Parsonson Architects Waikanae House

06 February 2012,
The house is in Waikanae, a small verdant sea side town on the Kapiti Coast 45 minutes north of New Zealand’s capital city Wellington.

This house was built to be a holiday retreat for a Wellington couple and their 3 children. Completed in 2010, the site is a narrow strip which sits behind a high fore-dune towards the beach. The team at Parsonson Architects managed to come up with a beautiful yet simple design, embodying the carefree lifestyle that is usually breathed during the holidays.

The house, designed as a ‘dune hopper’ has a single open-plan living space that sits above the bedrooms and peers out into the open sea and Kapiti Island. The house uses references from fibrolite sheet construction that many of the 1950’s houses nearby use. Whilst the architecture may sway along with the natural shape on which it stands, the interior is doused in a calming yet altogether cheerful color scheme.

ABOUT PARSONSON ARCHITECTS
Parsonson Architects was established in 1987 and is based in Wellington, New Zealand. The practice has focused primarily on individual houses and aims to produce work with a high level of sensitivity and discipline, engaging the spirit of each owner and site. More recently projects have included apartment buildings; retail fit outs in North America and Europe and competition entries across a variety of building types and project scales.