ARCHITECTURE: JAUN VAN WYK
VISUALIZATION: SPECTRUM
COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA
Entry from the lower level of this site to the upper terraces gradually reveals this house situated on the lower slopes of Signal Hill. The house is a simple assembly of spaces arranged on three levels and designed around clearly defined daily experiences and domestic rituals. Horizontal floor and roof planes extend beyond the vertical divisions and end with abrupt floating edges. The essence of the design is a confluence of this: the boundlessness of views unique to the topography, contrasted with the intimacy that domesticity and the creation of refuge can offer.
