Symbiosis of the landscape with the building takes a number of different avenues:
- Landscape supports passive climatic principles of the building -
- House Felix Ferreira - Design is based on the dichotomy between private areas (built & enclosed) and public areas ( open) connected to the garden.
- The lounge area opens up completely to the garden and views - where doors slide away into walls and the north facing glazed wall slides into the garden itself. The space is both inside and outside and has multiple readings. This north/ west facing glass box is shaded and cooled by the Acacia forest planted on the west boudary.
- The eastern side of the house is designed to enclose and offers private spaces to retreat
- Landscaped designed into rooms as an extension of the building -
- House Strydom Krause - the garden is an extension of the house divided into children's play area extending from the kitchen and play room and more formal garden entertaining area - adjacent to the formal lounge and dining
- Garden Hill - the garden is in effect an open air house - with spaces/rooms for dining, cooking, ablutions, bathing, entertaining and relaxing
- jacuzzi section to the rim flow pool
- a covered terrace with both wood and gas braai and a kitchenette
- viewing deck with bar rail for sundowner drinks
- bathroom , steam shower and open air shower and urinal
- Landscape used productively in materiality of building -
- House Mokoena - the building was designed to use the large amounts of soil on site in it's construction as rammed earth walls. The landscape literally builds the house.
- Landscape mapping extended into a building form -
- WITS SCEM competition entry - arose from a reading/ mapping of the green landscape armature of campus and extending this and folding it into a building
- WITS RESEARCH INSTITUTES- landscape mapped in terms of exotic/ indigenous planting and heritage and on a city scale. The landscape became a matrix of connection that connected disparate buildings and changed their relations in terms of the heritage context - social/ economic/ urban. This landscape became built form in places to define edges and add programmes.
