The Forest House, Durban Residence, KwaZulu-Natal Home, South African Residential Development, Architecture Photos
The Forest House in Durban
Modern Luxury Real Estate in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa – design by Bloc Architects
9 Jan 2019
The Forest House, Durban
Design: Bloc Architects
Location: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
The Forest House in Durban
The Forest House is an exploration into materiality, light and the integration of architecture into the landscape. Situated in an exclusive forest estate in Durban, South Africa, the forest house strives to frame the landscape with clean horizontal lines.

The home celebrates raw materials, which helps soften the transition between built form and the precious landscape that surrounds it. This raw materiality reinforces the honesty behind the architectural tectonics of its construction.
Through subtle manipulations of materials and forms we sought to alter perceptions. By chamfering brutal edges, we revealed concretes cool elegance. Concrete Frames are propped off steel columns converting heavy and cumbersome to light and agile.

The pool straddles inside and out, pulling ephemeral reflections of sky and clouds deep into the house. The indigenous wild grasses on the roofs blur boundaries between the landscape and architecture. Besides adding an animated aural experience, the planting offers a more pragmatic insulating layer from the outside.

Conceptually, the house consists of two rectangular boxes on ground ...