Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects demonstrate just how decadent the holiday home has become — and how rewarding returning back to basics can be…
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Eyrie comprises two tiny houses near Kaiwaka in New Zealand. Each is barely larger than four sheets of plywood. They are made from wood, are off-grid and autonomous, their outsides burnt black. This project is part polemic, part escape.
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"Holiday homes have become this country’s decadence. Our sub-prime estuarine site permitted a 1500m² palace. It forbade two 29m² cabins. At night we talked excitedly about Malevich’s Suprematism; in the morning we got up and wrote legal submissions on visual density and the attrition of driveways. We wanted a different vision for New Zealand’s coastal future." — Cheshire Architects
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In these houses a history of prismatic abstraction is conflated with a poetic of small boats bobbing in a sea of grass. There are no doors. One climbs up boulders and in through a window instead.
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"We hoped that in subverting the shorthand language of building these little constructions might feel like something other than – and more than – houses." — Cheshire Architects