Residence 264 is a new and innovative house typology derived from its site’s constraints and designed to take advantage of its location’s amenity. Located within an urban city context, the small site is contained between building forms on three sides with a south facing street frontage.

The design is crafted to respond to its street setting by maintaining the city street built form with a two storey articulated open brick facade providing security and privacy to the residence within.

The small site footprint compels the 3 bedroom family home to be extended over three levels with the introduction of landscaped courtyards, light voids, and roof terraces enabling a high standard of passive design and amenity to the internal spaces.

The private bedrooms and bathrooms of the house are located on the ground level with access and outlook to green landscaped gardens. The main open-plan living area, located on level 1, is setback from the adjoining 2 storey north boundary wall to allow daylight to penetrate within the dwelling and creates a private outdoor terrace adjacent the kitchen. Large glazed walls to the north and south allows for natural cross ventilation and expands the space to feel more generous than its actual size. The additional second level living space is recessed from the street and is fully glazed to extend out to a large external roof terrace to create a flexible entertaining space with surprising views to the city skyline.

Contained within the crafted brick architecture are a variety of internal spaces to create the sanctuary of a home within the urban city setting. The ground floor bedrooms are light and warm with oak timber floor boards and sharp white walls and ceilings. This contrasts to the living areas which are surrounded in dark timber joinery and natural grey stone floors. The kitchen becomes the focal point with its character white marble stone to create a sophisticated and composed interior. The homes limitation of space is disguised with the integrated transition of inside and out through the full glazed walls and brick entering the space and the external light and landscaping feeling part of the interior.

Residence 264 clearly demonstrates that a small site can overcome its limitations with carefully considered design and site configuration. Its textured and highly articulated architecture responses to the gritty urban street setting while concealing the amenity, richness and comfort of a family home within.

Photography by Peter Fisher

GS Garage is a small detached addition to an existing residence. Designed not only to store a car collection but to showcase the automobiles as pieces of art. The retrained pallet of materials and setting within the residential garden creates a subdued space for the objects within to rest. The upper level lounge area allows for views out to the private garden and within through voids to the garage below. A projecting frameless glass box allows for one automobile to be admired from the existing residence and adjoining external garden and entertaining area.

Photography by Sam Noonan

A sanctuary within a suburban scale setting. The Tennyson Residence starts with a gate entry from a narrow harsh street and progresses through a series of crafted and textured spaces created by the built forms and the negative spaces in between.

To create a relaxed and retreat style home that captures the beach side setting, the concept was to compose a series of forms that framed views, screened spaces from the neighbouring houses, and generated visual and usable spaces off a informal open-plan living.

The off-set of building forms from one another create courtyards, undercover terraces and internal spaces all connected to produce a variety of environments enriched by the textured materials, natural light and sculptured landscapes that surround them. The design allowing for a flexible home for the young family of five to enjoy together, isolate from one another, or share with their large extended families.

Photography by Sam Noonan

Located on one of Adelaide’s largest city squares, the Bohem development creates a significant addition to the city skyline and street vistas. Consisting of 220 apartments and ground floor retail, the development is actively contributing to the reinvigoration of Whitmore Square and its surrounding precinct. The highly articulated building is scaled with the pushing and pulling of the apartment designs with no repetitive floor plans. The layering of brick, concrete and steel to the facades is complimentary to the lower scale surrounding context and the integration of vertical landscaping links the building to the adjacent park.

Client : Starfish developments

Builder : Maxcon Constructions

Structural & Civil : Adams Consulting

Services : Bestec

Landscape : Tract

Certifier : Katnich Dodd

Photography : Peter Fisher

Recognition

UDIA State Award for High Density Housing

UDIA State Award for Urban Renewal

UDIA State Award for Innovation in Development

UDIA State Award for Innovation in Design Excellence

The vision of Opus on Hutt is to create high quality apartments with all the amenities of a family home, together with the advantages of amazing views and city living lifestyle.

The development proposes a 14 storey building with ground floor retail and basement car parking. A mix of one, two and three bedroom apartments over 11 floors provide a total of 45 large, high quality apartments which sits elevated above a 3 storey building podium. The residential floor plans are provided with large setbacks to the sides boundaries to create a highly articulated built form which orientates apartments to the impressive views from its location. Four to five apartments per floor are orientated to the corners to maximise natural daylight and cross ventilation as well as provide privacy and unique outlooks to each apartment. 

The expression to Hutt Street proposes four forms to scale the building to the proportions of the existing surrounding built forms. Floors are expressed in four storey forms with recessed negative above the podium and on level eight. A recessed gap with curved corners expressed in plan creates a vertical break between the forms separating the horizontally expressed balconies and providing privacy to the apartments. Above level seven the built form to the street sets back a further 3 meters to further reduce the building mass and create a highly articulated and sculptural expression to the overall building.

Overall the projects brief to create highly active ground floor retail and unique apartment layouts in size, amenity, quality and design, together with the sculptured built form and unique crafted materials will produce a sought after residential address for Adelaide.

Client : Proton Developments

Project Manager : Boscaini Commercial

Planning : Future Urban Group

Structural & Civil : Structural Systems

Building Services : Lucid Consulting

Certifier : Trent Fuller

Located on the Esplanade of one of Adelaide’s most desired suburbs, 303 Esplanade redefines beach-front luxury with it’s contemporary coastal architecture and interior design. It is a unique site with opportunities for maximized uninterrupted views of the beach-front and iconic Henley beach jetty. The generous balconies and optimised glazing allows occupants to embrace this unique location.

