Architect and Builder Jul/Aug 2025 | Page 41

Park. Apartments extend down to the ground level, with private gardens forming a transitional zone between private living and the public green. A 6m buffer ensures privacy while promoting a degree of porosity, residents engage with the park through visibility, movement, and presence.
This interface fosters passive surveillance and enhances the perceived safety of the park, an important ingredient for successful public space
in an urban South African context. The relationship between residential life and the park edge ensures that the green space is more than ornamental, it becomes lived, used, and protected.
An Urban Marker for a New Precinct OnPark’ s architectural expression, bold in form yet measured in its material and massing, deliberately establishes a civic identity. It is a landmark
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