It looks like a giant wooden box on the sandy beach but it is an amazing tiny house. The Whangapoua Sled House is located near the shores of the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand.
Built by Ken Crosson of Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects, the house has large glass doors, a retractable folding door that exposes the upper floor, and ample wall shelves for extra storage. On the first floor, there is a small dining area, kitchen and a separate room that has three bunk beds.
Measuring just 40 square meters, the holiday retreat is specially designed to close up like a box in order to protect itself from the elements when not in use. It can fit in a family of five in a kitchen/dining/living area and dedicated sleeping spaces. Closed up, the rough macrocarpa cladding blends into the landscape and perches unobtrusively on the dunes. The rear being clad in "flat sheet" a cheap building material found in many traditional New Zealand holiday homes.
The house is totally sustainable from its modest size to the use of timber in its cladding, structure, lining and joinery and from its worm tank waste system to the separate potable grey water tanks. This is a new way of looking at holiday living in this sensitive dune environment.
Here are pictures of its interiors:
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