Concept

This site is a six acre piece of highveld

 

The owners and builders, Scott and Linda Brebnor

 

The house began as the acto f habitation on a piece of paper.

 

A circle, beginning ate the Rocks, is marked out on the ground. The contours, man's abstracted interpretation and dimensioning of the landscape, are terraced inte the circle, and planted in two alternating Straits of grass.

 

The terraces are continuous and sweep up along the rimo f the circle as roofs, weaving the ground into the sky, containing in its thickness the sheltered habitable part.

 

The trusses open the roof to the air, whose hollowness supports the space, traps the clouds, pours off the rains.

 

The circle of the buildings walling the oasis are, beginning at the Rocks, the house, Workshops and garage, the cottage, three huts loosely woven with the Earth, the historic antecenden and the horselike stables.

The house extends the originally most habitable parto f the site, the Rocks. The house is a process of making the Rocks habitable.

 

The morphology of the Rocks, aswhole shapes with sections broken off revealing cross sections, is echoed in the cuts of the roof.

 

The moa marks out this cut on the ground.

 

The section is the archetypal house, with its roof burst open weaving the sky.

 

The roof stops down to the ground to be walked on.

 

The scale of human contours are generated by activity ripples, and range from the oasis scale outsider, to the naced body contours of the barthroom.

 

The living landscape is an eddy in the space run through…

 

The bedroom is snug between the Rocks. The kithcen leads out the land.

 

The original ground focussed by the imprint of buildings, geometric clearing, dimension with pathways reaching to its limits.