This is the architecture we believe in.
We were approached by the client who had purchased a property in Constantia, Cape Town, with great views and immense potential. The garden was beautiful and well-established, but the existing house left much to be desired.
It was decided early on in the design process that in order to preserve the garden and to achieve savings on structure, the new house should be positioned largely on the footprint of the original structure, but all traces of the original house would be erased, and the new dwelling would look as if it had always belonged on this site.
The client’s brief was to design a family home providing the necessary flow for simultaneous privacy and entertaining, and has strong relationships between living spaces and the garden. All the available view opportunities of Table Mountain and surrounds had to be exploited to their full potential.