Fenwick Lane Houses Brooklyn, Cape Town
Eight new homes on the doorstep of the city Completion – 2021 – designed by Wolff Architects 3 bed | 2 bath – from R 1.9m 2 bed | 2 bath – from R 1.7m 1 bed | 1 bath – from R 862k Studio | 1 bath – from R 575k
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A design-driven development by Contents Welcome 2 About Fenwick Lane 4 Spaces for living 6 Great outdoors 8 Site specifics 10 Privacy + communality 12 Adaptability 14 Brooklyn 16 Proximity + access 17 Wolff Architects 19 Project team 20 Unit details 21 Purchasing 29 Contact us 30
Contents 1 Welcome We’re excited to be releasing more information about Fenwick Lane – a project we’ve been working on with Wolff Architects since early 2019.
You might find that our description of this project reads a bit differently to that of others – and that’s because this project and our approach are a bit different. While we operate within the constraints of any other commercial developer, we’re interested in property development as a means of making and shaping a better city.
The main ambition for this project has always been about access to the city – creating new opportunities for home ownership within Cape Town’s inner suburbs. As a departure from the investor-centric developments one sees going up around the city, we’ve imagined Fenwick Lane as a genuinely nice place to make a home.
We hope you like what we’ve come up with.
Gareth Pearson Founder + Director, Stadium
Welcome 2 Fenwick Lane includes eight units across three separate buildings, each unit having its own entrance from the street. View – Corner ofFenwick Street and DiepStreet
3 About Fenwick Lane Fenwick Lane is a collection of eight new homes in Brooklyn, a suburb just 4km from Cape Town’s CBD. We set out to create a place that is a pleasure to live in, close to the city centre, and within an accessible price range.
The project is a provocation against the freestanding house – injecting a bit of urbanity into suburbia. We’ve designed a more compact, considered suburban home – placing quality before quantity and making better use of less space. The result is a great degree of liveability – at home and in one’s day-to-day experience of the city.
We’ve also factored in a diversity of housing needs, and the inevitability of changing demands on these spaces over the short- and long-term. The thorough design process with Wolff Architects has resulted in a unique project made to stand the test of time and adapt to the needs of its residents and the world around it.
About Fenwick Lane 4 The upper floor units enjoy high ceilings, a useful storage mezzanine, and for the South-facing units – fantastic mountain views. View – Upper floor unit living area unitliving area floor Upper ( Unit 1b ) 5 Spaces for living First and foremost, these homes have been designed to be great spaces for living.
Each unit has an open kitchen and living area, adjoined by bedrooms and ensuite bathrooms. Ground floor living areas enjoy stacking doors that allow for seamless indoor- outdoor entertaining, while the upper floor living areas enjoy a great spacial quality created by the high ceilings. Most units benefit from either Northern sun or magnified mountain views.
The square bedroom windows are the width of a conventional door, thoughtfully placed to cast a great quality of light without jeopardising privacy or thermal comfort.
Complementing volume and light, the smart use of simple materials adds texture and warmth to the interiors, while ensuring these buildings are robust and easy to maintain throughout their lifetimes.
Each unit also has generous storage space. In addition to the bedroom cupboards, ground floor units have useful alcove spaces while upper floor units have storage mezzanines stretching the full length of each room.
Spaces for living 6 Ground floor units have stacking doors that allow for seamless indoor- outdoor living and entertaining. View – Ground unit livingarea floor ( Unit 1a ) 7 Great outdoors Private outdoor space is one of those luxuries that often motivates the purchase of a suburban home. We’ve given great attention to such spaces in this project, with all but one of the units having their own private yards.
These are spaces to plant a garden, to braai with friends, to work on that weekend DIY project, to make your own. Their well-defined proportions make them comfortable spaces to be in, low maintenance, and easy to transform into something special.
The ground floor yards are framed by a recess in the building facade – which creates a useful built-in seat or ledge for placing pot plants. Upper floor units have the additional feature of balconies that extend from the living areas – great spaces to enjoy a cup of coffee on a nice morning, or a drink while taking in the last light on a calm evening.
