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House for Camping

House for Camping sits on the boundary of Abel Tasman National Park, within a regenerating beech-podocarp forest of mature kānuka. Rather than clear new ground, Patchwork Architecture set the building inside an existing clearing and organised it as a courtyard type — pushing the structure to the forest edge and leaving the centre as a sun-filled outdoor room. The house is conceived as a series of rooms gathered beneath a single expansive roof. A single corrugated-steel roof spans the plan as one continuous plane, carried on a raked grid of slender steel posts and diagonal steel bracing that lift it clear of the timber volumes beneath. The rooms are wrapped in vertical timber board cladding, with narrower battened timber screens marking entries and enclosing the more private edges — a soft, weathering skin held apart from the steel frame that carries the roof above it. Deep verandas run beneath the overhanging roof around the courtyard's perimeter, linked by open timber decking. This is not a house that behaves like an ordinary one. Covered outdoor spaces frame apertures onto the surrounding bush and double as sleeping areas for extended family, with tents pitched beneath the eaves — sheltered, but still open to the outside. Bedrooms, living spaces and an outdoor shower are arranged along the covered edges of the courtyard, reached along the timber-decked breezeways that thread through its planting of native grasses and loose rock. Inside, walls and ceilings are lined in dark-stained timber, and a freestanding stainless-steel island anchors the kitchen at the centre of the living space. The plan stays tight and considered — generous enough for the rhythms of a big family without tipping into excess, its footprint small enough to read, from above, as little more than a clearing in the forest canopy. The site lies a short distance from one of New Zealand's most celebrated coastlines, set deep inside the forest the house was built to preserve. It asks something of the people who live there — an attentiveness to weather, to the bush, to what lies just beyond the building's edge. The house runs fully off-grid, generating its own power and collecting its own water, independent of the surrounding infrastructure; that self-sufficiency is what lets it sit this far into the forest without asking for more of it than the original clearing already gave up. Rory Wilson-Cartwright (SUPER OFFICE), the project architect, lived on site for close to a year during construction — off-grid, in a small temporary dwelling alongside builder George and his apprentice Marty, sharing a kitchen and working the tools alongside them. It was, by his account, an education in how buildings are actually made, and in how a place changes as it comes together.

Coat Hook (Small)

The Coat Hook (Small) is a modern take on a wall hook. The piece is crafted from a single bent sheet of solid 304 Stainless Steel. Designed to look like a spontaneous sketch brought to life, its continuous wavy silhouette acts as a versatile resting place for your coats, scarves, bags, and hats. The irregular, cloud-like edge provides multiple natural grooves for hanging items effortlessly, all edges are deburred to prevent damaging fabrics.

Stöckliacker School Complex

The Stöckliacker school complex in Lohn-Ammannsegg is defined by two fixed conditions: a large open space at its centre, and a site that slopes gently across it. Haller Gut Architekten's new building closes a gap in the complex, set between the existing double kindergarten and a multipurpose hall along Friedhofstrasse. Generous distances to the neighbouring school and residential buildings, together with sightlines kept open across the plot, preserve the site's spatial expanse despite the considerable densification the new building represents. The addition is a three-storey timber structure, filigree enough, in the architects' own description, to give the school an identity without adding visual weight to an already crowded site. It is oriented outward on every side rather than toward a single front: a generous canopy and three covered entrance loggias mark the points of arrival, sheltering the thresholds between inside and outside. The timber structure is left exposed throughout, standing as both frame and finish; in selected interior spaces raw brick is left similarly unfinished, extending the same restraint to the building's second material. In plan, the school and the sports hall are kept spatially separate so the two can be run independently. Rooms for sport sit in the gallery and basement levels; the ground floor gathers the kindergartens, the day school and a cultural room with direct access outside. Above, the school rooms are grouped into a cluster reached through a central, multi-purpose hall, with cloakrooms and study niches set along both sides of its façade — used for independent work as well as an informal break space. The slope that defines the site is treated as a working device rather than a condition to be levelled: because the ground falls toward the building, both the school's ground floor and the sports hall's gallery level can be entered directly at grade, without ramps, stairs or additional excavation. Outside, a green belt of trees runs along the street-facing edges of the plots and frames the shared open space at the centre of the complex; the playgrounds, sports fields and open areas surrounding the building are loosely rather than prescriptively arranged, offering different play and adventure zones to children of different ages, a range of activity further extended by a small natural forest at the site's edge. The project, designed and built between 2023 and 2025 for the Einwohnergemeinde Lohn-Ammannsegg, extends an existing school campus rather than replacing it — closing out the Stöckliacker complex's edge while leaving the ground it was built around, and the buildings either side of it, undisturbed.

Coat Hook (Large)

The Coat Hook (Large) is a modern take on a wall hook. The piece is crafted from a single bent sheet of solid 304 Stainless Steel. Designed to look like a spontaneous sketch brought to life, its continuous wavy silhouette acts as a versatile resting place for your coats, scarves, bags, and hats. The irregular, cloud-like edge provides multiple natural grooves for hanging items effortlessly, all edges are deburred to prevent damaging fabrics.

Wall Shelf S_600

Coat Hook (Small)

Wall Shelf D_600