Roberts Gray Architects wraps SKI House with charred timber

Uncovered blockwork partitions are contrasted by screens of light-weight metal and blackened timber at SKI Home in Wānaka, New Zealand, created by native studio Roberts Grey Architects.

Overlooking the close by mountains, the home is designed for the mother and father of studio co-founder James Grey, who’ve lived subsequent to the location for over twenty years.

This led to the house being given the playful identify of SKI Home, which is an acronym for “spending youngsters’ inheritance”, whereas additionally nodding to the realm’s well-known ski resorts.

Described by Roberts Grey Architects as an “city sanctuary”, the house presents an summary, blocky facade to the road, however opens as much as reveal a courtyard backyard and panoramic mountain views framed by stable partitions and openable screens.

“The undertaking presents itself as a sequence of stable geometric kinds, thoughtfully organized to ascertain a stability between openness and enclosure,” the studio informed Dezeen.

“These kinds are tied collectively by a light-weight display screen system, courtyards and thoroughly positioned openings – creating dynamic interplays of sunshine and shadow inside,” it added. “The result is an city sanctuary amidst Wānaka’s dynamic panorama, inviting the following era to take pleasure in it into the longer term.”

SKI Home’s black screens, produced from metal and charred timber, conceal each a storage and an entrance door going through the road.

They prolong into the location to wrap a big courtyard, earlier than opening out onto a rear backyard.

Alongside the central residing space, these screens create a double pores and skin, with a barbecue veranda positioned between an internal layer of sliding glass doorways and an outer layer of sliding charred timber screens.

Contrasting these slatted and glazed areas are the house’s uncovered blockwork partitions, teamed with stone paving within the residing space and built-in storage within the kitchen.

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“The pairing of supplies is deliberate and considerate,” mentioned the studio. “As an illustration, galvanised metal is paired with blockwork because the tonality and weathering of the 2 are homogeneous.”

“Blackened metal, liable to floor rust, finds synergy with charred cedar,” it added. “The similarity in grain construction between Japanese cedar and American oak, a softwood paired with a hardwood, demonstrates consideration of each aesthetics and practicality.”

A hall that may be utterly opened to the central courtyard by way of sliding glass screens connects to the house’s two ground-floor bedrooms. Every of those results in a personal courtyard and has entry to a central rest room with an outside bathe.

On the small first ground, a single extra bed room extends right into a tall blockwork quantity, with a desk positioned to take pleasure in panoramic views of the mountains.

Different residential initiatives in New Zealand just lately revealed on Dezeen embody a towering extension that mimics a treehouse and a vacation lodge wrapped in a pores and skin of corrugated polycarbonate.

SKI Home was featured in a video produced by Dezeen for equipment model Fisher & Paykel, which supplied the house’s kitchen fittings.

The pictures is courtesy of Roberts Grey Architects.