Eyrie comprises two houses near Kaiwaka. Each is barely larger than four sheets of plywood. They are made from wood, are off-grid and autonomous, their outsides burnt black. This project is part polemic, part escape. Holiday homes have become this country’s decadence.

Sub-prime estuarine site permitted a 1500m² palace. It forbade two 29m² cabins.But as the designers talk excitedly about Malevich's supremacy, they want a different vision for New Zealand's coastal future.

In these houses a history of prismatic abstraction is conflated with a poetic of small boats bobbing in a sea of grass. There are no doors. One climbs up boulders and in through a window instead. Cheshire Architects  hoped that in subverting the shorthand language of building these little constructions might feel like something other than and more than houses.