Fearon Hay Architects on Lunchbox Architect

Fearon Hay Architects is a New Zealand architecture practice. Its Lunchbox projects are small, carefully scaled retreats in some of the country's most remote landscapes.

On Great Barrier Island, Storm Cottage is a modest black, rough-sawn timber box looking north to the sea, wrapped in operable perforated metal screens and lined with warm oiled oak. Nearby, Sandhills Road House reinterprets the traditional Kiwi bach as two sheds linked by a floating pavilion inspired by stretched tarpaulin. Mountain Retreat is a small structure on a 1,300-hectare high country station on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, set among glaciated schist mountains.

See Storm Cottage, Mountain Retreat and more of their work on Lunchbox below.

Storm Cottage: A Simple Black Rough Sawn Timber Box Looks to the Sea

A modest retreat provides shelter, warmth and comfort in the wild and isolated of the remote setting.

Sandhills Road House is a Stylish Interpretation of Sheds and a Tarpaulin

Sandhills Road House draws on the most basic and humble rural sights to create a stunning contemporary beach bach.

Mountain Retreat: A Subtle Insertion in the Alpine Landscape

This superb Mountain Retreat utilises local stone to minimise impact to the external environment, but maximise the internal environment.