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Darnaway Long House Forest Town, Johannesburg, Gauteng studioMAS: Architect

Date: 2007 Type: Homestead Status: Extant Street: Darnaway Street

Our aim was to design a spacious, lock-up-and-go house that uses the stand and space efficiently - a secure house, with open indoor and outdoor living spaces and a private bedroom area. Expanding on the idea of “frontality”, this house too becomes the secure boundary wall, as it rises three floors from the street boundary and so also ensures that no space is wasted on the available land. Its striking façade belies the conventions of traditional residential architectural typologies. [studioMAS, March 2010] All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.