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House Allen Johannesburg, Gauteng Michael Kenneth SCHOLES: Design Architect MICHAEL SCHOLES and ASSOCIATE ARCHITECTS : Architect

Date: 1982 Type: Homestead Status: Extant

House Allen is a building designed in response to its site. The panhandle site was dominated by two large trees, which occupied key positions. Ome was an evergreen with an eighteen diameter spread, the other deciduous. The house became two buildings - the living units which responded to the evergreen tree and the bedroom unit anchored by the second tree. The one skeletal and transparent, the other private and introverted. The geometry and form of the one is in response to the tree, the other is determiined more by the dictstes of sleep and study. One is painted. One is face-brick, the other flat.