This pavilion in the landscape is an addition to
the ISAA Award-winning villa of 1991, distanced by a glass
covered walkway.
The concept is of an elongated vaulted roof shading various
habitable spaces, closed from the rear by a spine wall and
opening to the forest opposite the stream to which the site
abutts. This is in essence the veranda of a lightweight
roof covering a large semi-outdoor space divided by panels.
To give this physical expression the spine is of bare reinforced
concrete, punctured to accommodate barbecue, kitchen counter
and ablutions arc; the roof of the corrugated sheeting on
bowed steel beams; and the floors are of oxide-dyed granolithic
panels. The internal panels are finished in ochre, the remaining
spatial definition is provided by way of frameless glazing.
An actual veranda defines the eastern end facing the original
residence. Unlike the interior space, this floor is decked
and the roof is exposed metal sheeting. A glazed covered
walk joins the two residences.
While acknowledging its compositional debt to Mies, and
its linear plan and vaulted roof plane to Murcutt, this
is an accomplished design of considerable formal strength
and elegance, and the high quality resolution and the refinements
of detail is lauded.
References: NIA Journal 1/1992; Architecture South Africa
May/June 2004.