Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa July/August 2014 | Page 57

The design of the duplex
apartment expresses a
distinctly modern African
attitude that is current
with today’s demands
of fast paced city living

Town and, in the day, hosts cool-hunting
hipsters frequenting impossibly quaint
eateries and in the evening it becomes the
urbanites playground as fashion and art
champion the nights. The brief to the design
team was to create a sanctuary for these city
slickers and to create a space that captures
the ‘urban chic,’ combining contemporary
living with high design.
Design
The design of the duplex apartment expresses
a distinctly modern African attitude that is
current with today’s demands of fast paced
city living. The apartment is a space of calm

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and serenity for re-energising, relaxing within,
floating above the city streets of its location.
Using these criteria as the foundation of the
design direction, the interior is a stylised and
dynamic clutter-free space that is a forward
thinking, contemporary luxury urban space
that maximises spatial use, cutting edge
design and technology.
The spatial constrictions of the space
have influenced the design and careful
consideration to ergonomic planning,
have influenced the design process. The
requirements of the modern urban couple,
that desire to live a streamlined, fluid and finely
focused existence and the need to express

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