The Coast House

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The Coast House is on New Zealand's South Coast, accessing The Catlins and Fiordland National Park. 

The Coast House is on a North facing site which backs into the sand dunes. The aim was to keep things low and work with the landscape.

The design is for a holiday home retreat, a Hideaway Home.

The house is constructed using Passive House ideology.

Materials are raw and stripped back internally. Rather than over lining the SIPs wall panels (Structurally Insulated Panels) we have stained them and worked with their texture to add a richness and a lodge like feel to the internal spaces. 

Stacey kept things interesting with a table tennis table instead of a kitchen island and dining table. She challenged herself and produced a home with no plasterboard linings.

The Coast House was awarded Green Home of the Year 2021 in Home Magazine Home of the Year.

Photographer: Ben Ruffell

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Stacey Farrell is an Architect who strives to produce remarkable bespoke architecture from her architectural practice in Queenstown, New Zealand, and a satellite office in Sydney, Australia. She works with local and international clients on residential projects specialising in considered design along passive house principals.

Her design focused studio leverages Stacey's latitude of experience to deliver truly special spaces custom designed for every client.

In all the work Stacey does she strives for low impact on the earth, long-lasting joy and quality, and high thermal performance. She is highly experienced with Passive House design principals and ideology along with leading edge building technologies including SIP (Structural Insulated Panel) construction.

Stacey is a member of the New Zealand Registered Architects Board, and the New Zealand Architects Co-operative Society.

Stacey's architectural expertise has been recognised by her peers with her performing duties as a Jury Convenor and Local Awards Juror for New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) and as a National Juror for Architectural Designers New Zealand (ADNZ).

Stacey Farrell graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from Auckland University. Stacey is a New Zealand Registered Architect.

Publications:

"Homes for our Time 2" by Phillip Jodidio. Taschen.

"Cape to Bluff" by Simon Devitt Photography.

"Big House Small House - New Homes by New Zealand Architects" by John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds.

"Small House Living - Inspiring New Zealand Houses Less Than 90m2" by Catherine Foster.

"Small Holiday Houses" by Catherine Foster.

"Modern Houses in Black" by Susan Redman

*Wallpaper, The Local Project, Home Magazine, Pendulum, Grand Designs Magazine UK, NZ Life and Leisure, Urbis, NZ House and Garden, Architecture NZ, The Australian Women's Weekly, New Zealand Herald, Canvas magazine, ProDesign, Remix, Alfresco, Interior Detail(s), New Zealand on Holiday, New Zealand Retail Business Magazine

Television:

Designing Dreams SkyOpen (NZ), Season 2 Episode 3. 

The Black House part one was featured as a finalist in ‘Best of New Zealand Home Design’. NZ Living Channel.

Extreme Homes HGTV USA.

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