Church Street Bo Kaap
Cape Town
2015
Typology
Houses
Urbanism
Heritage
Programme
Residential
City
Cape Town
Country
South Africa
Status
Awards
A project for a creative couple with a keen interest in Cape Town's modern architecture. Like many houses in the Bo Kaap, their home lacked connection to the external environment. The project was conceived to bring light into the dark interior, to provide a terrace and a rooftop landscape with views out to the city and the mountain, whilst respecting the streetscape, the existing building and the community.
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The ground floor is opened up to allow light to enter from the fanlight above the front door front, the side, and most importantly from above. The light from each source imparts a slightly different shade of white to the surfaces it touches, changing across the time of the day and the season of the year.
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The key to the project is the stair which climbs up between sculptural walls, linking the spaces across half levels arranged to give the sense of a continuous space rather than a series of stacked floors. The route which starts at the street climbs all the way to the roof, ending in a spectacular view of Table Mountain, tying the space of the interior into the topographic matrix of the city.
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