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Browsing Archive (Architecture) by Subject "Influence of vernacular architecture"
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(2013-10-03)House Bertie-Roberts (1966) is located in Camps Bay, on an exposed rocky corner site. The entrance route from below is guided by the sides of garden retaining walls that lead under a cantilevered edge of the house above. ...
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(2013-10-03)The entrance and main circulation route in House Blommaert (1982) in Stellenbosch orientate the visitor towards Table Mountain. The circulation routes are defined to accentuate their function. The internal route from living ...
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(2013-10-15)House Brink (2003) on Paradise Beach, Langebaan. The chimney to this house provides a counterpoint to the linearity of the house. The house has few street facing openings and extensive sea facing glazing to the underside ...
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(2013-10-03)For House Fagan in McGregor (2008), designed for his nephew Johan, Fagan submerged the garage under the house to, at a functional level, facilitate service spaces to be located out of sight and to partially hide the garage ...
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(2013-10-03)Perched on the Atlantic face of the Cape Peninsula, this house is in an area which was practically uninhabited until the 20th century. Its savage climate, with wind and rain coming in off the southern ocean, discouraged ...
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(2013-10-03)Designed by the architect for his parents, Judge and Mrs. H.A. Fagan, the white walls and simple treatment of this house set high on the hillside of Bishopscourt Estate, with a view of Table Mountain and the Cape Flats, ...
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(2013-10-08)House Levin (1969), Saldanha Bay, Western Cape. For this house Fagan mediates the requirement for open and flexible space with the cellular nature of quieter and more private spaces, all within a controlled container. The ...
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(2013-10-08)House Luckhoff, Onrust River [Onrus River or Onrusrivier], Western Cape, 1981. Fagan's predilection for the stereotomic quality of the Cape vernacular wall results in his houses displaying a masonry architecture that acts ...
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(2013-10-08)House Mitchell (2005), Newlands, Cape Town. Fagan's knowledge of boat building and the compromises that need to be reached between weight and durability versus speed has played a significant role in his material choices. ...
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(2013-10-09)House Patterson (1966) in Somerset West was built for a potter. It is hidden from the street by a solid boundary wall, punctured only by a shuttered opening. The “house draws one, as into a spiral shell, towards the central ...
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(2013-10-15)House Raynham (1967), Fernwood Estate, Newlands, Cape Town. For this house, Fagan reinterprets the plastic quality of the vernacular by moulding the entire built form to respond to site conditions, entry and internal ...
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(2013-10-15)House Wolfaardt (1965), a farm house at Skaaprivierplaas in the Koue Bokkeveld, Western Cape. The house has a courtyard surrounded by buildings on three sides. A simple angled roof light provides light to the kitchen.
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(2013-10-08)For the workers’ housing at Ida’s Valley farm near Stellenbosch (1975), Fagan employs the stereotomic quality of the Cape vernacular in a masonry architecture that acts both as structure and enclosure, where brick walls ...
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(2013-10-09)Fagan’s own holiday house, Paradys in Langebaan, was built in 2003. It’s design had to subscribe to aesthetic guidelines in terms of wall finish, roof pitch and materials, but he introduced a Mediterranean barrel-vaulted ...
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