Most of the yards also double as private off-street parking for a car or two, with the yards of the two smaller lane- facing units big enough for a motorcycle.
Great outdoors 8 Each unit’s private outdoor space is compact but comfortable, made to feel like a room – one that can be used and decorated in different ways. View – Ground unit yard floor ( Unit 1a ) 9 Site specifics Fenwick Lane is located in Brooklyn on the corner of Shaddock Street and Diep Street, with a pedestrianised section of Fenwick Street forming one of the boundaries.
The eight homes are distributed across three buildings, each within the footprint of three separate erven. Each building has one unit on the ground level, with the upper level including one or two units. The scheme leverages the allowance for the addition of second and third dwellings on single residential (SR1) zoned properties in the City of Cape Town’s municipal planning by-law.
The unique layout of the site allows for each unit to have a private entrance from the street, creating active edges along all three boundaries. Upper floor units are accessed via private staircases that are hidden behind the building facade.
The lane runs along the Fenwick Street boundary, which we see becoming a great asset for the neighbourhood with the planting of trees and surfacing of a wider path.
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The ground floor site plan shows the basic two-bedroom footprint of each footprint the basic two-bedroom plan shows floor site The ground fit together. yards private the seven building, with a sense of how Site specifics 11 Privacy + communality Possibly the most interesting feature of this project is the spatial relationship between the eight units.
Each building is pushed up against the outer boundaries of the site, creating a more defined public realm. Ground level units have a hard edge along this outer boundary, opening up onto their yards within the interior of the site. Upper level units are orientated in the opposite direction, overlooking the street or lane.
The result is that each unit enjoys privacy, internal yard spaces are comfortable and secure, and the surrounding streets are made safer with ‘eyes on the street’ from upper level units.
With privacy protected, neighbours can go about their lives out of sight from each other. That being said, one isn’t moving alone into a freestanding home, nor is one moving into a massive complex where everyone is a stranger. The scale of this project presents a unique opportunity for a friendly community to form amongst Fenwick Lane’s eight new neighbours.
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“Privacy was an important consideration in the design – when the ground floor unit opens up in one direction, the first floor unit opens up in the opposite direction. Security is enhanced by a perimeter wall and by windows and balconies on the first floor overlooking activity on the street. On the ground floor, the houses have a fantastic connection with their outside spaces and on the upper floors there are great views over the neighbourhood.”
– Heinrich Wolff, Wolff Architects This section drawing illustrates how ground floor units face inwards while floor units face inwards ground how illustrates This section drawing and lane. the street the upper floor units overlook Privacy + communality 13 Adaptability Something that many new developments seem to ignore is the simple fact that people have a diversity of housing needs, and these needs tend to change over time. We’ve addressed this with a range of unit sizes, but also through adaptability.
The device that allows for this adaptability is in the basic two-bedroom floor plan. The built-in cupboards form the walls between the bedrooms and the central living area. If someone wanted one large open studio space, they could simply remove these walls. More useful though is the way in which one utilises the space of the second bedroom.
A couple might only need one bedroom, opting for a larger living area or a home office. This space could be curtained off when having guests stay over, or converted back into a bedroom as their household grows. Alternatively, a downsizing household might find less of a need for the extra room, in which case it could be converted and rented out as a self-contained unit with its own front door.
Unit 2a has the added benefit of a third room, which could be used as a bedroom, office, or storage space, or in the long-term this could even be used as a small shop with a hatch that opens onto the street.
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The park along the Black River is just two blocks away, with the convenience of shops dotted around the neighbourhood and Koeberg Road within walking distance. Just up the road from Fenwick Lane is Bill Riley Meat, a Brooklyn institution that brings welcome activity to the neighbourhood during the day.
Brooklyn 16 Proximity + access This project is part of a vision for a more compact, sustainable city – redirecting growth through the thickening of the existing urban fabric, as opposed to low density sprawl along the urban periphery.
