Te Kaitaka is situated amongst the tussock covered hills of Roy’s Peninsula on the shores of Lake Wanaka.

Our clients, originally from the South Island, split their time between their homes in Auckland and Wanaka. 

They asked for a generous and sociable home to accommodate their family and friends.

Nature
The outstanding natural environment required a sensitive approach to the design, with the local council imposing restrictions on the size and location of the building platform and the materials used. Our design employs an architectural language of triangulated geometries and origami-like cuts and folds to create a sculptural form that relates strongly to the mountainous landscape. The structure of the house is pre-cast concrete, raw to the interior, with an external cedar rainscreen to the walls and roof selected to weather into the natural environment.

Location: Lake Wanaka, New Zealand.

Architect: Steven Lawson Architects

Photography: Simon Devitt

Text: www.stevenslawson.co.nz