House ASN

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House ASN
The original house was a very run-down 1950’s bungalow in an established area of Johannesburg,
The client requested that we completely renovated and enlarged it for his family.
The basic footprint was north-facing, making it easy to base the new building on this footprint, removing most of the internal ground floor walls to create a large open space for the entrance hall, family room, kitchen and dining room.
The approach to the house was designed to include a walkway over the water feature with a podium for a sculpture. An existing study was kept for the owner’s wife as a home office, as she sees clients at home, with a view of a Regardt van der Meulen sculpture over the water feature.
A new bar was added next to an expansive lanai, with a 12m frameless folding door opening the living spaces and bar to the lanai. A new pool with an adjoining fire-pit was built on the north side of the property. The family room is a double volume space behind the lanai, getting full north sun in winter through the floor to ceiling windows above the lanai.
The existing downstairs bedrooms were converted into a guest suite, gym and kid’s playroom, complete with a climbing wall.
The new first floor includes a pajama lounge in the double volume space over the family room, main suite, two kid’s suites, and a study. Special attention was paid to the security between the ground and the first floor.
As the first floor was too narrow to create a north-facing bathroom for the main suite the roof was raised over the bathroom to bring in north light above the passage roof, as well as east-facing sliding doors onto a balcony, screened by a hedge in rusted steel planters.
The main suite has a suspended couch for reading on the balcony, allowing it to swing gently in the breeze.