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VANISHING ACT

Turning off the Hemel-en-Aarde Road, it’s a bumpy, winding assent to this unconventional house overlooking the valley and Fernkloof Nature Reserve. It appears all of a sudden on the rise above you. Well, its narrowest side does. Around another bend and you approach it from its side elevation and glimpse its low horizontal footprint. Then you’re right up against the monolithic facade as you make the

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