A four bedroom home on a 436m2 site in central Queenstown, built to make a tight inner-town section work hard. The street elevation gives little away — behind it the house opens into a double height, broken-plan living and dining space that carries the full height of the building.

A steel mesh stairwell runs through the centre of the plan and splits the accommodation evenly, two bedrooms up and two down, across 218m2 of floor area with two and a half bathrooms and a 36m2 garage. Warm timber linings and exposed structure temper the industrial detailing, and the site sits a short flat walk from the botanical gardens, the lakefront and the town centre.