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has undergone a process of gentr i f icat ion,with many of the houses on the 4th Avenuehigh street being converted to shops housingantique stores, cafes, boutiques, etc.

Many of the converted houses havemaintained their residential relat ionship with thehigh street, with boundary walls and a set-backfrom the street edge. Our project addresses theurban nature of a high street while maintainingthe residential scale of the neighbourhood.The faces of the exist ing houses are maintarned.The boundary wall is removed. The spacebetween the existing boundary and the existinghouse is incorporated into the pavement, thuscreating a posrtive street edge.

The two exist ing houses (with theiradloining garages forming the third 'house')

are l inked along the street edge by theintroductron of a continuous canti leveredcovered walkway over the pavement. Thefolded roof of the walkway runs the lengthof the street. creatino a sense of movement

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the site while taking up the varyings of the dif ferent exist ing f loor levels

re 'houses'. Clear polycarbonate sheetings l ight in to mark the entrances of thes. The high level of the canopy createse for signage and greater visibi l i ty. Typical:ectural elements from the high streetogies of Parkhurst, Parktown North and't le, such as bay windows, canopies and

ardahs over the pavement, are given aemporary rer nterpretatron

l lar 'mum coverage and FAR (f loor areaare achieved. In addit ion, the courtyards

een the separate 'houses' have shapedgnlles to create secure outdoor shops

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Ya'ous elements f rom the exist inq houses':rsed in the conversion to shops - fromced pressed steel cei l ings to exist ing

: ' doors, turned upside down andto create addit ional height. These

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domestic origins. The exist ing roof trussesare braced where necessary and exposedinternal ly, adding height to the interior of theshops. Polycarbonate sheeting skyl ights al lowlight to wash in from above. The materialsused are simple, residential in nature and leftin an unfinished state - from plain screededfloors with screeded skirt ings to galvanisedcorrugated iron sheeting and natural cement-plastered external walls. I'ew context, while maintaining their

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