Inside The World’s Most Secret House Built Into a Mountain (House Tour)

A secret house nestled into a grassy rock escarpment, Seascape is a romantic honeymoon cottage set within a tiny South Pacific cove. In a deeply romantic conception of a humble beachside cottage, Patterson Associates attempts to create feelings of stillness, harmony and connection. Seascape is ensconced above a rocky cove on a sprawling 4000-acre farm on New Zealand’s South Island. So remote, most people arrive at this secret house via helicopter or a long, winding farm track. The secret house is humble, designed to exist harmoniously within the pristine cove it inhabits. The house itself is small, with just three rooms – a lobby, a combined living and sleeping area and a bathroom. It features an undulating glass wall that offers a 180-degree view of powerful, crashing waves, just metres away. Seascape is designed as a place for couples to retreat to; the brief embedded in a kind of fantasy of a lovers’ cave. Designed for only two occupants and simple in its arrangement, Seascape c