Architects: Walker Warner Architects
Project: Hale Nukumoi Beach House
Project architects: Greg Warner, Thomas Clapper
Interior Designer: Stone Interiors
Landscape Architect: Ron Lutsko, Lutsko Associates
Builder: RS Weir General Contracting
Location: Hawaii
Year 2018
Photographer: Matthew Millman
Text by Walker Warner Architects
Hale Nukumoi is the quintessential Hawaiian beach house: open, casual, and unfussy. Adjacent to a popular public beach, the house makes skillful use of oversized sliding doors, a custom rainscreen, and layered plantings to provide much-needed privacy when desired.
The home’s material palette seems to spring from the land itself: coral-colored concrete, peeled ohia logs, and dark tile that recalls nearby lava flows.
“The home’s material palette seems to spring from the land itself: coral-coloured concrete, peeled ohia logs, and dark tile that recalls nearby lava flows,” said lead architect Greg Warner of Walker Warner Architects
“The house makes skilful use of oversized sliding doors, a custom rain screen, and layered plantings that close the house when desired for privacy,” said architect Greg Warner.
Inside, the home’s modest but thoughtful footprint provides ship-like efficiency with numbered bunks, hooks, and storage baskets to help younger guests organize their belongings. The house is ready-made for easy vacationing with extended family and friends.
