Lowveld House

Situated on a rolling hill landscape, this house was designed to capitalise on the views of the surrounding hills. The client’s brief was to design a place where they could raise their family and enjoy the relaxed environment the site has to offer. The house was placed on the landscape in order to maximize northern exposure to all rooms. The resulting solution was to create two longer wings responding to the landscape with a central courtyard connecting the two flanks. The private rooms and semi private areas was split between the two wings. The connection between the buildings became the entrance foyer which by means of natural light automatically draws you to the public side. These entertaining spaces spills out onto a generously covered stoop that overlooks the landscape and a private dam. The material palette of the house was kept simple which allowed for the logical construction of the house. Smaller courtyard spaces were created to allow different rooms to connect to the landscape.