Sustainable and Low Maintenance Residence Design – Salvado Street Residence by Bates Smart Architects

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Designed for a retired couple in Cottesloe, Western Australia, the Salvado Street House adapt its design from beach home with a clear and rational design in order to response the local climate. 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 organized. The duality of space functionality is emphasized 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. Photography by Tyrone Branigan

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