Andrew Burges Architects

House Morkel

House Morkel
© Eddy Fournier

HOUSE MORKEL

Neo Architects

ARCHITECTS
Neo Architects

PHOTOGRAPHS
Eddy Fournier

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Dries Verbeek

CLIENTS
International Cricket Star, Albie Morkel

LOCATION
Silver Lakes Golf Estate, South Africa

MANUFACTURERS
Autodesk, Corobrik, Lafarge Holcim, Plascon, Aluglass, Kliplok, Re-used Stone From Site

ENGINEERING
Dippenaar & Lapage

CATEGORY
Houses, Houses Interiors

AREA
552 M²

YEAR
2015

LANDSCAPE
OWNER

Text description provided by the architects.

House Morkel is a contemporary farm style house designed, according to the clients brief, to be true to its use of different raw materials and provides different open spaces for entertainment and comfortable living.

House Morkel
© Eddy Fournier
House Morkel
© Eddy Fournier

Set in between dated Tuscan “styled” houses this house speaks the language of the vernacular climate with a central roof garden over a covered patio, protected from the weather yet opening up towards the garden and swimming pool.

The roof garden provides a well-insulated entertainment area and softens the structure with landscaping elevated from ground level to the floor above.

House Morkel
© Eddy Fournier
House Morkel
© Eddy Fournier

The bedrooms overlook this roof garden for a tranquil bushveld effect. Throughout the design, internal vistas were created to experience the landscaping and external areas to give the house an airy and light feel.

The front door is on an axis defined by a wooden deck that extends from the front door straight through the house to a green wall outside.

House Morkel
© Eddy Fournier
House Morkel
© Eddy Fournier

The open plan kitchen and dining room have views to both the entertainment patio with swimming pool and the boma, a client request for socializing around a campfire.

The high rock cladded wall at the boma is a reoccurring detail on the street elevation. In this case the rock wall provides privacy to the main entertainment area from the street as privacy was also an important factor in the design.

House Morkel
© Eddy Fournier
House Morkel
© Eddy Fournier

The entrance courtyard, privately tucked away from the street view, is a play area for the kids and creates a covered approach, by means of the extended roof garden, to the foyer.

This design proofs that contextual and vernacular architecture is achievable and greater success for comfortable living even in estates where the norm is to conform to inappropriate adapted foreign styles of architecture.

House Morkel
© Eddy Fournier


House Morkel
© Eddy Fournier
House Morkel
© Eddy Fournier
House Morkel
© Eddy Fournier
House Morkel
© Eddy Fournier
House Morkel
© Eddy Fournier


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Ground Floor Plan
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First Floor Plan
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Site Plan
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Axonometric View


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Elevations
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Sections

Andrew Burges Architects
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Andrew Burges Architects
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