Inside The World’s Most Secret House Built Into a Mountain (House Tour)

A secret house nestled into a grassy rock escarpment, Seascape is a romantic honeymoon cottage set within a tiny South Pacific cove. In a deeply romantic conception of a humble beachside cottage, Patterson Associates attempts to create feelings of stillness, harmony and connection. Seascape is ensconced above a rocky cove on a sprawling 4000-acre farm on New Zealand’s South Island. So remote, most people arrive at this secret house via helicopter or a long, winding farm track. The secret house is humble, designed to exist harmoniously within the pristine cove it inhabits. The house itself is small, with just three rooms – a lobby, a combined living and sleeping area and a bathroom. It features an undulating glass wall that offers a 180-degree view of powerful, crashing waves, just metres away. Seascape is designed as a place for couples to retreat to; the brief embedded in a kind of fantasy of a lovers&cave. Designed for only two occupants and simple in its arrangement, Seascape celebrates the simple rituals of life as a couple; bathing, sleeping, eating and connecting. This secret house is a vehicle to allow people to connect with each other and nature. Complementing a compact and simple floorplan, the views are all-encompassing and make the space feel much larger than its actual size. An interlocking geometric facade allows views both of the bay and out to rocky spires. Seascape is built using all-natural, local materials, including in-situ poured concrete floors...