Monday, March 11, 2013

PROJECT EIGHT: BEAU CONSTANCE (2)


                       Award of Excellence Citation

The building programme called for a main house, meditation pavilion and guest cottage. The location is a new wine farm on a site of spectacular natural beauty. The design response achieves architecture of exquisite subtlety with minimum intervention on the pristine site, characterised by a minimalist design vocabulary.

                                  Architect's Motivation

The site has been cleared of alien vegetation and an extensive infrastructure program including new roads, a stormwater management system water and electrical reticulation, has been carried out.

Due to its topography, it has very limited visibility from surrounding roads and properties and only becomes visible from the Constantia Valley, some kilometres away. It incorporates both fertile rolling vineyards and rugged and rocky mountainside.

The steep slopes of the site fold around a kloof of sorts, with easterly and northerly orientation, and extend almost to the apex of the Vlakkenberg.








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