Architects create an elevated residence, with a blackened timber structure, that can serve as a small hotel with ocean views.

Architects designed an energy-efficient, timber-frame house for a client with limited mobility who desired views of the surrounding countryside on New Zealand’s South Island.

With a new structure, the architects responded to their client’s passion for barns by incorporating into the design traditional qualities of barns—generous spaces, repetitive timber frame—while creating a complex interior for modern living.