Architects designed an energy-efficient, timber-frame house for a client with limited mobility who desired views of the surrounding countryside on New Zealand’s South Island.
A set of rowhouses combines a traditional all-wood structure with strategies for generating and saving energy, offering a new model for low-carbon living.
With a new structure, the architects responded to their client’s passion for barns by incorporating into the design traditional qualities of barns—generous spaces, repetitive timber frame—while creating a complex interior for modern living.
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