(Drawings by Heleen du Toit and Claire McCusker)SAN Parks architectural competition required a concept design of the new focal point for the southernmost point in Africa. A familiar, uncomplicated architectural language was employed. The local vernacular of fisherman’s cottage and Cape Dutch farmstead was used as precedent to ensure that the focus of the visitor remains on the lighthouse and landscape throughout the experience. The architecture will provide and facilitate an experience, rather than something to be seen or looked at. The architecture is of a horizontal form to emphasise the vertical line of the lighthouse. Buildings grow from the landscape as to not take attention from lighthouse.
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