A collision of geometric types in contrasting brick and concrete defines Nice Main Shapes Home, a dwelling in South Africa designed by native architect Gregory Katz.
Commissioned by a pair with a “distaste for the abnormal”, the four-bedroom dwelling in a suburb of Johannesburg is made up of squares, circles, triangles and an octagon.
The idea for the 275-square-metre dwelling got here from Euclid’s Components, a e book by the traditional Greek mathematician Euclid that Katz was studying whereas engaged on the design.
“As I delved into the e book, I turned captivated by the concept of making a construction the place the outside of every form consists of various supplies, whereas the inside supplies remained constant, thereby unifying the areas,” defined Katz.
The doorway to Nice Main Shapes Home is a triangular kind with uncovered concrete partitions, round facet home windows and a fully-glazed frontage.
It’s linked to at least one facet of a two-storey octagonal brick kind, which is punctured by trapezoidal home windows and comprises a big eating and kitchen space.
The doorway results in a brief hall the place sliding glass doorways open onto the backyard.
It additionally leads by way of to a cylindrical concrete quantity, the place a dwelling house is illuminated by a high-level, semicircular window.
On the west facet of the house is a cuboid kind constructed from perforated blockwork. Topped with photo voltaic panels, it comprises a storage, fitness center and visitor condo and adjoins a small round house containing utility areas.
To the east, an oval-shaped swimming pool is wrapped by a backyard terrace connecting to paved paths that lead across the sides of the house and hyperlink its varied types.
The interiors of Nice Main Shapes Home have been created in collaboration with inside designer Cecil Cameron, who wished to convey a way of “heat and luxury” to distinction the uncovered brick and concrete exterior, Katz mentioned.
Within the dwelling space, full-height sliding picket doorways double as wall coverings, whereas embedded lighting across the fringe of the ceiling emphasises the room’s round kind.
Upstairs, a lining of gray curtains brings a sense of intimacy to the principle bed room, with customized furnishings to swimsuit the weird shapes of the inside.
Different houses in South Africa featured on Dezeen embody Mountain Home by Chris van Niekerk, a minimalist retreat within the foothills of Steenberg Ridge close to Cape City. Within the seaside city of Mossel Bay, Yvette van Zyl created a house with a modernist-informed inside for herself and her husband.
The pictures is by Elsa Younger/Frank Options.
