The client's brief called for a family
orientated home suitable for indoor/
outdoor entertainment that maximizes
the views to the north. The result is a
1100m² sculptural piece of architecture
that is an extreme transformation from
the previously modest single story.
With every room in the house opening
outdoors, linking the home with the
landscaped garden, indoor/outdoor
living is guaranteed. Werner van der
Meulen used morphed steels forms that
wrap around and frame the structure by
the use of parasitic architecture. From
the street, the boldly designed offshutter boundary wall with black steel
shapes creeping over predicts that this is
no ordinary piece of architecture.
The black steel sliding garage doors of
the four new garages that were added on
top of the existing house, combine with
the sculptural steel forms of the guard
house and porte cochere. Diagonal strip
lights featured within the wall of the
entrance create an abstract pattern at
night that guides visitors to the entrance
gate.
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Steel, glass and concrete are
prominently used in Kloof Road House
and have been integrated into the
design, from the boundary wall all the
way to the interior. The angled steel
roof of the entrance hall overhangs
the double volume window and glass
front door at the entrance, while the
sculptural steel staircase is visible
behind the window.
The wall of the entrance is clad with
natural timber in a herringbone pattern
to soften the harshness of the steel, glass
and concrete interior, while the backlit