… projects done
Mountain Staircase
The project entails building a long mountain staircase up a steep mountainside.
The concept here was to build a low tech staircase with decks and platforms that connected a private landowner’s garage to his house, some 150 meters up. Building staircases up steep mountain terrain all about how one interacts with the natural flow of water. It's 90% planning and 10% labor.
Alien timber was sourced from a local wood-yard and a solid, low spec design was chosen to build the cascading staircases, platforms and viewing decks. Low tech does not mean low-grade, as this example shows.
The work was an opportunity to employ four unemployed men from the local township of Masiphumele and teach basic carpentry skills, including fence building.
Private Owners, St. James, Cape Town