Otaki Gorge, New Zealand, 2001

“This Otaki River house extends the vernacular of the rural New Zealand barn towards all four points of the compass. Its site is a 5-acre garden on the eastern edge of the Otaki River Gorge, a deep, beech-lined trench meandering through a north-running valley with sinuous hills to west, east and south.

The house is totally timber…It explores the aesthetic/structural potential of the timber frame as a consistently exposed element of its architecture.”

• Build, April/May 2004