Gabriel?s Garden by Kate Otten Architects
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Gabriel?s Garden Pavilion, Johannesburg, South Africa (Home Office Pavilions in Historic Garden of a National Monument)
The site for this home office is the lowest garden platform of the Historic Terraced Garden of a…
Text from Kate Otten Architects: Gabriel?s Garden Pavilion, Johannesburg, South Africa (Home Office Pavilions in Historic Garden of a National Monument)
The site for this home office is the lowest garden platform of the Historic Terraced Garden of a 1930?s house ? now a National Monument ? on the Westcliff ridge in, Johannesburg.
The building is conceptualized as a landscape; as part of the language of the garden. Garden and building interchange, reflecting and framing each other.The pavilion is made of two rectilinear forms that nestle against, but do not touch, two powerful ramped stone retaining walls. These existing garden walls became the edges of the building ? thus starts the blurring of boundaries between inside and out; between garden and building.The new building, while quite large, does not impact on the existing historic house or its setting. It is carefully sited and the height specifically designed such that, even from the lowest terrace, the full view of the existing historic house and the garden terraces is maintained...
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