Paarl Rock is the fifth building in Conradie Park, a new mixed-income, mixed-use housing development in Cape Town, near main arterial routes, and the Mutual and Thornton railway stations in the Pinelands suburb.
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Upon completion, the 8 storey Paarl Rock block will comprise 266 apartments in an affordable model for first-time homeowners. It will include ground-floor retail space, two lifts, and a rooftop deck on the sixth floor facing westwards at Devil’s Peak and over the Cape Town central business district towards Signal Hill.
Inovação de Projeto
Paarl Rock’s innovations include an energy-efficient hot water system for residents, which will help lower their cost of living and take the load off the national electricity grid. The system includes a centralized hot water generation system on the ground floor and an on-roof solar generator that will assist in ‘over-heating water during the day in a specially-designed storage vessel to around 85 to 90 C.
The project is also conserving water and reducing water costs by supplying its own irrigation needs from a master incoming line of treated effluent, at just 5 to 10% of the cost of potable water. The water quality from this line, which is considerably clean enough to be discharged into river systems, is further treated on-site and also used for all irrigation and cleaning purposes.
An overview of Conradie Park
The Conradie Park comprises more than 3 500 homes complemented by numerous businesses, two affordable private schools, three crèches’, an aspirational convenient retail center, business hotel, medical facilities, doggy day-care, town square & community center.
It also includes a number of pocket-parks and a 22,000m2 linear park with its Saturday morning “Park Run” already plotted, the development is being touted as an ‘affordable, sustainable, self-contained town for the future.
Equipe de projeto
The Conradie Park is developed by a partnership between Concor e os votos de Administração Western Cape.