Timber Design Awards
Benniston – Collings Family Home
Jeremy Hanson talks of the villa’s consistent habit of facing the world with both its richest work and a welcoming verandah gives a human scale and a generous ambience for all.
With this family home we turned the villa inside out, back to front, kept the scrim, the bay window and the meat box. Threw in a brewery, a worm farm and a chicken run.
This villa has 3 woods, kauri, cedar and pine, and a skin of corrugated iron. Built on a tight budget and a family growing, it captures everything Jeremy references with human scale, leaning hallway doors (for leaning on) and ambience for children to engage with the love of the land.
It’s a little bit of England in the south pacific.
Photos by Simon Devitt
