Landscaping
SALI Awards
T
he Spanish Farm Guest Lodge was designed along environmentally
friendly lines. The four units have roof gardens as well as four
interlinked eco-pools. Glass skylights bring in natural light and
seasonal warmth. The lodges and prolific landscaping are designed to
blend into the natural fynbos backdrop of the mountain slope.
The pools are linked with filtering ponds planted up with sedges such
as Cyperus papyrus and Cyperus alternifolius, along with the silvergrey shrublet indigenous to mountain streambeds (in other areas
of South Africa), Gomphostigma virgatum (River Bells) and the rush,
Photographs: Graham von Hoesslin
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