Designed by Cheshire Architects

Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects demonstrate just how decadent the holiday home has become — and how rewarding returning back to basics can be…

Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects (via Lunchbox Architect)

Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects (via Lunchbox Architect)

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.

Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects (via Lunchbox Architect)

Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects (via Lunchbox Architect)

"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

Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects (via Lunchbox Architect)

Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects (via Lunchbox Architect)

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.

Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects (via Lunchbox Architect)

Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects (via Lunchbox Architect)

Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects (via Lunchbox Architect)

Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects (via Lunchbox Architect)

Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects (via Lunchbox Architect)

Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects (via Lunchbox Architect)

Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects (via Lunchbox Architect)

Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects (via Lunchbox Architect)

Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects (via Lunchbox Architect)

Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects (via Lunchbox Architect)

Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects (via Lunchbox Architect)

"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

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