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AWARDS OF MERIT 2008
       

 

EPA STUDIO : DURBAN

For JAVA TRENCH (PTY) LTD

by ELPHICK PROOME ARCHITECTS

While working in an established modernist vocabulary, this glass and steel Miesian box is carefully crafted and specific to its site. Due to the steepness of the topography the building is split over three levels.

The whole is covered with a widely over-sailing roof, inclined in acknowledgement of the longitudinal cross-section. A strong design concept perfectly adjusts this project to its site creating comfortable fit with topography and nature.

The large volumes the creation of poetic spaces and the sensitive detailing are all resolved with architectural finesse and high degree of merit.