Highveld House:
Gauteng, South Africa
How do you make the most of a beautiful site?
It helps to understand the site, experience it, and imagine how you’ll be living on it.
This house ‘slips’ down the slope, opening onto a secluded sweet spot from where you forget that you’re near a major city.
Designing the house was tricky because of a 4.5m roof line restriction. That is why the roof ended up following the slope of the land.
It took various attempts (fails) to arrive at this roof configuration. Because it was both unusual and simple, the solution eluded us. Until it was discovered through making models. Design is a process of discovery; it’s also a bit like detective work, gathering clues to build a case.
C76 Architecture oversaw construction
Project team: Thorsten Deckler, Anne Graupner, Nadine Naidoo, Guy Trangos, Stephen Reid
