Sketch of the week: Swartberg House

This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Jennifer Beningfield from Openstudio Architects, and shows Swartberg House in Prince Albert, South Africa. She says: “The roof terraces of this passive solar house in the Karoo desert enable far views of the mountains to the south. The curved wind screen wall and fire circle allow the raised space to be inhabited as an outdoor room on warm evenings, and offer the inhabitants an elevated view of the clear, starry skies. A shocking pink bougainvillea vine grows over the adjacent timber pergola.”

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