Scrubby Bay House Annandale, Pigeon Bay home, Banks Peninsula residence, NZ building, New Zealand architecture

Scrubby Bay House in Pigeon Bay

Timber Property NZ: Banks Peninsula Home, New Zealand design by Patterson Associates Architects

post updated 26 March 2024

Architects: Patterson Associates

Location: Annandale, Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand

Scrubby Bay House, Banks Peninsula

Photos by Greg McKenzie

15 Sep 2019

Scrubby Bay House

This is a robust structure, designed to form the centre piece of a remote, symmetrical and thundering surf beach.

The residence is sited on one of New Zealand’s iconic coastal sheep and cattle stations and is intended as a farm experience for family groups up to 12 people.

This simple contemporary home on Pigeon Bay is accessed by helicopter from Christchurch Airport, or by farm track.

This rural NZ house was commissioned by an expatriate New Zealand owner as a base from the where multiple farm and coastal activities can be discovered enjoyed and recovered.

A vernacular verandahed form belies its massive scale, the apex height is at 5.5 metre and its knee at 3.4 metre in a fully macrocarpa interior, traditionally detailed juxtaposed against black steel fittings.

At the centre of the house is a stone fireplace, constructed from rock quarried from the station.

The project incorporates mainly custom designed fittings, door hardware, furniture and lighting, oak grills and handles.

The building shuts down during storms or when unoccupied and when opened sets up both seaward and leeward exterior environments.

It is conceived of as a piece of slowly aging farm driftwood, in the future stock might come right up to the building.

Scrubby Bay House, New Zealand – Building Information

Project Name: Annandale Scrubby Bay
Project Address: Banks Peninsula, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand
Client: Mark & Jacqui Palmer
Start Date: 2009
Completion Date: 2013
Total Floor Area
Site Area: N/A – Farmland

Design Director: Andrew Patterson
Lead Designer: Andrew Patterson
Project Manager: Octa Group
Team: Davor Popadich, Grant Scurr

Colours: None –Timber
Roofing: Equa Membrane
Exterior: Cedar Weatherboard
Floors: Oak
Interior: Maerocarpa Lining
Landscape: Rob Watson

Windows: APL Architectural Services
Builder: Hoogervorst Builders
Engineer: Tyndall & Associates

Awards: Home of the Year Finalist 2014

Photographer: Greg McKenzie

Scrubby Bay House in Pigeon Bay images / information received 201016

Patterson Associates

Location: Pigeon Bay 7583, New Zealand

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