Eastbourne House | Stevens Lawson Architects

Eastbourne House | Stevens Lawson Architects

In New Zealand, Eastbourne House by Stevens Lawson Architects nestles into a hillside to enrich its engagement with the landscape, light and harbour views.
There is a particular quality of light that exists at the edge of Eastbourne, that slender beachside settlement hugging the eastern shores of Wellington Harbour, pinned between the Remutaka ranges and the open sea. It is a light that arrives differently depending on the hour: white and clarifying at noon, golden and long at dusk, the water below shifting from jade to ink as the afternoon recedes. It was this quality, and the views it illuminates, that shaped every decision Stevens Lawson Architects made when they began conceiving a family home on a steep, bush-covered hillside here.

The result, known simply as Eastbourne House, is as much an act of landscape as it is of architecture. The site presented itself as a kind of puzzle. Steep and concave, folded into the hill at the base of a quiet suburban cul-de-sac, the land offered both challenge and gift. The challenge was a footprint so constrained by gradient that a conventional house was out of the question. The gift was elevation, and with it, commanding views across the harbour that most homes can only gesture toward. A headland to the south shelters the site from the prevailing wind, creating a microclimate that is, by Eastbourne standards, quietly generous. The kind of thing you feel before you understand it.

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