A more compact city is a more accessible city, ultimately translating into quality of life, with more time and money to spend on the things one truly enjoys doing. It’s a city where getting to work doesn’t require sitting in traffic for an hour or more in each direction, a city where it’s feasible for a household to have one car instead of two, a city where taking public transport is not a necessity but a no-brainer.
One of the great things about Brooklyn: options. The CBD is a few minutes away by car or Uber, and 10 to 15 minutes by bus or bicycle thanks to the dedicated MyCiTi route. The N1 and M5 make for easy access to Century City, UCT and the Southern Suburbs – and Milnerton beach is just up the road for sunset walks or squeezing in a surf before work.
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h g - Fenwick Lane 0m a Black River Studio* 415m y b Vrystaat MyCiTi station 450m m c Brooklyn Masjid 450m x f d Usave supermarket 550m e DIY Hardware 550m b f The Shred skatepark** 1000m Green Point Fenwick Lane g CityRock climbing gym 1700m h Milnerton Flea Market 1700m i Pick n Pay Maitland 2300m j Italian Club 2750m a k Lagoon Beach 3500m Brooklyn d l Salt River Circle 3500m e m Centre Point mall 3800m c n Milnerton lighthouse 4500m s o Royal Cape Yacht Club 4500m MyCiTi p Woodstock Exchange 4500m CBD q Lower Main Road Obs 4500m N1 r Civic Centre station 5000m o s Century City 5000m Bo-Kaap r t Groote Schuur Hospital 5500m u River Club driving range 5700m v CPUT 6700m i w UCT 6800m x V&A Waterfront 7000m y Sea Point Promenade 9600m p l Woodstock ∆ All distances are based on the shortest v route by road, or by foot or bike path for Gardens closer destinations. u Salt River Main Rd * Their 50/50 fine art print collaborations make for a great first art purchase for your new home. q ** The best coffee in the neighbourhood - from good old Deluxe Coffeeworks. Observatory Vredehoek t Oranjezicht N2
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Proximity + access 18 Wolff Architects Wolff is an award-winning design and research studio led by Heinrich and Ilze Wolff. Their portfolio includes large public projects like Vredenburg Hospital and Cheré Botha School, as well as smaller residential projects and art studios.
Globally renowned for their work, Wolff was named by Domus magazine as one of the world’s 50 best architecture firms in 2020. Wolff have brought their expertise to this project with a hardworking design for a challenging site.
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Wolff Architects 19 Project team Developer – Stadium Architect – Wolff Architects Structural engineer – De Villiers + Hulme Electrical engineer – QDP Quantity surveyor – LDM
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About Stadium
Stadium is a design-driven property development company based in Cape Town. We pursue projects that engage with issues of urbanity, access and sustainability.
Stadium is led by Gareth Pearson. Gareth is a co-founder of public cultural initiatives including First Thursdays in Cape Town and Johannesburg, and a graduate of the Cities programme at the London School of Economics.
