House with Many Courtyards
Johannesburg
1997
Typology
Houses
Built
Programme
Residential
City
Johannesburg
Country
South Africa
Status
Awards
A house in an estate imagined as a series of courtyards the largest of which is defined by the garden wall on three sides, and the outer face of the house on the fourth. Given a view and a slope to the south, the house is one and a half rooms deep, giving every space a dual aspect.
Given this condition, the plan snakes across the site, holding spaces between the house and its neighbours, the house and the street, and the house and itself, doubling the accommodation- each indoor room has its own outdoor room, giving the house the sense of being a village, making its own sense of intimate urbanity in a sea of suburban space. The ground slab and the roof slabs define a pair of datums above which independent roofs rise to give emphasis and identity to the important spaces.
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