Redbank – Two Paddocks
Clyde, Aotearoa New Zealand

Project Team

Landscape Architect :  Wraight + Associates
Stone Mason :  Leon Kiel
Client  : Two Paddocks
Project Status: Completed

Redbank was formerly a ‘crop and food’ research farm located near Clyde, Central Otago, in dramatic scenery and extreme climate conditions.

Project Objectives

• Develop a master plan for the entire site and a detailed design for the winery and tasting buildings.
• Settle the new building and car parking area into this unique rural alpine landscape.
• Extrapolate and harness the site’s special character.

Key features

• Introduction of landscape interventions at key moments within the broader site that generate a transitional experience from the public road network to the site’s interior, illuminating the site’s special character.
• A ‘Public face’ to the tasting rooms incorporating visitor car parking and outdoor seating area.
• Re-use of existing resources from the site – e.g. stone
• Establishes a consistent site-wide palette of materials that is employed to create compositions responding to specific site conditions and character