temperature management.

Befitting a coastal vacation dwelling, the home brings collectively a palette of impartial, pure and low upkeep supplies supposed to offer a lightweight and ethereal setting. Very a lot a constructing of Excessive Modernist aesthetic sensibilities and really fey PoMo trappings, this home is Mid-Century Trendy meets twenty-first century Pacific residing informal stylish. It’s a simple traditional that may maintain onto model and good style for generations to come.

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