303 Esplanade proposes 12 apartments with a mix of 2 and 3 bedroom options, all with access to the below ground carpark. The design creates a contemporary take on coastal apartment living through its use of sandstone, ocean blue tiles and white render. The highly articulated built form and sophisticated interior palette of materials creates a striking identity that enhances its location and desirable residential address.

88OC is a competition design for the reinvigoration of O’Connell Street in North Adelaide. The design proposed a highly activate site with a mix of hotel, retail, commercial, civic and private residential townhouses and apartments.

Submission for Starfish developments was in collaboration with Warren Mahoney.

The concept for the new 6 Star Riverbank Hotel showcasing the States indigenous history was conceived for its prime location on the Riverbank foreshore in the CBD of Adelaide.  The development proposed a 300 room hotel, 10000sqm of commercial office as well as high-end retail and lifestyle facilities. 

Peter Fisher Photography

A family home located 100 meters from the River Torrens linear park walk. This 4 bedroom luxury home offers privacy  from the street, with open plan living overlooking a generous rear yard and pool. The folding forms at the rear of the building create protected outdoor areas and large internal living spaces of various heights. 

Interior Design by DesignThink.

Photography by Peter Fisher

The Summit Sports and Recreation Park located at Mount Barker provides local, state and on occasion national sporting clubs in Australian Rules Football, Soccer, Cricket, Tennis and Netball a new and exciting facility with equal amenities for both male and female participation. The Sporting Hub is connected via three road access points and is designed to encourage the regional community to participate in both active sports as well as passive community events.

Masterplan and Landscape by Oxigen

58 Iparrityi Apartments located on the south-east corner of Whitmore Square at No.8 Hocking Place Adelaide, aims to create an exclusive and boutique mixed use development comprising of one ground floor commercial tenancy and 11 apartments.

The composition and creative form of the building together with the highly articulated facade, high quality materials and fine grain detailing creates a boutique and sophisticated original addition to Whitmore Square.

Client : Studio Simpatico

Gilbert Apartments located in the south-west quadrant of Adelaide’s CBD aims to create an exclusive and boutique mixed use development comprising of one ground floor commercial tenancy and 13 apartments with orientation to north city views or south parkland views.

Overall the highly articulated form, composition of materials and shadowing from the detailed vertical battens create a sophisticated and contemporary development to compliment the unique apartment offerings within.

The Fullarton addition is designed to expand on a very loved family home with an upper level addition that compliments the existing character home. The gabled form addition reflects the numerous existing gable forms with simple seamed zinc cladding to contrast with the detailed timber eaves, fascias and gables of the existing. 

Working with a strong existing building fabric, the detailed addition aims to revitalise the interior spaces to be light filled and visually connected to the external areas to create a more contemporary home while maintaining the desired character.

Hamilton Hill, Woodforde, is a new residential development where the vibrant lifestyle of the city meets the serene beauty of the Adelaide Hills.

Located on the base of the foothills, Hamilton Hill Stage 1 & 2 consist of 128 townhouses with a mix of two and three bedroom townhouses with a variety of plan and architectural expressions. Streetscapes have been carefully designed to create a contemporary and individual residential development.

Photos by Peter Fisher Photography

The design vision for the Dock One Waterfront aims to create a unique urban residential place that responses and contributes to the waterfront amenity and is influenced by the historic and industrial character of Port Adelaide. The location and size of the development allows the opportunity to create a new residential precinct that would identify with its context and surrounding character while transitioning the area into a quality and sustainable residential address.

Stage 1 accommodates over 100 residential dwellings with a variety of housing types allowing for a healthy social mix of occupants and respond to the communities need for lifestyle and affordability. 

Building forms respond to the Port Adelaide context in relation to proportion, materials and textures to create the desired future character and identity to the precinct. The design aims to take advantage of the unique waterfront setting encouraging both private and public activation and high quality public spaces. The integration of landscaping and terraced private spaces within the built form will result in greater aesthetic quality and amenity for both occupants and the public.  

The new residential precinct will create a contemporary aesthetic influenced by the interpretation of the existing historical character and responding to its unique waterfront setting. 

Located centrally in the new master-planned development on the edge of the Adelaide foothills of Woodforde, the Kelso apartments consists of 46 apartments over 4 levels offering a diverse residential product to the individual dwellings and terraces that occupy the surrounding allotments.

The 4 storey building above is expressed in 4 masses, three forms of textured white concrete with semi recesses balconies sit along side one another with varied pitched parapets to create a rhythm to the facade and reduce the overall scale of the building form. The fourth mass is located one level lower on the ground to step with the site and allow the lobby entry to be located to the street. 

Overall the proposed residential apartment building, scaled to be expressed as four masses with varying roof parapets, recessed balconies, and articulated window opening, aims to create a sculptured and visually interesting building that comfortably sits within the edge of the park reserve and the townhouse allotments that surround it.

Client : Starfish Developments

Builder : Hutchinson

Structural & Civil : Structural Systems

Building Services : Lucid Consulting

Certifier : Katnich Dodd