A South African Home With a Green Roof Opens Completely to the Landscape

To understand the South African wilderness, you need to immerse yourself in the landscape, taking in the omnipresence of nature: the sounds of chirping birds and frogs, whistling wind through the trees, and the rustling of the grass in the breeze. It was this atmosphere that Belgian brothers Xavier and Damien Huyberechts wanted to capture when they built the Witklipfontein Eco Lodge in the Vredefort Dome area, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that marks the world’s largest impact crater roughly 75 miles southwest of Johannesburg.