Home Design Inspiration

A new residential dwelling situated in Swellendam, rural South Africa, has a wonderful background in the region of Langeberg mountains and valleys. Because the beauty of this area is nicknamed “God’s Window.” By the local population, Taking advantage of the beauty of it, a house designed by GASS prefer the shape and arrangement are simple in their architecture, this is to further facilitate the intervention fine with “lie down gently” on the landscape. These buildings house a lot done with a texture using local materials, are more reminiscent of the origin of the clear Southern Africa. Besides the architecture, they also plan to create sustainable homes and land, for example by clearing the ground of non-native species invade, such as black wattle. The water used was also from the area, which makes the house more independent from the perspective of water, and eliminate the connection to the city water supply line.

Buildings with simple textures and shapes, made to be more oriented to the site, and involve the surrounding environment. Constructed consisting of three discrete box structures that create three sides of a personal page. Form the largest box used as a place that is more common, such as entertainment areas, living room and kitchen space. In this box has a glass façade and a roof that opens itself up entirely to the environment. The opposite is done by making small boxes flanking the sides to create the page, including personal domain for bedrooms and bathrooms, as well as in a side room used as a film. The building consists of brick walls, then roof using a thick concrete. The orientation of the three buildings is the perimeter to a page that creates a special relationship with the mountain environment. With the quality of structural and building materials that are emphasized by the line of the main roof structure rose into the sky, is in direct dialogue with the “Window of God”, as if the earth were communicating with the sky.

[GASS]