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Steyn City’s golf clubhouse shines at 2014 Loerie awards
The innovative ‘disappearing’
design of the golf clubhouse at
the soon to be launched Steyn
City Lifestyle Resort has already
received recognition with the
announcement of its win at the
2014 Loerie Awards in the Three
Dimensional & Environmental
Design – Architecture category.
The architect responsible for the
innovative design of the building
Wessel van Dyk comments; “While
most golf clubhouses do their
best to stand out in the most
ostentatious way possible and
dominate their environment,
the Steyn City clubhouse goes
out of its way to do the opposite.
We actually adopted an almost
‘non-architectural’ approach to
the design of the building, which
allowed us to reinvent clubhouse
design in a fresh, sustainable way
which is something the judges
at the Loerie wards obviously
appreciated.”
He adds that; “The highlight of the
structure is the way that it blends in
with nature on multiple levels the
most obvious of which is its roof
garden, that allows the building to
‘melt’ into the landscape creating
an almost magical illusion of ‘now
you see it now you don’t’.”
Cleverly hidden features abound
in the design including a large 180
parking bay underground garage
which fits seamlessly beneath the
structure.
In addition, not only is the building
built on green principles to ensure
the least possible impact on the
environment but it is also built
from the environment itself. This
is thanks to the use of a rather
unconventional cladding of gabion
baskets (a metal cag Rf