House in Westdene: Main Event: Architecture: Designer’s Explanation

House in Westdene: Main Event: Architecture
Purse: ZAR4,680.00
Deadline: 31 August 2020 at 13h CAT
Budget: ZAR150,000.00
Site: Second Avenue, Westdene. (ERF1/122)

Replaced the lean-to roof that covers the kitchen and second lounge with an exposed truss new gable roof. It is an extruded copy of the one that roofs the west wing of the house. Proposed new workshops (that can be repurposed into rentable rooms) to enclose the entertainment space and remodelled the existing interior. Front garden is designed to allow additional cars to alley dock in tandem on it.

The new gable roof is intended to provide some volume and scale to the (entertainment) east wing. It also reduces the overall length and run-on feeling of the unplanned additions on this space. Two hearths (fire-places) become the focal point on each end of the roof: one in the kitchen is the wood burning stove and the one in the loggia becomes the braai. This bold structure allows for restraint in other parts of the interior which are intended to optimise it.

The kitchen
A new exit door is placed to allow easy access to a kitchen yard. The awkward island is demolished and new simple counter tops installed on each perimeter wall. Provision for an undercounter washing machine means that the laundry structure can be demolished. The pressed ceiling in the kitchen is removed and reinstalled in the main bedroom.

The main bedroom
This window is replaced by a French door to the courtyard (the door taken out of the study come guest bedroom).

The study come guest bedroom
The door that faces the kitchen is built shut. A new entrance is opened off the entrance hall opposite the first bedroom’s door.  

The bathroom
The bathroom is simplified. The over-sized shower is removed and replaced with a standard wash hand basin. A new standard, full size bath that accommodates showering is installed.
 
Parking, landscaping and out buildings
The front garden is landscaped to accommodate cars parking on it.

The entertainment space is centred around the peperboom tree.  

It is contained by the addition of the workshop spaces.

The workshops create a new narrow ‘overflow’ courtyard to the north west. This space can double as a garden space when the spaces are converted into rentable rooms (which they are designed to be easily converted into).