“When you come away from a building and feel pretty excited, not because of the building but because of something that has gone on within you while you were in that building – then you are getting pretty close to architecture”
— John Scott (‘Of Woolsheds, Houses and People’, 1973)

“In the Werry House, the architecture mediates between light and dark, high and low, open and closed, interior and exterior. The supporting structure and the palette of materials determine the identity of the spaces: volumes with well-considered compositions of window openings in the façade, finely detailed canopies, gutters and rainwater pipes give the project its character. The house is firmly anchored in its surroundings and bears influences from both the local Maori building culture and innovative spatial insights from the second half of the 20th century. Without unnecessary bombast or monumentality, John Scott places the human senses at the centre of his design.