Trends New Zealand Trends Volume 32 No 4 New Zealand | Page 11

highly visible to the 50,000 cars that pass
each day on the Pacific Coast Highway,
which hugs the coastline at this point.
“All of this meant that I could make
something dramatic and sculptural that
would be seen,” says Dziewulski.
What wasn’t so attractive, though, was
the existing building – one of the inexpensively built weekend getaways on the
beach dating back to the 1950s and ‘60s.
The house had been strangely planned
with a number of small spaces.
“Moving the third bedroom upstairs

Before

Preceding pages: A wall of glass provides dramatic
ocean views from the open-plan living area on the
ground level of this beachside weekend getaway.
These pages: An angled structure gives the house
a machine-like appearance, allowing it to hover
over the surf. The effect is further heightened by
decks that cantilever about 3m over the waves.
Left: The original structure on the site was one of
the inexpensive weekend homes built along the
beach in the 1950s and 1960s.

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