House of the Big Arch

A home that disappears into the landscape; that sits amongst the rocks and trees and birds that offers animals and plants and humans equal opportunity to find shelter that treats the bushveld with its deserved respect. The underlying concept was to bridge the landscape between riverine forest and sandstone cliff whilst raising the living space into the tree canopy, amongst the abundant arboreal life the building is organised as one long thin building which slots between the forest trees the shapes of the additions to the central building are dictated by the position and size of the surrounding trees (not one tree was demolished during the construction of this home)