COCOON LIVING
THE “PURE GEOMETRY OF THE SQUARE” PROMPTED BY THE PONDS BECAME A “SUBLIMINAL LINK,” AS JAN-HEYN PUTS IT
The starting point for Graham Paarman’s cabin-like tree house in the famously beautiful wine region of Constantia in Cape Town was a particular spot he’d chosen on his family estate—a clearing among the trees overlooking four square reflection ponds. The estate has extensive landscaped gardens, a manor house and a number of dwellings and buildings arranged along the lines of a modern interpretation of a “Cape Dutch Werf ” or traditional Cape farmyard.
The architects Pieter Malan, Jan-Heyn Vorster and Peter Urry of Cape Town-based firm Malan Vorster Architecture Interior Design had worked on various buildings
