Make your parents happy by building them a house. Christine and David’s house is a family home in the truest sense of the word. It was designed by their architect daughter, Amanda, for their retirement, with the knowledge that future generations of the extended family—including Amanda, her partner, Adam, and their one-year-old, Awa—will see it as their place now and for decades down the line. Inspired by her academic research into precolonial Maori structures that were partly dug into the lan…
