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The first building houses
the majority of the staff
and is the pragmatic
one; rectilinear, bold
and efficient
between the two buildings, both in their forms
and through their relationship with the ground and
water of the dam.
The first building – the building that houses the
majority of the staff – was to be the pragmatic one,
rectilinear, bold and efficient, but one that defied
conventions. The offices are located one storey
up, harnessing the view of the dam to the north
and the Bronberge mountains to the south-west.
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The suspended offices are anchored by a triple
volume entrance foyer and, on the opposite end, by
an off-shutter concrete blade wall, through which
the office wing pierces.
The entrance foyer is a thick-walled cube – a
‘server’ to the building - punctured only with slit
windows, but glazed from top to bottom on its
eastern entrance wall, as if the concrete blade
wall in the distance was disconnected from it and
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