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  • Grand Designs Australia

    Simplicity BY THE SEA

    May 17, 2017 5 minutes
    WORDS // JOHN WILLIAMS

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    HOUSE STILT HOUSE

    LOCATION PUKERUA BAY, NORTH ISLAND

    Guy Marriage is a lecturer in construction methodology at the Victoria University School of Architecture in Wellington, teaching his students how to design buildings that will “stand up”, as he puts it. Having never actually built a house himself, he was to put his knowledge and experience to test.

    “I think it’s the birthright and the want of every architect to build their own place,” says Guy. “I love the process of building and it’s a pity that so few architects participate in it.”

    Unable to finance his holiday home project independently, Guy pooled his resources with members of his extended Wellington-based family — cousin Briony Ellis and her husband Roger Wood — to design a modern-day Kiwi bach at Pukerua Bay, a half-hour

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