This vacation beach house located near Cape Town, South Africa, is carefully crafted to respond directly to the brief from the client, a maverick businessman from Johannesburg. Primary requirements were to create an extraordinary living experience, conceptually capture the client?s brief to create a single space vacation house and fully embrace the remarkable seaside location. 

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Architects: Elphick Proome Architects

Location: Rooiels, Goedehoop Estate, Cape Town, South Africa

Area: 885.0 sqm

Project Year: 2013

Photographs: Dennis Guichard

Other Participants : Apocalypse Mechanical Monsters

© Dennis Guichard
From the architect. This vacation beach house located near Cape Town, South Africa, is carefully crafted to respond directly to the brief from the client, a maverick businessman from Johannesburg. Primary requirements were to create an extraordinary living experience, conceptually capture the client?s brief to create a single space vacation house and fully embrace the remarkable seaside location. 

© Dennis Guichard

© Dennis Guichard

Capitalizing on its unique context with panoramic views across the Atlantic Ocean, the house is thus conceived as a minimal steel framed glass box with a hull shaped hardwood clad roof to facilitate distant views...