This image and below Bosjes Estate shop and deli in Western Cape, South Africa, is largely underground and surrounded by a trellis with echoes of traditional enclosures in the region


Size: 750 sq m Architect: Steyn Studios


Project architect: Meyer & Associates Landscape: Square One


Structural engineer: Grobler & Associates Consulting Engineers


Main Contractor: GVK-Siya Zama Construction


Façade and Gridshell Consultants: Arup (SA)


Gridshell Structural Engineer: Henry Fagan & Partners


Steyn worked with Square One Landscape Architects to create 750 sq m of space across two buildings in sunken, amphitheatre-like spaces within a lush garden, linking the original manor house and the chapel into a coherent whole. Each of the buildings is partially underground, encircled by decorative oak or metal trellises that have echoes of traditional enclosures once used by the San indigenous people in the region, as well as the thatched truss homes of early Dutch settlers. As the gardens mature, the trellises will be overgrown with climbing plants, creating a constantly changing biophilic landscape. Small but perfectly formed, the Desert X Al Ula Visitor Centre, Saudi Arabia, is just 250 sq m,


containing a café, WC, information centre and a shady place to rest a while from the desert sun. Created by Portugal-based KWY.studio to provide facilities for visitors to an outdoor art exhibition, just like Steyn’s visitor centre, it needed to be a modest presence. ‘We were mindful that, while visible in the landscape, the structure should be introverted, not challenge the art, the main focus of the exhibition,’ explained Luise Marter from the studio. ‘As we were asked to design, develop and build a structure within a short period of time, we immediately started our design process in what became an intense two-week period of testing various typologies, scales and functional


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