Sandhills Roadhouse by Fearon Hay Architects

Projected by Fearon Hay Architects, this modern residential architecture design of Sandhills Roadhouse is located in Great Barrier Island, New Zealand. The kitchen, bedrooms, living room and deck are all one, making the color and warmth of this house the nature that surrounds it– not the design of the structure itself.

Fearon Hay’s traditional polished concrete is limited to a hard wearing living/dining area that in summer, thanks to the shelter of the dunes, could easily be left wide open. The two sleeping pavilions are clad in black stained ply and constructed over height with the walls extending to form the railing of the upstairs deck/viewing platform – a short unintrusive deck, from which to soak up the Medlands beach sunrise.