Overcoming OBSTACLES
South African Garden and Home|April 2020
When designing this coastal house, the challenge was to find a balance between providing privacy and bringing in natural light on the narrow site
CANDICE BOTHA
Overcoming OBSTACLES

The extremely narrow, sloping site posed a challenge for architect Julia Rutherfoord when designing this house in Salt Rock on the KZN North Coast. “The owner wanted a light-filled house that would feel private, while embracing the sea views and open vegetation to the east of the property,” she says. “The architectural code in this estate is a contemporary vernacular response to site and context, which is quite an open design code and stimulates good architecture.”

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