House Gabriel Fagan, Camps Bay
Perched on the Atlantic face of the Cape Peninsula, this house is in an area which was practically uninhabited until the 20th century. Its savage climate, with wind and rain coming in off the southern ocean, discouraged development, even though the district is only two miles from the centre of Cape...
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ftunivpretoria:oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/31897 2023-05-15T18:25:46+02:00 House Gabriel Fagan, Camps Bay Die Es, Camps Bay Fagan, Gabriel Theron (Gawie) Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson 2008-04 Fagan Archive Drawing No. 656/2 10 Colour digital photo's, 300dpi, presented in PDF format PDF http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31897 en eng http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31897 University of Pretoria http://hdl.handle.net/2263/18601 Architects' own houses Influence of vernacular architecture Fagan Gabriel Theron (Gawie) Architecture Domestic -- South Africa Architects -- South Africa Seaside architecture -- South Africa -- Western Cape Roofs -- South Africa -- Design and construction Chimneys -- South Africa -- Design and construction Vernacular architecture -- South Africa -- Western Cape Image Plan or blueprint 2008 ftunivpretoria 2022-05-31T13:33:46Z Perched on the Atlantic face of the Cape Peninsula, this house is in an area which was practically uninhabited until the 20th century. Its savage climate, with wind and rain coming in off the southern ocean, discouraged development, even though the district is only two miles from the centre of Cape Town. But changing sensibilities about the picturesque, and modern building materials which can withstand the climate, have enabled the area to become popular. The house is a personal statement. It is hand-built (craftsmanship is very expensive). It relies on a poetic reading of the site and a feeling for the vernacular, which is abstracted in a sensitive modern manner without any hint of kitsch or pastiche in the white stuccoed walls and Cape Dutch chimney. The plan is rich in delightful changes in level and minute deflections in the angles of wall planes, particularly around the processional entrance. Here the materials are selected for their visual and tactile and also their audible qualities. The lower level of the house has a concrete slab roof, forming the floor to the bedroom wing above. This concrete plane is played off against the similarly monolithic structural concept of the laminated timber plate roof, distorted into waves to span the distances. [SA Artefacts: http://www.artefacts.co.za./main/Buildings/bldgframes.php?bldgid=7639&archid=2121] Sketch plan, sections and elevations on film – Fagan Archive Drawing No. 656/2. 10 Colour digital photo's of Die Es, created by Arthur Barker in April 2008, using a Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL camera. ai2013 Still Image Southern Ocean University of Pretoria: UPSpace Southern Ocean |
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Architects' own houses Influence of vernacular architecture Fagan Gabriel Theron (Gawie) Architecture Domestic -- South Africa Architects -- South Africa Seaside architecture -- South Africa -- Western Cape Roofs -- South Africa -- Design and construction Chimneys -- South Africa -- Design and construction Vernacular architecture -- South Africa -- Western Cape Fagan, Gabriel Theron (Gawie) House Gabriel Fagan, Camps Bay |
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Perched on the Atlantic face of the Cape Peninsula, this house is in an area which was practically uninhabited until the 20th century. Its savage climate, with wind and rain coming in off the southern ocean, discouraged development, even though the district is only two miles from the centre of Cape Town. But changing sensibilities about the picturesque, and modern building materials which can withstand the climate, have enabled the area to become popular. The house is a personal statement. It is hand-built (craftsmanship is very expensive). It relies on a poetic reading of the site and a feeling for the vernacular, which is abstracted in a sensitive modern manner without any hint of kitsch or pastiche in the white stuccoed walls and Cape Dutch chimney. The plan is rich in delightful changes in level and minute deflections in the angles of wall planes, particularly around the processional entrance. Here the materials are selected for their visual and tactile and also their audible qualities. The lower level of the house has a concrete slab roof, forming the floor to the bedroom wing above. This concrete plane is played off against the similarly monolithic structural concept of the laminated timber plate roof, distorted into waves to span the distances. [SA Artefacts: http://www.artefacts.co.za./main/Buildings/bldgframes.php?bldgid=7639&archid=2121] Sketch plan, sections and elevations on film – Fagan Archive Drawing No. 656/2. 10 Colour digital photo's of Die Es, created by Arthur Barker in April 2008, using a Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL camera. ai2013 |
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