Tzaneen house:

 

Monumental and Subdued

 

The Tzaneen house sit harmoniously horizontally being an element in its natural landscape of forest fields responding strongly to the natural context, touching the earth lightly by standing on timber stilts that create vertical extrusion off the landscape allow the building to stand up but within its landscape, picking up on the large vertical tree line on the horizon. The roof plane on house Tzaneen house humanizes the building and references it triangular shape to the historical understanding of house. The use of natural soft material allows the house to sit and belong.

Open & Closed:

The simplicity of the characterise of the house as given there have a very soft and sensitive approach to the landscape ;open up to a vast scale of the landscape completely allowing uninterrupted visual and physical connectivity to the landscape and its surrounding. The spaces being able to close down at curtain intervals allow uses protection against weather.

 

Marika-alderton house: 

Monumental and Subdued

The Marika-alderton house is an object in the natural landscape context that is set apart from the landscape, the buildings threshold feathers capturing its nature.

Open & Closed:

The Marika-Alderton House is open to fresh air, yet insulated from intense heat and protected from strong cyclone winds. Along the long central hall at the Marika-Alderton House, tilting plywood panels can be raised and lowered like awnings. Slatted shutters allow users to adjust the flow of sunlight into the interior space.

Opening and closing like a plant, the house embodies Murcutt's concept of a flexible shelter that exists in harmony with nature's rhythms.