The Cliffs House

by Mason and Wales

Respectfully responding to its geographical siting and important heritage context, The Cliffs House modestly hugs its cliff-top location, offering curated vistas to an enviable landscape. Overlooking the Otago coastline, the deliberate orientation and select materiality ensure an efficient and sustainable home emerges, integrating storm, waste and rainwater systems, increased thermal mass and reduced reliance on active energy sources. Mason and Wales Architects references the modest familiar rural dwelling in form, scale and finish and proposes a home of appropriate purpose.