Under Pohutukawa House by Herbst Architects

Check out this great house in Piha, New Zealand. The site with which the architect were presented was extremely challenging in that it was 90% covered in mature pohutukawa trees, the site being a part of a continuous belt of forest that edges the road along the beach front.

The circumstances not so much allowed, but dictated a sensitive poetic response to a building that, in order to exist would require the destruction of a large number of mature trees. To do this the architect looked to the trees themselves to give them the cues that they needed.

For more info go to Herbst Architects. Photo by Patrick Reynolds.