Eyrie by Cheshire Architects
Eyrie is a wooden prefab retreat located in Kaiwaka, New Zealand, designed by Cheshire Architects.
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Description
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.
Photography by Jeremy Toth
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- by Matt Watts