Buffelshoek completion

So its almost the end of a new year and all we have done is work like crazy . Running up and down from Hoedspruit to Gauteng at least twice a month

We have completed our first residential units and they are awesome in Hoedspruits hot climate we have managed to build a building that controls its temperature so well, just a few minutes in these buildings and you are energized to go back into the heat.

The simple design we used to maximize space internally has left us with huge rooms and an awesome entertainment area with a very large kitchen 

This unit has six bedrooms four full bathrooms  two kitchens and two lounges

both units take up around three hundred square m

We were lucky enough on the site to get the exact line up with the setting sun in the summer to reduce heat absorption  on our north wall an important factor in such a hot climate all late morning  and early afternoon sun is kept off the walls in summer

In the bathrooms it was decided to keep things as natural and natural as possible we finished the plastered walls with Cretestone and a sealing agent.The rammed walls were just left as is to help reduce moisture content these act as a sponge and will absorb any excess moisture and this will evaporate through the outside of the structure without causing any damage all outside walls are left porous so that no moisture is trapped in the walls

Ok so the best part of these amazing buildings was the price   

350 m2  for  1.2 million  of beautiful cool when its hot and warm when its cold living space using local sand and labour enriching the community in so many ways...

Our next Project is also on the orpen road in Hoedspruit this will be a gallery/curio shop