House F is a stunning single-family residence located in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, designed in 2020 by Elphick Proome Architecture.

Description
Set in the pristine bush landscape of the Karkloof, this private residence exudes the spirit of the place. A collection of generously spread pavilions and courtyards translates into an architecture which connects isotropically with the landscape and displays a simple, honest resourcefulness and humility. With a fine crafted quality, its raw materiality creates an architectonic of serenity and purposeful understatedness.
Widely traveled and discerning world citizens clients with business interests in many countries globally and homes in China and Europe, chose to spend six months of the year in South Africa and immerse themselves in an isolated bush environment to counterpoint their other urban residences. Two informative features of the selected building area within the twenty hectare curtilegde, were an existing bush track, offering an area of flat ?disturbed’ land in a uniformly steep slope and the low density dispersion of ingenious trees including a century old Cabbage tree, which is the landmark used to concretise the position of this home. The client’s required a five bedroom home, open plan living space, special wine cellar, workspace, staff rooms, garaging and service facilities resulting in an arrangement of three simple rectangular pavilions set over two levels. The lower two pav...