Lighting in Design Q3 2020

and talk, laugh and love, then that is a great am- bition for lighting – delivered in cold, technical thought! SAOTA has collaborated with Lux Populi on over 25 projects, some complete, many in-flight. Learning to collaborate as a team takes time and attention, but the result is that we were able to deliver this project with SAOTA taking the lead and doing all the legwork, and a little bit of advice and support from Lux Populi. That is a very conscious working relationship.We’d always encourage archi- tects to seek specialist help, but also to have the confidence to learn and deliver – after all, lighting is about expressing architecture and supporting the way people will live in a home – exactly the things we consider as architects. Collaboration isn’t about having a second layer wrapped over our work, but about making all design thinking a fundamental part of our work. Looking back at the completed project, what are your thoughts? This project was great fun – a chance to collaborate and imagine, and I look forward to sharing a drink with our client there someday soon. The design of the home While the aesthetic approach that CapeTown-based architecture firm SAOTA took might seem like a radical departure from traditional regional architec- ture, the architects have taken great care to keep the design unobtrusive and sensitive to its setting, while still making an architectural statement. The site is a bluff occupying the transitional space

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