With the clients' love of mid-century modernism and the existing home being of the same era, our brief was to reclaim the aura and physical materiality of what came before.

Paparoa was an exercise in balancing quality living with budget limitations on a site with flooding and planning constraints. The site was also located under a 100-year-old oak tree, and its retention was integral to the brief. With the clients' love of mid-century modernism and the existing home being of the same era, our brief was to reclaim the aura and physical materiality of what came before.