under pohutukawa house value. Under Pohutukawa House truly gives you the sense of living under a natural canopy. We look to Herbst Architects , a well renowned studio from New Zealand that has already made an appearance on our site with their Kawakawa House project in Piha. Its positively breathtaking. Here, there is darkness and light, shelter and openness, a blurring of the boundaries between natural and man-made elements. To do this we looked to the trees themselves to give us the cues that we needed. You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! The living room is the featured space of the home, with its large ceilings, fireplace, furniture, and lighting all designed to be welcoming to guests and provide a space for hours spent talking and story telling. The height of the public space with its light glass division responds to the height of the surrounding trees, the roof planeis partially glass to allow the full extent of the trees to be felt as they lean over the building. Part of the roof plane is glass to maximise the view of the trees from within the light-filled home. Hideout Bali | Eco Bamboo Home | Cabins in Bali. Photograph by Patrick Reynolds. These towers are connected by public space. Despite the need for removal of some mature trees to realise this project, the home is a sensitive addition to the Pohutukawa forest. The edges are designed to filters the light in a similar way to the leaf canopy. The offset cladding panel grid extends the idea of a fluid mass/volume. It has modern amenity and also harmony with its surrounding natural beauty. The trees around the residence also provide guiding principles of the houses composition. The plane of the roof form pins off the towers to engage with the continuous tree canopy, disintegrating from a rigid plane to a frayed edge which filters light in a similar way to the leaf canopy. The circumstances not so much allowed, but dictated a sensitive poetic response to a building that, in order to exist would require the destruction of a large number of mature trees. "target=_blank rel=nofollow>