Project team 20 Unit 1a
Unit 2a yard
Site footprint Unit level
Yard Parking R 1 840 000 incl. VAT
Bedrooms 2 Bathrooms 2
Diep Street Parking 1 car Unit 1b yard
Level Ground Orientation North
Internal area 48m2 Yard area 59m2 Total useable area 107m2
Highlights: Indoor-outdoor living Plenty of sun Fenwick Lane Study / storage nook N Bond repayment* R 13 089 /m
*Using Ooba’s calculator, with a 10% deposit + 7.25% interest rate
Unit details 21 Unit 1b
Unit 1a yard Site footprint Unit level
Yard R 1 725 000 incl. VAT
Bedrooms 2 Bathrooms 2 Parking 1 car (potential)
Level Upper Diep Street Orientation South Parking
Internal area 47m2 Storage level 9m2 Balcony 3m2 Yard area 51m2 Total useable area 110m2
Highlights: Mountain views Fenwick Lane High ceilings N Storage mezzanine
Bond repayment* R 12 271 /m
*Using Ooba’s calculator, with a 10% deposit + 7.25% interest rate Unit details 22 Unit 2a
Shaddock Street
Site footprint Unit level
R 1 897 500 incl. VAT
Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms 2 Parking 1 car
Level Ground Diep Street
Unit 2b yard Orientation South
Internal area 51m2 Yard Parking Yard area 55m2 Total useable area 106m2
Highlights: Third room Indoor-outdoor living Unit 1a yard Bond repayment* R 13 498 /m N
*Using Ooba’s calculator, with a 10% deposit + 7.25% interest rate
Unit details 23 Unit 2b
Shaddock Street
Site footprint Unit level
R 1 150 000 incl. VAT
Unit 2c Bedrooms 1 Parking Bathrooms 1 Parking** 1 car (potential)
Level Upper
Unit 3a yard Orientation North
Internal area 30m2 Storage level 6m2 Yard Unit 2a yard Balcony 2m2 Yard area 36m2 Total useable area 74m2
Highlights: Plenty of sun High ceilings N Storage mezzanine
Bond repayment* R 8 180 /m
*Using Ooba’s calculator, with a 10% deposit + 7.25% interest rate Unit details 24 Unit 2c Storage mezzanine detail showing potential use for a bed.
Shaddock Street
Site footprint Unit level
R 575 000 incl. VAT
Bedrooms Studio Bathrooms 1 Parking Street
Level Upper Orientation North Unit 2b
Diep Street Internal area 15m2 Storage level 2m2 Balcony 5m2 Entrance 2m2 Total useable area 24m2
Highlights: Plenty of sun High ceilings N Storage mezzanine
Bond repayment* R 4 090 /m
*Using Ooba’s calculator, with a 10% deposit + 7.25% interest rate Unit details 25 Unit 3a
Shaddock Street
Parking Site footprint Unit level Unit 2b yard
R 1 955 000 incl. VAT Parking Yard Bedrooms 2 Bathrooms 2 Parking 2 cars
Level Ground Orientation North
Internal area 50m2 Yard area 89m2 Total useable area 139m2
Unit 1b yard
Highlights: Indoor-outdoor living Plenty of sun Large yard N Bond repayment* R 13 907 /m
*Using Ooba’s calculator, with a 10% deposit + 7.25% interest rate
Unit details 26 Unit 3b
Site footprint Unit level
R 862 500 incl. VAT Unit 3c
Bedrooms 1 Bathrooms 1 Parking Street
Level Upper Orientation South
Internal area 23m2 Yard Storage level 6m2 Balcony 5m2 Yard area 17m2 Total useable area 51m2
Highlights: Mountain views Fenwick Lane High ceilings N Storage mezzanine
Bond repayment* R 6 135 /m
*Using Ooba’s calculator, with a 10% deposit + 7.25% interest rate Unit details 27 Unit 3c
Site footprint Unit level
R 690 000 Unit 3b incl. VAT
Bedrooms Studio Bathrooms 1 Parking Street
Level Upper Orientation South Yard Internal area 18m2 Storage level 4m2 Balcony 3m2 Yard area 10m2 Total useable area 35m2 Storage mezzanine detail Fenwick Lane Highlights: showing potential use for a bed. Mountain views High ceilings N Storage mezzanine
Bond repayment* R 4 908 /m
*Using Ooba’s calculator, with a 10% deposit + 7.25% interest rate Unit details 28 Purchasing Fenwick Lane is due for completion in late 2021. We’ll be opening sales by Q4 of 2020, at which point we will have final design details and pricing in place. First option to purchase will be given to owner-occupiers – buyers who intend to make a home at Fenwick Lane.
– Prices include VAT, with no transfer duty incurred by purchasers. Prices published in this document are provisional and may change by the time sales open.
– Fenwick Lane is a sectional title development, for which a body corporate will be established.
– To get a general sense of affordability based on the above pricing, use Ooba’s useful bond affordability calculator.
– If you’re a first-time home owner, you might qualify for a 100% bond, FLISP subsidy, or Rent-to-Buy support.
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