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Year Name Location Status
2020 Wonderdal Hazendal Wine Estate Built
2020 House Sithole Pringle Bay Project
2020 Upper Bloem Bo Kaap, Cape Town Project
2019 Xai Xai School Xai Xai, Mozambique Project
2018 Boulders Visitors Centre Boulders, Simon's Town Project
2018 236 Buitengracht Bo-Kaap, Cape Town Built
2018 JBWF Jeffreys Bay In Progress
2018 CCF Civic Centre, Cape Town In Progress
2018 250 Buitengracht 250 Buitengracht, Cape Town Built
2018 Leyden House, Unit 5 Buitensingel St, Cape Town Built
2017 V&A Aquarium shop V&A Waterfront, Cape Town Built
2017 Scatec Solar Offices V&A Waterfront, Cape Town Built
2015 Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi Project
2015 Disa Primary School Hout Bay In Progress
2015 27 Clovelly Avenue Vredehoek Project
2014-2017 De Waterkant De Waterkant, Cape Town Built
2014 43 Lion Street Bo-Kaap Built
2014 Skukuza Restaurant Kruger National Park Built
2014 The Diamond Works Stellenbosch, Franschoek, Windhoek, OR Tambo Airport, Seychelles Built
2014 Lammershoek Farm Darling, West Coast In Progress
2013 Out of India Mumbai International Airport, India Built
2013 Made in SA V&A Waterfront Built
2013 Indaba Lifestyle OR Tambo Airport, Gauteng Built
2013 Bambara OR Tambo Airport, Gauteng Project
2013 House Scheibe Silverhurst, Cape Town Built
2013 Urban Design Pretoria & Rondebosch In Progress
2013 House Reddy Hall Chartwell North, Gauteng In Progress
2012 Murdocks V&A Waterfront Built
2012 Light Fittings Cape Town In Progress
2012 Balustrade Furniture Private Residence, Cape Town Built
2012 Kenya Duty Free Nairobi International Airport, Kenya Project
2011 Out of Africa Kids OR Tambo Airport, Gauteng Project
2011 House Rese Gordon's Bay, Western Cape Project
2010 Signal Hill Bo-Kaap Project
2010 Langbaai House Voelklip, Hermanus Built
2010 Voortrekker Road Maitland, Cape Town Project
2010 The Curator Buchanan Square, Salt River, Cape Town Built
2009 African Relish Prince Albert Built
2008 African Origins V&A Waterfront, CTIA, OR Tambo Built
2008 House Sibanda Yserfontein, Western Cape In Progress
2007 House J Simonstown Built
2007 Robben Island Shop Robben Island, Table Bay Project
2006 Afro Cafe Salzburg, Austria Built
2006 Afro Coffee Exhibit various Built
2006 Serengeti Tented Camp Wagakuria, Serengeti, Tanzania Built
2006, 2012, 2018 Tanur Jewellery Sandton City, V&A Waterfront Built
2005 Canterbury Square Canterbury Street, Cape Town Built
2005 Central Park Dublin, Ireland Project
2004 Ella Street Houses Bo-Kaap Built
2004 111 on 11th Guest House Voelklip, Hermanus Built
2004 Mystic Rose Muizenberg, Cape Town Built
2004 African Eco Store OR Tambo International Airport, Gauteng Built
2004 House Fitzgerald Constantia, Cape Town Built
2003 Leyden House Gardens, Cape Town Built
2003 Breede River Malgas, Breede River, Western Cape In Progress
2003 NGK Synod Gardens, Cape Town Project
2002 Protea Hotels Lagos, Nigieria Built
2002 218 Buitengragt Street Bo-Kaap, Cape Town Built
2001 & 2019 Kirstenbosch Shop Kirstenbosch Gardens, Cape Town Built
2001 Out Of This World V&A Waterfront Built
2001 Wolpe Balusrade Maitland, Cape Town Built
2001 Clarins Furniture Clarins Headquarters, Cape Town Built
2001 House Aucamp-Oosthuizen Vredehoek, Cape Town Built
2000 & 2013 The Parks Shops Kruger National Park, Addo Elephant Park, Tsitsikamma National Park Built
2000 Restoration Work Stellenbosch, Western Cape Built
2000 Brunswick Terraces Tamboerskloof, Cape Town Built
1999 - present Out Of Africa OR Tambo Int Airport Built
1999 Wine Ways V&A Waterfront Demolished
1999 Pinns Jewellery V&A Waterfront Demolished
1999 House Malan Voƫlklip, Hermanus Built
1999 Trevoyan Guest House Gardens, Cape Town Built
1999 St. Francis Bay Hotel St Francis Bay, Eastern Cape Built
1997 Glass Table Cape Town Built
1997 House Vith Hout Bay, Cape Town Built
1997 5 Roodehek Street Gardens, Cape Town Built
1996 Fireplace Design for Living Expo Built
1996 Spine Staircase Bo-Kaap, Cape Town Built
1996 African Image V&A Waterfont Demolished
1996 45 Leeuwen Street Bo-Kaap Built
1996 Catherine Moore Hyde Park Corner Built
1996 Mummy Bureau Private Residence, Cape Town Built
1995 (not yet fertilized) Egg Chair Cape Town Project
1994 Whale Seat Cape Town Project
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    The Voelklip house forms part of a series of projects by Team Architects exploring the transformation of the courtyard type in response to the constraints and opportunities presented by specific sites and programmes.

