ALTERATION TO EXISTING DWELLING
Sunbird Cottage
A formally dark and dingy three bedroom suburban house across the vlei from Muizenberg Mountain was completely transformed into a cozy cottage that takes full advantage of its ideal orientation and position on site.
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INTERIOR FITOUT
Putter Kitchen
A formally dark and dingy three bedroom suburban house across the vlei from Muizenberg Mountain was completely transformed into a cozy cottage that takes full advantage of its ideal orientation and position on site.
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ALTERATION TO EXISTING DWELLING
House Jewinson
A split level home with unchallenged views over False Bay above Froggy Pond had been enlarged and expanded over the years resulting in a big house with no space. Some considered reconfiguration, addition of extensive deck and new interior fit out turned, Michele Berger and Richard Jewison’s brief on its head, addressing their needs in unexpected ways.
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creating beautiful, resilient and environmentally
sensitive spaces for people across scales and contexts.
About us
Principal, Donné Putter is a professional architect, environmentalist, permaculturist and self taught landscape designer with a passion for regenerative design and creating better habitats for all life within spaces occupied by people. She believes that biodiversity should be woven into our urban landscapes, integrating beauty and wonder of the natural world into our daily lives through the good design of spaces that we inhabit. She spent almost 10 years in the field of training other built environment professionals in green building and sustainable built environments honing her understanding of how the built environment impacts on the natural one and exploring ways of not only mitigating negative impact but seeking to regenerate ecosystems through built environment projects. 2019 saw a return to practice and the formation of SPACE + FIELD.
SPACE + FIELD is a small and agile design practice and consultancy that specialises in creating beautiful, resilient and environmentally sensitive spaces for people across scales and contexts. We are especially interested in intervening in areas where radical improvement is possible through good design and implementation, transforming underutilised spaces of potential into highly valued ones.
Collaboration with other professionals, including engineers, green building consultants, permaculture designers, landscape architects and interiors designers amongst others, enable us to take on a broad range of projects from renovations, alterations and additions for residential properties, new building design, resilient ecologically rich landscape designs for gardens and parklands or development of strategies for urban regeneration at a neighbourhood scale.
Services
From interior fit outs, renovations, alterations and additions to new building design to gardens and resilient urban neighbourhoods, we apply our broad design and systems thinking skill sets to brick and mortar architectural design, landscape design and soil improvement strategies, plant layouts and detailed plant palettes to sustainable strategy development for larger projects.
Architecture
We design buildings and interiors fit outs. Registered professional architects offering partial services in the form of design advice, visioning and concept development through to full service offering as principal agent responsible for design and delivery of project from inception and concept design through to contract and construction of new buildings, alteration and addition or renovations. Highly practical, simpleand functional designs that add beauty, joy and richness
to the lives of its occupants.
Landscape Design
We design landscapes and gardens. Self taught, deeply passionate design of living landscapes with a basis in sound ecological design and permaculture.Architectural training enables a view of design that integrates buildings to landscape, inside to out, seamlessly, where building and landscape are designed as two parts of the whole habitat. The focus of the practice is in producing low maintenance, low input, biodiverse landscapes that both bring joy to human occupants and rich, thriving ecologies to urban and suburban environments.
Sustainability
We advise on energy efficiency strategies, water saving strategies, creating comfortable human environments, improving ecological design, food sovereignty and responsible material use with inputs from broad range of specialists for both buildings and landscapes.
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Services
Architecture
Landscape Design
Sustainability
What we do:
From interior fit outs, renovations, alterations and additions to new building design to gardens and resilient urban neighbourhoods, we apply our broad design and systems thinking skill sets to brick and mortar architectural design, landscape design and soil improvement strategies, plant layouts and detailed plant palettes to sustainable strategy development for larger projects.
Architecture
We design buildings and interiors fit outs. Registered professional architects offering partial services in the form of design advice, visioning and concept development through to full service offering as principal agent responsible for design and delivery of project from inception and concept design through to contract and construction of new buildings, alteration and addition or renovations. Highly practical, simple and functional designs that add beauty, joy and richness to the lives of its occupants.
Landscape Design
We design landscapes and gardens. Self taught, deeply passionate design of living landscapes with a basis
in sound ecological design and permaculture. Architectural training enables a view of design that integrates buildings to landscape, inside to out, seamlessly, where building and landscape are designed as two parts
of the whole habitat. The focus of the practice is in producing low maintenance, low input, biodiverse landscapes that both bring joy to human occupants and rich, thriving ecologies to urban and suburban environments.
Sustainability
We advise on energy efficiency strategies, water saving strategies, creating comfortable human environments, improving ecological design, food sovereignty and responsible material use with inputs from broad range of specialists for both buildings and landscapes.