Homes not Houses
An unprecedented number of new homes is the single largest component of the development.
Northgate Estates was conceptualized to create a safe and secure environment for modern professionals. We want to take this further and make it an environment that enhances these people’s daily lives. This all starts with creating homes that inspire, and homes that are designed to be relevant now, and in the future.
The inspiration of our Homes is that they are unique because time and love have been spent designing these buildings to best address the needs of their inhabitants, now and in their future. Needs ranging from how the home relates to its broader context, how the services are designed to be sustainable, at what time of day and year the sun enters the various rooms, and how each room supports the movements within it in the most natural and effortless way – have been considered.
Our Northgate Estates Residential component include:
- 400 sqm Stands,
- 500-600 sqm Stands,
- 1200 sqm Stands and
- Cluster Housing / Garden Flats
Architectural Guidelines
Northgate Homes should be a sequence of beautiful, simple, clean forms, with an architectural language which is both elegant, and intentionally different to what you would normally expect of a low-cost housing development.
Through careful consideration of the proportions and design it’s possible to create homes that are both beautiful, sustainable, and budget friendly.
Thoughtful consideration of the orientation of the houses on the stands is important. It enhances passive climate control, and light control , ensuring comfortable spaces in which to live.
Our design philosophy for the development is to enhance life through excellence
in design.
Life enhancing aspects of these homes would range from:
- Good climatically-related contextually relevant design
- Advanced level of attention to detail in terms of the functions of the spaces within the home
- The seamless integration of nature into the spaces
- The opportunities created for growing food from the natural landscape around the homes
- The fostering of great communities through thoughtful town planning and real street life
- The creation of pride, individually, and as a community through uniquely well-designed homes that speak of concerns for beauty and authenticity