When you walk along Kloof Road in Clifton along Cape Town’s Atlantic Seaboard, there’s one house where the joggers, dog walkers, strollers and others slow, stop and gather for a chat, or pause to look more than the others. “Clifton doesn’t have the typical suburban setup where people just drive. There’s a lot of foot traffic and people use the sidewalks,” says architect Jan-Heyn Vorster of his neighbourhood.
Jan-Heyn and his partner Pieter Bruwer built the house specifically with the hope that it would be friendlier to the street than the blank, overpowering mansions typical of the Atlantic Seaboard. These houses tend to follow a fairly predictable formula: get up as high as you can and face the sea
