Inside a Dream Mountain Home in New Zealand’s Southern Alps | The Readers' Choice Home of the Year

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Set within New Zealand’s Southern Alps, this remarkable mountain home in Central Otago is a powerful response to landscape, climate, and place.

From a practice that continues to shape the architectural language of the South, this house demonstrates vernacular design at its most confident and sophisticated. What might appear as a loose aggregation of rural sheds reveals itself as a carefully orchestrated sequence of spatial encounters.

Robust, beautiful materials reinforce a function-first approach well suited to rural life, while the plan accommodates changing seasons and occupants with ease.

Views towards the surrounding mountains are framed with painterly precision, and the main living space gathers around a powerful central hearth.

Playful yet accomplished, the house celebrates the happy collisions of rural forms to create a cocooning and very luscious internal experience.

Designed to withstand the extremes of alpine living, this is a home that is at once robust, refined, and deeply connected to nature.

In this cinematic house tour, we explore how architecture can engage meaningfully with one of New Zealand’s most extraordinary landscapes.

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Architecture: RTA Studio
Build: Dunlop Builders
Landscape Designer: Baxter Design
Coloured Concrete: Peter Fell
Timber: Abodo
Furniture: Studio Italia
Tapware: Plumbline
Lighting: ECC
Fireplace: The Fire Dept.
Interior Walls: Rockcote

Home of the Year is brought to you in partnership with Peter Fell, Studio Italia, Dulux, CSR, and Feltex.