Clifton Terraces, Clifton

This top end luxury residential development sits along the Atlantic Seaboard with spectacular sunset views of the Atlantic Ocean. A strip of public land borders this erf on the South side with stately old Pinus sp., Podocarpus sp and other indigenous trees and vegetation which provide a soft edge to the development and a buffer between the neighbours. This buffer was intended to be retained along the South boundary and the North boundary vegetation would be reinforced with indigenous vegetation differentiating private space with the public staircase.

The images below depict how this multi-storey building would be inserted into an extensively excavated pit, with structural gunited boundaries, which were closed up and dressed to appear as though the built form “floats” within a natural landscape.

A linear spine of trees, planted in constructed planters mitigates the visual building mass and sandstone rock was sensitively retained along the road frontage and planting introduced where possible.