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HOUSE Freyer
LOCATION Zwavelpoort, South Africa
“it’s not supposed to look like a barn,” architect Nadine Engelbrecht says of the house she built for her parents in Zwavelpoort outside Pretoria in South Africa. “It’s just supposed to be a shell.”
The house, on a 35-hectare farm with rocky, hilly grasslands and wide-open views of the nearby Bronberg mountain range, might appear to be referencing barn-like structures or gesturing towards some sort of agricultural vernacular design, but that certainly wasn’t Nadine’s primary concern.
When she first began sketching designs for her parents, Charmaine and Andre Freyer, she had
