Salvado Street Residence by Bates Smart Architects
Bates Smart Architects designed the Salvado Street Residence in Perth, Australia.
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Description from Bates Smart Architects:
Conceived as a compact and low maintenance residence for a retired couple in Cottesloe, Western Australia, the Salvado Street Residence is a modernist inspired beach home with a clear and rational design to suit the needs of its occupants which breaks with its suburban context of 1970’s brick and tile townhouses.
The design draws inspiration from modernist ideals of living which are tempered by a critical regionalist response to climate and place. Minimal lines and planar forms reference its modernist inspiration whilst materiality and detailing draw from a local palette of materials.
The planning concept is based on a courtyard typology featuring a pond, around which the private spaces and the public entertainment spaces are organised. This duality is emphasised architecturally by separate treatments of the private and public spaces: the public spaces are open plan, outward-oriented and unenclosed spaces gathered under a floating Miesian roof whilst the private spaces are inwardly focused and enclosed within thick masonry walls which create a sense of privacy and retreat.
The Salvado Street Residence, drawing simultaneously on the spatial qualities of the International Style and the regional context of coastal Western Australia, reveals a unique take of contemporary Australian Architecture.
Visit the Bates Smart Architects website – here.
Photography by Tyrone Branigan
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Rube on 08 Apr 2011 at 7:46 am #
There are some great elements to this house, well done!
hugo on 08 Apr 2011 at 8:27 am #
looks like a direct copy of the ‘barcelona pavilion’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_pavilion
… plus an ugly white fence.
…and, strangely, no privacy from the street or the neighbours.
Bjz on 08 Apr 2011 at 9:32 am #
love it! love it! love it! let’s have some yellow tail wine while we enjoy this place…
Andrew on 08 Apr 2011 at 3:39 pm #
Hello fishes!
al on 09 Apr 2011 at 1:14 am #
standard issue modernist box..nice but not interesting
BMG on 09 Apr 2011 at 4:36 pm #
@hugo; are you serious? Many buildings have similar features to this and the Barcelona Pavilion. That is why they are on a website like this.
If you look at the floor plans and materials they are nothing like each other at all! The only ‘similarities’ is that they both have a floor, roof, glass and some walls.
I think this is a great example of architecture that suits the client’s brief and the location brilliantly. I would be more than happy to call it my home. Well done.
hugo on 09 Apr 2011 at 11:57 pm #
@BMG: are you serious? it’s definitely a HOUSE, but not a HOME: unless you’re an exhibitionist, or a tomato.
Maira Evans on 10 Apr 2011 at 10:31 am #
Simple and neat. Only objection: the furniture! Lovely courtyard – water element.
Dennis on 11 Apr 2011 at 1:48 am #
nice house, but please work on the lineweights of your floorplans
PD on 14 Apr 2011 at 6:04 am #
Rather pointless and ill thought comments about resembling other houses.
Anyway, it appears that the walls of glass are designed to take in the ocean views you can see in some photos. It has a very pleasing aesthetic to me. Design is subjective after all.
hugo on 16 Apr 2011 at 8:22 am #
If you think design is completely subjective then why are there such things as architects? why do some houses posted here garner only positive comments- and others reams of negative ones?
AprilAries on 17 Apr 2011 at 10:48 am #
Have a drink Hugo!!
Rashed Kamal on 18 Apr 2011 at 6:17 pm #
Very modern house plan.