South African Garden and Home – September 2019

12 SEPTEMBER 2019 | gardenandhome.co.za

ARCHITECT’S PLAN

TEXT

DIANA WEMYSS

PHOTOGRAPHS

CORNELIUS MULLER

W

hen Cor and Adriette Booysen asked Frederik

Lötter and his team at S-Design Architects to

design a modern family home in Stellenbosch,

they already had a strong idea of what they

wanted: contemporary barn style with eco-technological

features such as solar energy, alternative heating and

rainwater catchment.

There was an existing 1930’s house on the site where the

family lived for a couple of years after relocating from Pretoria.

The brief was to demolish the old house and build a new one

that would provide the family with generous accommodation as

well as energy- and water-saving systems.

“Our clients initially consulted with Pretoria architect

Friedrich W Strey who drew up a concept design,” explains

Best of

AT A GLANCE

THE ARCHITECTS: Frederik Lötter

(centre), Alma Mentz and Neill

Mathews of S-Design Architects

(formerly Skep Design).

THE CLIENTS: Cor Booysen, his wife

Adriette and their four children.

THE BRIEF: To design a traditional farmhouse-style family

home in a leafy cul-de-sac.

THE HOUSE: A double storey consisting of four barn-like

structures. Two form the double garages (one with a loft

playroom above), the third features the living areas – kitchen,

dining and two living rooms below, and four en suite

bedrooms upstairs. The fourth houses the main en-suite

bedroom above and a guest suite below.

BOTH WORLDS

This extraordinary Stellenbosch house

marries traditional family living with modern

environmental features