‘Wildesering’ responds to a need to facilitate an intimate understanding of its surroundings and explores the South African tradition of living life on the front ‘stoep’. The site for this bushveld home is a beautiful little game farm on the outskirts of Pretoria. The architect wanted to explore the idea of a bushveld hideaway that figuratively grows out of its surroundings by imitating the free flowing branches of the numerous Wildesering (Burkea Africana), Boekenhout (Cape Beech) Lekkerbreek (Ochna Pulchra) and a various other variety of trees surrounding the home. “I wanted to let a walk t