Hello, i'm new on this forum.
I'm student of the faculty of architecture to the polytechnic of Turin

I'm serching images: drawing and photos of this house in Capetown:

Treehouse
Higgovale Capetown
Vad der Merwe Miszewski Architects
year 1997/99

of it I need for a exam!!! i must make a structural :wallbash: analysis
but I have found, on the www, only some little photos, no drawings, plans or other.


Can someone help me?

Thanx

Hello, i'm new on this forum.
I'm student of the faculty of architecture to the polytechnic of Turin

I'm serching images: drawing and photos of this house in Capetown:

Treehouse
Higgovale Capetown
Vad der Merwe Miszewski Architects
year 1997/99

of it I need for a exam!!! i must make a structural :wallbash: analysis
but I have found, on the www, only some little photos, no drawings, plans or other.


Can someone help me?

Thanx

The treehouse is one of the best houses in CT .. I had loads of info but I deleted it ... unfortunately I can't help you because I am in Auckland but I am sure that one of the South Africans will gladly assist you. Good Luck !

There is a mass of info at the university of kwazulu natal architectural library here in durban...i will see if i can get some of the stuff thats on the computers there for u

There is a mass of info at the university of kwazulu natal architectural library here in durban...i will see if i can get some of the stuff thats on the computers there for u

hey, thank you very :) much

i suppose u have all this but i thought id just post it...

THE TREE HOUSE ....... AN AFRICAN HOUSE

Trees are precious in Africa. They provide shelter for the elders at meeting time, for school children in the midday heat, for all to shield against the unrelenting elements. In many ways the tree has become iconic, almost mythical.

A commission to design a house on the slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town created an opportunity to test our concerns and searches for contextual responsiveness and connectivity. The site, adjacent to a valley and stream, has a canopy of magnificent spreading umbrella Pines. These trees, majestic and sculptural, provided the primary reference and ultimately the structural concept for the house. Five tree-like structures anchor the roof to the ground and provide shelter for the functions gathered under. These trees are surrounded by an entirely separate lightweight transparent steel and glass surrounding envelope supported on a heavily rusticated stone base.

The design of the house incorporates themes of narrative, of layering and of expressed threshold. The visitor is invited to take part in a journey of discovery, requested to participate in the unlocking of experiences within the house, the unpeeling of layers. We tried to heighten the experience of unveiling and of delicate exposure, to imbue the house with sensuality and moments of intense intimacy - an African folly immersed in, and inextricably linked with, the majestic beauty of the African landscape - a simultaneous dialogue between inside and outside and outside and inside, neither taking precedent over the other.


http://www.vandermerwemiszewski.com/treehouse/treehouse4.jpg
http://www.vandermerwemiszewski.com/treehouse/treehouse1.jpg

http://www.vandermerwemiszewski.com/treehouse/treehouse2.jpg

http://www.vandermerwemiszewski.com/treehouse/treehouse3.jpg

the images unfortunately I had already, but your analysis has given to me some starting points for my structural analysis.
I'm trying to continue my search. :runaway:

thank u!!

nobody has found something?
thanx :)

pleaseeeeeeee!!!!
help me!!!

u must have this as well...but might help...

Poised among the trees, this house in Cape Town combines a rational spatial and material sensitivity with a romantic approach to nature.

Cape Town’s stage set topography forms a huge and dramatic amphitheatre. Residential districts clamber up the edges of the city bowl, grouped around the central business gridiron. Diverse communities, from the ill-fated District 6 to the Malay quarter known as Bo-Kaap (above Cape), historically occupied these sites cheek-by-jowl with upmarket neighbourhoods. Higgovale falls into the latter category. Half hidden in its steep and leafy woods is the Tree House, the newest and most ambitious project to date by South African duo Anya Van der Merwe and Macio Miszewski.
The house represents a committed architect client relationship established over several years. Newcomers to the city, the clients were responsive to Van der Merwe Miszewski’s strategy. Their design dramatizes the views, and literally heightens the sense of being ‘in nature’, while also affording a panorama of the city. Teetering on a precipitous slope, it is a delightful contrivance, matching structural playfulness with a studied approach to the ordering of thresholds and elevations.

Rising from a winding road teeming with building activity, the disengaged street facade cheekily masks the body of the house, rather like a slightly too small towel at the beach. Addressing the street at mock urban scale, a monolithic wall restates the language of the town house, establishing scale, privacy and security. And almost at once it violates all three. Scale is distorted in two grandiose openings, one to mark entry and the second to offer a glimpse into the private realm beyond. Privacy is manipulated both in the openings and in the tantalizing views of the tree columns above. Security is pitted against enclosure; the wall is just the first in a series of vertical layers, which on closer inspection, form the house’s principal ordering device.

The house envelope is rectangular in plan. A three-storey void drops behind the glass layer of the street elevation all the way from the entry level living area to the study and guest room two floors below. The living area inhabits the garden facade and overlooks the void towards the street, separated from it by a curvilinear maple ply screen. The tree columns rise against this screen, spreading their asymmetrical branches to carry the composite box-crate roof-terrace structure above, a plane oversailing the body of the house with uninterrupted views of the city bowl and bay. The design mimics the paradoxically exposed but enclosed childhood experience of a tree-house. The interior is reinterpreted as a landscape, an artificial garden in which the living room is perched between the fabricated structural trees inside and the real pines all around. It reflects the designers’ fascination with layers and the idea of a building’s hidden heart, in which the promenade architecturale is a game of discovery, the home unpeeled like an onion.

Anya and Macio, the wife and husband partnership at the core of Van der Merwe Miszewski trace the roots of their Tree House to a concern with environmental design and the particulars of a place. The design draws out the spirit of the site in a way that brings the house into dialogue with nature. Oscillating between Modernist machine and garden gazebo, the building’s nimble poise is at the heart of its charm.

in Architectural review...http://www.arplus.com/archive/Dec99/misz1/miszewski.html

This link might help too:

http://www.visi.co.za/press1.html

Hey thanks many for your aid... is beautiful to be helps from several persons in the world... good job :) and enjoy your beautiful Africa