the hidden homestead
‘The light that we have in Africa is very different from the light in Europe, for example,’ says Johannesburg-based architect, Kate Otten.
‘There’s an intensity about it that also brings out the intensity of the colours.’
These kinds of observations about the quality of light and colour inform her idea of home – or in architectural parlance, ‘context’ – and what it means for a home to belong in its particular setting.
It’s something that governed every aspect of the design of her family home in Joburg’s Parktown North – which she shares with her partner, Paris Pitsillides,
