Situated on a quiet street with a north facing rear, the home presents a high level outcome spatially and aesthetically.

The core concept that directed all design decisions throughout the home is the response to daylight and site, resulting in a continual play of sun and shadow that pass in and out of the home throughout the day.

The internal and external living spaces are seamlessly connected with the doors remaining open all day in good weather, providing natural ventilation and allowing for family life to move fluidly between house and garden. The home responds contextually to both the landscape and local built form and alludes to the roominess of mid-century modernism whilst implementing a modern efficiency. High level craftsmanship is then focussed on areas where it will be most appreciated.

Modern, open and welcoming, the home sits comfortably within the landscape to create a sophisticated yet casual living environment.

Chester Street House was designed to accommodate a couple, their three teenage children and one of the couple’s elderly parents.

The design strategy was for two dwellings linked by a low gallery and separated by a courtyard garden.

The planning responds to the site’s sloping topography creating a series of connecting outdoor spaces allowing interaction, privacy and retreat.

The building is integrated with the landscape creating strong connections between indoor and outdoor spaces.

The predominant external materials are concrete and timber. The solidity of the concrete walls is counterbalanced by the lightness and warmth of the timber screens.

Chester Street House is an intergenerational home that supports flexible family interactions. The house challenges conventional notions of the nuclear family home, providing a space for three generations to live independent lives together.

Claremont Haus embodies the principles of lean design and construction with simple design, low-cost materials, efficient structure and prefabricated construction.

Careful design enabled a spacious-feeling and high-performance home on a seriously tiny Claremont site.

A modern reinterpretation of the classic Claremont railway cottages nearby this project demonstrates how functional, affordable and sustainable homes can be achieved with pragmatic and responsive Architectural design.

Concrete House in City Beach; Constructed of off-form concrete, stone clad walls and charred timber cladding blends sustainable design techniques with contemporarty architecture. Its linear form and long planar geometries reflect the home’s panoramic views of the Indian Ocean.

Incorporated Passive house principles have created high-performance thermal walls, floors, and roof, paired with triple glazed European windows. The owners enjoy year-round comfort and thermal performance.

The client wanted a house to start a family in. It had to be robust and modern. It had to reflect their beachy & active lifestyles and feature their penchant for collecting.

They had never built a house before or worked with an architect. A builder had been engaged at the start of the project and also had’t worked with an architect.

By completition, the client’s had realised that architect’s can be great listeners and able to synthesis multiple conditions.

The Eagle Bay Holiday Home takes its inspiration from the native bushland of spikey grass trees and charred black trunks which surround it. Angled to worship the winter sun, its steep-pitched roof mirrors the natural slope of the ground below. The owner’s initial brief to integrate shipping containers within an overall sculptured appeal, was met wherein the four bedroom pods appear to fan away from each other and the central living pavilion. The form of the pods suggest they are individual and private, with their repetition evoking a sense of community. Ocean glimpses expand to a vast native vista as you walk onto the deck. The communal outdoor living (amphitheatre) creates these unrestricted views and a direct physical connection to the landscape below. Its layout redefines the concept of a holiday home for the area, intended to be fun and exciting and connected to its landscape from all sides.

A couple looking towards retirement came to us in search of a house that could provide a place of refuge to live and work peacefully and privately. A house for two, but also a place for many, to host friends and family gatherings. It was also to support their travelling lifestyle: “a glorified lock-up-and-leave” in their own words.

Our design response to the brief and site condition emerged as a singular intent: a semi-outdoor public space enclosed by a layer of private spaces.

This public space is centrally located within the house, and is defined by an enveloping rhythm of weathered steel planks. Open to the sky and framing the views of surrounding trees, it hosts the living areas and has the light condition and physical connotation of an outdoor space.

The selected palette of raw weathered materials and finishes celebrates the unique mineral landscape of Western Australia.

Set on a long narrow site overlooking parklands, the design comprises two pavilions within courtyard gardens. The front pavilion addresses the park with an operable screen allowing privacy into bedrooms and study whilst the rear pavilion is a living ‘cube’ and is provided with extra headroom for relaxation and contemplation. The stair and lift elements tie the pavilions together vertically and horizontally, housing kitchen/dining spaces; an extension of the lush courtyards.

