Winkelman Architecture Designs a Private Oasis on Hawaii’s Hanalei Bay
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Hanalei Valley
Set high along the northern ridge of Hanalei Valley, where the river enters the bay, this modestly sized lot posed contending opportunities and challenges. It is part of a high-end subdivision on Kauai’s North Shore.
The client’s desire to create a private oasis while also capturing the broad site views led to this novel approach for laying out a single-family program. Since neighboring homes tightly hem in the lot, dividing up the living spaces into separate structures and distributing them in a U-shaped arrangement open toward the views creates a private basin, a secret garden framed by architecture and oriented toward Kauai’s waterfall-striped mountains and the famous Hanalei Bay.
