Butterfly Magalies Water’s edge
Situated on the canal edge in The Islands Estate, with views towards the Magalies mountains. A slender stand, that enforces a long and narrow planning logic. This created the opportunity to place distance and thereby privacy from the street. A side-entry garage further concentrates the living spaces towards the canal side of the property. The roof responds to the elongated plan form, in the form of a central slab over the double volume; acting as a gutter, for the butterfly mono-pitched roofs over the main spaces
The open-plan ground floor caters for large scale entertaining and lives out to an amply sized portion of the garden next to the waterfront. Additional amenities include a pool, boma and separate covered patio. The first floor is privacy oriented and provides the owner with 3 spacious bedrooms and a study. The first floor extends over the ground floor volumes, to create a sense of floating
The aesthetic was determined by creating privacy from the street and adjacent stands: Use of screen walls on balconies, strip windows above eye-level, and clere-storey windows. Larger glass units are shaded under expansive slabs that correspond to the living spaces and balconies below. High contrasting colour palette highlights the horizontal lines with natural stone accents enforcing the vertical
