The Organic House, Bishopscourt

38, Bishopscourt Drive, Southern Suburbs, Cape Town, South Africa

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The Organic House, Bishopscourt

38, Bishopscourt Drive, Southern Suburbs, Cape Town, South Africa

Firm

Type

Residential › Private House

YEAR

2007

BUDGET

$1M - 5M

The brief for curvaciousness was a gut reaction against the typical orthogonal cliffhangers of Clifton in which the client had previously lived. The design was based on a series of overlapping splines that created interior and exterior spaces, balconies and double volumes. The home is structured by two bathroom cores at either end that have been cupped by a sinuous screen of Balau timber, and connected together with a timber-clad bridge – the bra-strap.