West Wānaka Road 

Roys Peninsula Wānaka New Zealand

Located on a secluded 23-hectare site surrounded by the lakes and mountains of Wānaka on New Zealand’s South Island, this Fearon Hay-designed home was created with the utmost respect for its natural setting. Synchronicity/Shepherd’s Hut hunkers down into the landscape, a muted cedar, glass and concrete structure that sits unobtrusively in the untamed landscape. “We wanted to make sure the building had respect for the environment,” says architect Tim Hay. “It will become more integrated into the landscape in the years to come, potentially even invisible.”