Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.	Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon		Ida's Valley Housing Stellenbosch, Western Cape Gabriël Theron (Gawie) FAGAN: Design Architect GABRIËL FAGAN ARCHITECTS: Architect

Date: 1975 Client: Maj. P Erskine Type: Housing scheme Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 33°55'02.63" S 18°53'07.64" E Alt: 161m

For the workers’ housing at Ida’s Valley farm near Stellenbosch, Fagan employs the stereotomic quality of the Cape vernacular in a masonry architecture that acts both as structure and enclosure, where brick walls and roofs merge to form unified entities. This type of structure achieves sufficient thermal mass in a Mediterranean climate. Here, the barrel vaulted roof structures require support at both edges. Fagan cuts limited openings in these supporting walls, leaving a substantial beam and edge to define each space. (Arthur Barker on UPSpace. Accessed 2020 10 16) Books that reference Ida's Valley Housing Fagan, G. 2005. Twenty Cape Houses. Cape Town: Breestraat Publikasies. pg 68-69 Papanicolaou, Stella, Lahabe, Valerie & Rawoot, Maashitoh . 2021. Modern Architectures : Cape Town. Cape Town: MAGS. pg 32