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The Architecture

• The buildings are designed • Subtle use of natural

in a fine grain of smaller units materials & elements will lend
spread across the site to create • Inspired by the historic Swartland to a contemporary Cape
a farm yard and community farm styles & wheat production Vernacular barn style.
village ambiance.

• A restaurant courtyard, in the

• The building architecture would format of a mini village square,
be integrated with a network at the southern end of the retail
of continuous pedestrian links, centre will create a sence of
fragmented parking areas place to gather and be seen.

with trees for shade and the
landscape access roads for • The main parking area would be
direction & organisation. in the shape of a central court-

yard, “De Zwartland Werf”.
• This style of architrecture would

be a contemporary interpre-
tation of the scale and fabric,
fitting for this town steeped in
history, yet progressing with time.

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