Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa November/December 2013 | Page 14

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proposed, current and future projects from Southern Africa and abroad

PROJECTVIEW
NEW PAARDEVLEI
MEDICAL CENTRE,
SOMERSET WEST

The construction of a specialist
eye medical centre, consisting
of consulting rooms, theatres,
an eye clinic, ablutions and an
open paved parking area, is to
commence shortly. The project is
3,400m2 in size.
Client:
Lazercor
Architects:
M & B Architects
Quantity Surveyors:
Metric Quantity Surveyors
Consulting Structural Engineers:
S and Z Consulting
Electrical & Mechanical:
BWK Engineering Services
Main Contractor:
Stabilid Cape Construction
Completion: ±October 2014
Value: R35 million
(Databuild)

DAYIZENZA PLAZA,
NUMBI, MPUMALANGA

The shopping centre, the only one
in an area with a high density of
households, is to be situated near
a residential golf estate. Several
of the large national companies
are to be tenants. It offers a GLA
of 17,365m2.
Architects:
Equilibrium Studio
Quantity Surveyors:
Van Vuuren & Partners
Consulting Engineers:
Civil: WSP Africa
Structural: Bigen Africa
Electrical: KKA Consulting
Electrical Engineers
Mechanical:
VMG Consultants
Main Contractor: HL Kroon
Completion: ± July 2014
Value: R130 million
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HOUSE BINDER, BRETTENWOOD ESTATE, SALT ROCK, KZN
The project was/is planned to set the
trend for an appropriate architectural
shift in an estate whose design guidelines
were drawn from Frank Lloyd Wright’s
architectural philosophies. Economics
and tradition had partially anchored the
estate in an architecture generally lacking
in cutting edge residential design which
could  exploit the opportunities of sea
facing sloping sites with linear strips of
indigenous vegetation.
Site
The client, a successful residential
contractor, had found a very special site
to build a house for himself. Ironically, the
client had found an article on prototype
houses designed by Richard Neutra
and built for returning American WW2 
servicemen in California. The architects
had, at the same time, totally in isolation
of this incident, decided to pursue a similar
design style.
The site is bounded in the rear by a long
sweep of a steep bank with  indigenous
trees and thick  shrubs. This forms part
of the linear green space system, linking
many of the dams and environmentally

sensitive areas in the estate. A pedestrian/
cycle path has been built in amongst this
strip, recalling the sugar tram that used
to run along the same slopes on the old
sugar farm.
The planting screens the house from
the public pathway and provides a backing
to the private sheltered rear garden.
In front of the site is one of the many
man-made dams working as pa