Home Tour: Inside Kloof House at the foot of Table Mountain

This short film explores the idea of the indoors and outdoors coexisting. Located below Lion’s Head, with views of Table Mountain, Signal Hill and the city, the home’s striking inverted pyramid roof creates clerestory windows that draw in views of the mountains and the sky that otherwise would have been lost. The house is designed to engage with the surrounding landscape, conceived as a sheltering “hat” over a formalized landscape rather than an enclosed architectural object. A heightened awareness of the movements of the sun and the moon emphasizes a sense of connection to nature and its cycles. Architecture: SAOTA; Interior Designers: ARRCC; Interior Décor: OKHA; Director and producer: Tatjana Meirelles Penfold; Soundtrack: Gary Thomas; Landscape Designer: Franchesca Watson; Structural Engineers: Moroff & Kühne Consulting Engineers; Quantity Surveyor: SBDS Quantity Surveyors; Main Contractor: Gossow & Harding Construction Pty (Ltd).