项目名称：斯坦伯格住宅

地点：米德兰，南非

设计团队：TwoFiveFive Architects

建筑面积：414 m²

竣工时间：2021年

摄影：Paris Brummer

设计特色：

项目 -坐落于南非著名的滑铁卢庄园内，沿着贾克斯基河岸，斯坦伯格府邸作为当代住宅建筑的杰出典范脱颖而出。由TwoFiveFive Architects设计，这座414平方米的住宅巧妙地将极简主义美学与其自然环境的深度连接融为一体。

这座住宅以其优雅的设计解决了一个基本的建筑挑战：创造一个既能回应地形环境，又能满足客户渴望营造有意义联系的家园。设计团队精心编排了开放性与私密性之间的微妙平衡，使建筑能够与环境和谐共存。

斯坦伯格府邸的独特之处在于其经过深思熟虑的体量构成，创造了室内外空间的动态交融。建筑师采用了精致的干净线条和极简形式，选用玻璃、混凝土和钢材等材料，不仅是为了美观，更是看中它们的耐久性和低维护特性。

落地窗如同活动的画布，框住不断变化的河畔景观，同时消解了传统的内外界限。这种通透性使自然光充满室内空间，并让河流的柔和声音气氛渗透整个家园。

空间组织展现了对当代生活模式的深刻理解。开放式公共区域鼓励社交互动，而精心布置的私人区域则提供了独处和沉思的时刻。这种流畅的空间流动创造了一个能轻松适应各种居住方式的家，无论是举办聚会还是提供宁静的退隐之所。

斯坦伯格住宅展示了建筑设计如何能在场地特定响应性和当代表达之间达成和谐。这个项目成为了住宅建筑的精致典范，既尊重其环境背景，又拥抱明显的现代感——优雅简约与有目的功能性在这里达成完美平衡。

团队 - TwoFiveFive Architects TwoFiveFive Architects是由首席建筑师Theo Kruger和André Krige创立的商业建筑事务所和咨询公司，旨在创造在目的和诗意上都强大的空间和结构解决方案——挑战常规、激发好奇心并促进变革的设计，同时保持可建造性和预算控制。

该事务所在南非约翰内斯堡和开普敦设有办事处，致力于为每个项目注入本地、特定场地的相关性，无论其位于国内还是国际。他们的工作考虑客户的愿景和预算，与场地的背景和社区共鸣，并推进环保议程。他们的创意使命是设计超越形式和功能的环境，达到既创新又持久的解决方案。明白我们创造的将远远超过我们的寿命，工作室旨在将每个设计机会转化为具有固有、代际价值的标志性建筑资产。

在没有任何单一美学的情况下工作，他们的输出首先植根于独创性和经验——在那里材料和过程被审视、调整和完善，以达到一种引人注目、经过设计语言，提升每个场地及其与用户的互动方式。在这样做的过程中，他们的目标是让他们的作品不断引发思考并激励灵魂。无论应用的部门或规模如何，他们对这一理念的承诺始终如一——无论是为教育机构设计性别包容的浴室，将100平方米的市中心地块转变为混合用途的多层开发项目，还是为私人住宅定制毛巾架。

Project Name: House Steynberg

Location: Midrand, South Africa

Design Team: TwoFiveFive Architects

Total Floor Area: 414 m²

Completion: 2021

Photography: Paris Brummer

Feature:

Project - Nestled along the banks of the Jukskei River in South Africa's prestigious Waterfall Estate, House Steynberg emerges as a masterful testament to contemporary residential architecture. Designed by TwoFiveFive Architects, this 414-square-meter dwelling seamlessly merges minimalist aesthetics with a profound connection to its natural surroundings.

The residence stands as an elegant solution to a fundamental architectural challenge: creating a sanctuary that responds to both its topographical context and the client's desire for a home that fosters meaningful connections. Lead architects André Krige and Helain Foley have orchestrated a delicate balance between openness and intimacy, allowing the structure to breathe with its environment.

What distinguishes House Steynberg is its thoughtful volumetric composition, which creates a dynamic interplay between interior and exterior spaces. The architects have employed a sophisticated arrangement of clean lines and minimalist forms, using materials such as glass, concrete, and steel not merely for aesthetic appeal but for their durability and low-maintenance properties.

Floor-to-ceiling windows function as living canvases, framing the ever-changing riverside landscape while dissolving conventional boundaries between inside and outside. This permeability allows natural light to flood the interior spaces and invites the gentle sounds of the river to permeate the home.

The spatial organization reveals a nuanced understanding of contemporary living patterns. Open-plan communal areas encourage social interaction, while strategically positioned private zones offer moments of solitude and contemplation. This fluid circulation creates a home that adapts effortlessly to various modes of habitation, whether hosting gatherings or providing quiet retreat.

House Steynberg exemplifies how architectural design can achieve harmony between site-specific responsiveness and contemporary expression. The project stands as a refined example of residential architecture that honors its context while embracing a distinctly modern sensibility—where elegant simplicity meets purposeful functionality in perfect equilibrium.

Design Team - TwoFiveFive Architects is a commercial architectural practice and consultancy founded by principal architects Theo Kruger and André Krige with the intention of creating spatial and structural solutions that are powerful in both purpose and poetry – designs that challenge convention, inspire curiosity and instigate change, while remaining buildable and within budget.

With offices spanning Johannesburg and Cape Town in South Africa, they strive towards imbuing every project with local, site-specific relevance, no matter its national or international location. They work in consideration of the client's vision and budget, in sympathy with the site's context and community, and in advancement of their environmental agenda. Their creative mandate is to design environments that extend beyond form and function, to arrive at solutions that are as innovate as they are enduring. With the understanding that what they create will far outlive them, their studio aims to translate every design opportunity into an iconic architectural asset with inherent, inter-generational value.

Working in absence of any singular aesthetic, their output is first and foremost grounded in ingenuity and experience – where materials and processes are interrogated, adapted and refined to arrive at a compelling, considered design language that elevates each site and the way in which it engages its users. In doing so, they aim for their work to continually intrigue the mind and inspire the soul. Irrespective of the sector or scale of application, their commitment to this philosophy remains consistent – whether designing gender inclusive bathrooms for an educational institution, transforming a 100 m² inner city stand into a mixed-use multi-storey development, or custom-engineering towel rails for a private residence.