The Midden Garden Pavilion In Cape Town | Metropolis Design
Designed by Metropolis Design, The Midden Garden Pavilion In Cape Town forms part of a larger renovation to a freestanding villa located high up on the slopes of the Vlakkenberg. The clients required a pavilion within their extensive and beautiful garden, from which to appreciate the natural landscape around them.
Photography: Wieland Gleich
The site consists of a series of terraces, oriented north-south and falling to the east. The house is located over two terraces and overlooks the garden terrace below. There are significant mountain views to the north and sweeping views of the peninsula to the east. South-east winds are severe in summer. The existing garden terrace contained an ostentatious water folly at its southern end, comprising a water cascade falling into a pond with elaborate fountains. This feature is on axis to a large pool on the far end of the terrace, separated by a large expanse of garden. While this garden folly appealed to the new owners? sense of humor, they requested that it be ?toned down? and incorporated into a meaningful outdoor relaxation area for the appreciation of the back of Table Mountain to the north, a view they love, but cannot really appreciate from the house. The siting concept was to locate the new pavilion both as a termination of the garden, as a backdrop to the water feature and as an evocation of the mountain across the valley. It required both solidity and presence, transparency and lightness. The earth banks behind the pavilion we...
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