The 200-Year House – Inside An Immersive Central Otago Home Designed To Last For Centuries

What if a house was designed to last not 50 or even 100 years, but two whole centuries? What difference would that make when it came to its design? That’s the question Tony Koia asked when creating a new home in Central Otago.

“We’re focused on the ‘whole of life’ for a house,” says Koia, founder of Koia Architects. “The building code focuses on a lifespan of 50 years, but we have to go beyond that. We should be going forwards and creating houses that can last for 200 years. If you do that, you can make totally different choices; you have different criteria for using products and measuring their costs.”

Longevity wasn’t the only priority for Koia. The house in the upmarket neighbourhood of Bendemeer also had to be integrated into the 6742 square metre site, to decide for itself how it wanted to be placed into the land, and to fit into the environs both aesthetically and functionally.

Read the full feature on homemagazine.nz

Architecture: Koia Architects
Build: Bayshore Builders
Timber Cladding: RK Timbers
Louvres: Louvretec
Internal Coloured Concrete: Peter Fell

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