High in ridge of Bishopscourt in Cape Town, this excellent site resulted in the demolition of the existing house. The website was divided through the existing front yard, which rose considerably in the finish from the cul-p-sac below. The brand new building’s form, perched because it is inside a commanding position, was perceived in the start to become a pavilion looking over the grass and also the forested valley below.
The clients’ brief were built with a couple of specific needs orientation for the Constantia Valley and distant False Bay, and also the dramatic sights in the mountain tops above Kirstenbosch were essential, as was the focus on developing the website to increase your garden and lawn area. Following a brief the front yard was moved towards the southern boundary from the site to permit this and open the grass and also the gardens for the sun and mountain sights. You will find breathtaking vistas south and west in the sleeping rooms and living spaces as the pool and balconies are situated around the north-east side, inside a courtyard protected against the Southeaster gales through the intersecting linear forms of the home.
The triangular form of the website, and it is elevation over the street and steep incline, needed extensive excavation and retaining, to be able to give a front yard of acceptable gradient, and extensive building platform on a single level, and garden balconies over-all.
The double-winged roof, floating over the bed room wing, and virtually glass box-enclosed living spaces, would be the primary architectural features. They are accompanied by secondary architectural elements like the cantilevered finish from the primary entrance feature wall, the floating stone-clad fire place, continuous perimeter cantilever balconies towards the sleeping rooms and also the wrap-around cantilever eyebrow.
Finishes include: polished granite flooring, no carpets, no curtains and also the floating feature roof with clerestory lighting. The clients’ preference was towards a clever modernist atmosphere having a definitive northern European flair. The imported light gray granite floor foundations set a dark tone for any colour pattern of awesome greys instead of natural browns, a refreshing vary from prevailing trends.
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