The house that gives a whole new meaning to mobile home: Two-storey beachfront property can be pulled on a sled so you can get the best view (and avoid coastal erosion)

At first glance it’s a perfect beach house, with large airy windows, a modern wooden exterior and even a roof deck on top.

But if you look a little closer, it’s soon clear that this is not just any normal home.

This beach house has been especially designed to be rolled out of harm’s way – by being built on top of a sleds.

The beach house is one architect's answer to the corrosion zone to the planning restrictions along the corrosion zone in New Zealand

The extreme design has been built on the white sands of New Zealand’s scenic Coromandel Peninsula in the country’s north island, part of an erosion zone which requires all homes to be removable.

Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects has tackled the difficult problem by building it upon two thick wooden sleds, ensuring the home can be easily attached to a tractor and pulled away.

The home is a two-storey glazed facade, which has an open-plan living room and mezzanine bedroom behind.

Shutters lift up to uncover windows on each side of the house, and a roof deck is hidden behind the parapet walls.

The holiday retreat is designed to close up against the elements when it's not in use

Shutters lift up to uncover windows on each side of the house, and a roof deck is hidden behind the parapet walls

A family of five can use the hut as a holiday home and the three children sleep in a three-tiered bunk bed in the back room.

The company said: ‘The holiday retreat is designed to close up against the elements when not in use, and measures a mere 40 square meters.



‘It accommodates a family of five in a kitchen, dining, living area, a bathroom and two sleeping zones, the children’s accommodating a three tiered bunk.

'The site lies within the coastal erosion zone, where all building must be removable.



'This is taken literally and the hut is designed on two thick wooden sleds for movement back up the site or across the beach and onto a barge.'

