growing increments over the servitude , forming one of the dominant features of the architecture .
Design Language The architectural language of the buildings is to externally engage the surroundings and landmark corner of Oxford and Glenhove roads and the visibility of the site , reacting to site limitations such as the Gautrain servitude in a beneficial way . This provided the opportunity for the weaving of the language of a multi-faceted gem like drama . Countering this was the intent to draw the human scale through transitional interior spaces into courtyard inward engaging serene spaces .
Unlike a single tenanted commercial building with a single identity for the user , here the buildings themselves act as the front door or threshold to multiple owned spaces ; all of which needed to benefit from the architectural language as an identifying factor .
Perched on an apex in the topography , this provided the opportunity for the users ’ internal environments to engage visually with the vast and expansive panoramic views reaching to the edges of the Johannesburg landscape .
There was a cognitive decision to engage with the public / pedestrian and an unfenced , generously wide landscaped area belonging to the site is made available to the public . the building peels away to create a reinforced perspective view . The ground rises toward the entrance and the façade angles down towards the same place , seemingly creating a vanishing point which acts as a transition into the interior space . The same transition is experienced from the interior spaces looking out . The cranked northern façade , featuring contrasting natural stone and glazed boxes , adds dynamism to this edge .
The geometry of both buildings differs but is unified as a compound through the utilisation of similar materials and design language . The sum of the parts of this development act as a composition in the landscape , unifying both inward looking and outward looking environments .
Design Features The Western glazed façade of the building is inclined and encroaches over the servitude . The building seems to loom over one , creating a composition unique to this site . The corner of
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