Marlborough Sounds Retreat

Awards

2016

• Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Nelson Marlborough Architecture Award - Housing

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Publications

2023

• Andrew Wood, “Houses revisited: Tennyson Inlet house”, Architecture Now, www.archtiecturenow, 24.3.2023

2017

• Design Guide, Luxury Redefined Issue #7, New Zealand 2017, pg 131

2016

• “Architecture is for Everybody”, Wild Tomato, Issue 119, June 2016, page 21-24

• “NZIA Local Architecture Awards”. Architecture NZ, page 62

2015

• Architecture Now, www.architecturenow.co.nz, NZ, 19 August

2014

• Houses, Issue 31, Autumn, pg 4, 13, 34-42

  View Houses “Tennyson Inlet House” Article

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Marlborough Sounds Retreat is dug down into a moderate north facing slope. Forms are deliberately elongated to layer the house into its environment and present an apparent single level, in keeping with the adjacent village. Material selections further reduce visual impact and marry the building to the dark, brooding bush clad slopes behind.

While views are abundant on all fronts and the site occupies a sunny knoll, development in the area needs to address high rainfall and strong winds from both north and south; this environment is tough on buildings.

Material selections are robust, a protective outer shell of natural zinc cladding protects an inner skin of oiled cedar cladding and extensive double glazing. Blockwork walls anchor the building to the site.