Twenty years of houses, philosophy second
A Johannesburg practice twenty years deep in sustainable residential work, and a website built to show twelve of the houses.
- Client
- Veld Architects
- Year
- 2020
- Scope
- Web design, Build
(Overview)Built in 2020. Judged the best architecture website in South Africa four years later.
(The brief)Their old site opened with the practice philosophy, so a visitor had to read their way to the work. Sustainable design is easy to write about and hard to photograph, and twenty years of finished houses were sitting behind all that writing.
Colour
- Primary Slate #54595F
- Secondary Veld Green #4A5332
- Accent Bushveld #858261
- Ground Warm White #F5F2EC
Type
One family, two widths, and no third thing competing.
Website
(The order)The buildings lead. The reasoning follows them, further down the same page, where anyone who wants it can find it.
(What shipped)The site opens on aerial photography of a finished house, with a grid of twelve projects underneath. Every home has its own page, its own photography and its own set of drawings. Even the About page names the founder before it names the practice.
The first thing on the homepage is a building, not a paragraph.
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