- Architects: Cheshire Architects
- Location: Kaiwaka, New Zealand
- Partners In Charge: Nat Cheshire, Ian Scott
- Area: 58.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2012
- Photographs: Jeremy Toth
- Engineering: Thorne Dwyer
- Structures: Steve Thorne
- Building Contractor: Peter Oakden
From the architect. Eyrie comprises two houses near Kaiwaka. Each is barely larger than four sheets of plywood. They are made from wood, are off-grid and autonomous, their outsides burnt black. This project is part polemic, part escape. Holiday homes have become this country’s decadence.
Our sub-prime estuarine site permitted a 1500m² palace. It forbade two 29m² cabins. At night we talked excitedly about Malevich’s Suprematism; in the morning we got up and wrote legal submissions on visual density and the attrition of driveways. We wanted a different vision for New Zealand’s coastal future.
In these houses a history of prismatic abstraction is conflated with a poetic of small boats bobbing in a sea of grass. There are no doors. One climbs up boulders and in through a window instead. We hoped that in subverting the shorthand language of building these little constructions might feel like something other than – and more than – houses.
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