SHEERWATER HOUSE
Sheerwater House is a country retreat for city-based owners of a deer farm that flanks Lake Otota, in the northern arm of South Head peninsular, Kaipara. It is designed in response to the calm, abstract quality of the lake and the soft dune landscape.
Lake Ototoa, Kaipara harbour, 2005
2005
Lake Otota is a sand dune lake in the ancient dunes making up the Kaipara peninsular. Sand dune lake are unique bodies of water in that they are not fed by streams and have no streams leaving them, they are calm, landlocked bodies of water.
The architecture of the house responded to the tensile calmness of this landscape.
