CASTLE STREET
STRAND STREET
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The building has been divided into the elements
of urban edge, base building and tower to create
a progression of scale starting with the two
storey retail element which creates a visually
permeable zone with a legible city street scale
and is delineated by a sheltering canopy element
which runs from Rose Street up Castle Street
around Chiappini street and ends on the Strand
Street façade. A concerted design effort has been
made to modulate the plinth (housing a residential
component) and break it up into a more domestic
scale by using vertical and horizontal elements to
create smaller, varied and less imposing elements,
which relate directly to the scale and form of the
existing houses of the adjacent Bo-Kaap. Lastly
the tower element itself has been shaped so as to
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specifically lessen the impact on the sensitive Bo-
Kaap area behind by stepping the façade away from
the Chiappini / Castle Street corner. This stepped
façade has incorporated the use of colour on the
verticals facing towards the Bo-Kaap to further
reflect the vibrancy of the historic area. A further
design element that assists with the relative scale
of the building is the setback above the plinth level
which creates a roof garden area and allows for a
visual disconnect between the slim tower element
and the heavier and more grounded base building,
with its more solid construction.
Building Use
The development was planned as a 16,600m 2
mixed-use building comprising residential (43%),
117 on Strand