Adelaide Street House | Robert Simeoni Architects

This house at 27 Adelaide Street was imagined as an occupied ruin, allowing it to parallel and frame the internal life and graceful aging of a young family in place.

The house is expressed externally as a series of concrete forms aligning with the proportions and scale of the street, and is broken by lightweight infill that expresses its internal occupation, together achieving a balanced composition of solidity and transparency.

The concrete continues internally, framing views that are orientated inwards between spaces and onto the central courtyard which is used to bring northern light deep into the linear plan, moderate the scale of the building from the surrounding context, and minimise reliance on outward openings that reduces overlooking and solar heat gain. High–level windows at the upper storey gesture to the sky, further reducing views outward in favour of upward.