Drift Bay Contemporary House Design by Kerr Ritchie Architects

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Kerr Ritchie Architects have recently completed a contemporary house design in Queenstown, New Zealand. Occupying an area of 280 square meters, the family home was designed as a single fluid form that reclines into the sloping landscape on the edge of Lake Wakatipu.

The way in is through a hole punched in the middle creating a courtyard which allows visitors to enter either the family home to the north or the studio/guest wing to the south. The main house pulls away from an eastern bank, to provide courtyards sheltered from the prevailing wind and summer sun.

The roof and walls of the modern house are primarily clad in black steel. But, on another parts where the occupants move in and out of the house, to the north, south elevations and the entry, the steel is replaced with softer wood boards.

The interior is intended to have the flexibility of an institutional building. Strong concrete floors, profiled insitu concrete walls and Strandboard are softened with a shiny plastic glowing screen wall and plastic light fittings. Photography by Paul McCredie

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