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Cape Town, South Africa
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Kenmore
Cape Town, South Africa
With a narrow 14m-wide site, reduced further by two 3m setbacks and cavity walls, we were left with a maximum internal width of 7.44m. A key design objective was ensuring the home never felt constrained or narrow despite spatial limits.
The property, steep and narrow, necessitated a vertically stacked program; circulation serves as a functional necessity and sculptural element, guiding movement through compressed and expanded volumes, heightening the sense of ascent.
Living spaces, positioned at the uppermost level, capitalise on the site’s primary virtues: views of Table Mountain and direct connection to Signal Hill. This elevated placement transforms the living area into a panoramic terminus; an expansive, light-filled plane where transparency and spatial continuity frame and project life into the landscape.
The roof emerges as a sculptural gesture and the design’s primary protagonist; a planar element that is folded, bent and tilted to optimise the user’s gaze, reinforcing the building’s dialogue with its dramatic context.
The entry is deliberately restrained; introspective and contained. The stairwell, a dynamic interplay of carved volumes and looping forms, acts as both path and sculpture. Its rhythmic incisions and punched apertures modulating light and framing glimpses of surroundings, suggesting momentum upward and creating a sense of anticipation and release.
Materiality’s direct and expressive; raw concrete and bagged brickwork form the core palette, a nod to Cape Modernist lineage while emphasising tectonic honesty. Robust, tactile surfaces lend a sense of permanence and restraint, allowing texture, light, and form to carry the architectural narrative.
Despite the site's awkward orientation and challenges posed by limited winter sunlight, the elevated living level maximises solar exposure. Dual terraces mediate Cape Town’s opposing seasonal winds, offering flexibility and reinforcing adaptability to climate and context.
The property, steep and narrow, necessitated a vertically stacked program; circulation serves as a functional necessity and sculptural element, guiding movement through compressed and expanded volumes, heightening the sense of ascent.
Living spaces, positioned at the uppermost level, capitalise on the site’s primary virtues: views of Table Mountain and direct connection to Signal Hill. This elevated placement transforms the living area into a panoramic terminus; an expansive, light-filled plane where transparency and spatial continuity frame and project life into the landscape.
The roof emerges as a sculptural gesture and the design’s primary protagonist; a planar element that is folded, bent and tilted to optimise the user’s gaze, reinforcing the building’s dialogue with its dramatic context.
The entry is deliberately restrained; introspective and contained. The stairwell, a dynamic interplay of carved volumes and looping forms, acts as both path and sculpture. Its rhythmic incisions and punched apertures modulating light and framing glimpses of surroundings, suggesting momentum upward and creating a sense of anticipation and release.
Materiality’s direct and expressive; raw concrete and bagged brickwork form the core palette, a nod to Cape Modernist lineage while emphasising tectonic honesty. Robust, tactile surfaces lend a sense of permanence and restraint, allowing texture, light, and form to carry the architectural narrative.
Despite the site's awkward orientation and challenges posed by limited winter sunlight, the elevated living level maximises solar exposure. Dual terraces mediate Cape Town’s opposing seasonal winds, offering flexibility and reinforcing adaptability to climate and context.
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