    At a general level the courtyard offers a focus to the collection of rooms seen to be necessary in the contemporary middle class home, and in the context of the Cape, it offers an external space sheltered from often extreme weather conditions. On the other hand, like many coastal locations, the site presents an extraordinary richness of views, drawing the attention of the eye out towards the horizon.

    The primary tension between turning inwards and turning outwards is central to understanding the design of this house. The second tension inherent in the site is between the views to the south east and south west (the sea view to the south blocked by an existing house), and the path of the sun from northeast to northwest. The third is between access to the garden and access to the view. Given the large size of the house and the small size of the site, the decision to lift the main living suite to the top of the house, and open it out to the views, whilst focusing the ground floor around the courtyard, turning a secure and solid wall to the street, has produced a house which is quite rationally upside-down, inside-out, and back to front.

    The need to bring north light into the center of the plan and to shield the upper terrace from the afternoon sun has resulted in a structural grid carrying generous and gently folded concrete canopies. The shift in section which catches the sun and the view back to the mountains is echoed in plan by an offset between structure and enclosure in the plan to make space for circulation and service spaces. These two shifts animate the surfaces of the building, and allow for a variety of local solutions to the fenestration in response to view, sun, shading, security and display.

    The building is strong and clear and refreshingly free from the often fussy and arbitrary stylistic tropes that seem to overwhelm so much recent domestic building in the Cape. It is a rational piece of architecture and sound precedent for further development.

2010

Langbaai House

  •  

    The Voelklip house forms part of a series of projects by Team Architects exploring the transformation of the courtyard type in response to the constraints and opportunities presented by specific sites and programmes.

    At a general level the courtyard offers a focus to the collection of rooms seen to be necessary in the contemporary middle class home, and in the context of the Cape, it offers an external space sheltered from often extreme weather conditions. On the other hand, like many coastal locations, the site presents an extraordinary richness of views, drawing the attention of the eye out towards the horizon.

    The primary tension between turning inwards and turning outwards is central to understanding the design of this house. The second tension inherent in the site is between the views to the south east and south west (the sea view to the south blocked by an existing house), and the path of the sun from northeast to northwest. The third is between access to the garden and access to the view. Given the large size of the house and the small size of the site, the decision to lift the main living suite to the top of the house, and open it out to the views, whilst focusing the ground floor around the courtyard, turning a secure and solid wall to the street, has produced a house which is quite rationally upside-down, inside-out, and back to front.

    The need to bring north light into the center of the plan and to shield the upper terrace from the afternoon sun has resulted in a structural grid carrying generous and gently folded concrete canopies. The shift in section which catches the sun and the view back to the mountains is echoed in plan by an offset between structure and enclosure in the plan to make space for circulation and service spaces. These two shifts animate the surfaces of the building, and allow for a variety of local solutions to the fenestration in response to view, sun, shading, security and display.

    The building is strong and clear and refreshingly free from the often fussy and arbitrary stylistic tropes that seem to overwhelm so much recent domestic building in the Cape. It is a rational piece of architecture and sound precedent for further development.

2010

Langbaai House