Framed by a bespoke stone and iron gate, the garden entry introduces the palette of stone, glass and iron. These elements transition from outside to inside drawing the exterior in and the interior out. Extensive use of louvred glass windows mirrors the front facade allowing for enhanced cross ventilation across the dwelling. Passive solar orientation is ideal on the lot, minimising heat-gain whilst maximising the northern aspect for winter sun. The long thin plan allows for effective cross-ventilation.

Filter House is new residence located within an historic post-war residential architecture precinct. The Owners, a professional couple with a new child, needed a design for a new home that would cater for their growing family as well as expressing a new sense of environmental and social responsiveness.

The house is organised as a bipartite plan with a bedroom wing to the east and a living wing to the west , joined by the entrance hall that crosses the full length internal “street”. Overarching this is the master bedroom at the upper floor to the west. The internal street is mediator for light, breezes and activities, allowing these elements to filter deep into the site. Concrete masonry blade walling runs north-south with breeze blocks to the extreme tips of these walls. Spaces are captured between the blades. Joining elements are kept permeable and include – steel + timber screens, sliding doors + glass louvres.

The concept for Haldane was inspired by the feeling of coming home after a long morning at the beach in summer. Calm, salty and free. This feeling guided all design decisions from layout, to materials, to landscape.

The layout is a simple rectangle. A low slug, single storey home with an under-croft carport below. The design orientates the garden and main living areas to the north, maximising the natural light and winter sun. The material palette provides a calming atmosphere. Concrete, rammed earth and timber create warmth and texture against the blank canvas backdrop of the white box. The landscape contrasts with the simple built form, its wobbly and wild plants grow up, down and around the house.

Inspired by the curves of the Swan River below and the textural quality of the surrounding landscape, this singular residence is etched into the cliff over Blackwall Reach, offering unparalleled views of the Swan River and beyond from every habitable room.

Differentiating itself from traditional mansion typologies, the residence follows a clear vision – let the occupants experience the landscape from the moment they step foot into the site, and in all rooms throughout. To create this experience, the form of the residence is separated into two clear volumes in plan, joined by transparent sun halls, providing a clear vision right through the residence.

The project directive was to optimise the sunning location, utilise construction techniques and details that reflect the builder’s skillset, maximise habitable space on the 13m site incline, and of course, create a bespoke yet sensitive family home which speaks of place.

This home seeks to challenge the business-as-usual approach to battle-axe subdivisions.

Our brief was to fit more area for gardens and courtyards than the site itself, to flip the typical diagram and make the laneway our front door and opening up in party mode to the adjacent park. It had to be compliant with the R-codes and had to be generous to its neighbors.

This home riffs on the work of Marshall Clifton and Julius Elischer and their search for an appropriate vernacular Architecture for Perth, in this case a courtyard house arranged around and within a series of seasonal garden rooms.

This project has exceeded the brief requirements, approved via delegated authority it achieves 277m2 of gardens and open space on the 256m2 lot and is appreciated by its neighbors’ and the local community for the way it interacts with existing structures, the laneway and the Park.

North Street is a loving homage to the mid-century modernist architecture of Klopper and Davis Architects. Deeply informed by its context and its client, the team have created a beachside home that is fun, warm and textural and responds to contemporary family rhythms and a love of entertaining with ease.

Designed to optimize its coastal location and the natural topography of its site, the planning across three levelsis borne of functionality and passive design principles. Quiet, utilitarian spaces nestle into the topography atground level; living areas and children’s bedroom wing occupy the first floor; and the master suite takes the top floor. A floating concrete canopy rests atop the residence, home to the rooftop garden and continuous panoramic views across the treetops.

Signature elements, such as playful timber joinery, rich materiality and the seamless transition between indoors and out, define this home as an iconic, KADA residence

A rich array of specialist facilities allow engagement with all facets of the Whyalla community, creating an important community hub and an outstanding asset of learning for the City of Whyalla for many generations to come.

This 685m2 site in Swanbourne has a north facing street frontage sloping up 4m front to back. The design solution was to utilise the entire site as a series of indoor and outdoor spaces.

Spaces have been organised around a large central courtyard with swimming pool providing privacy to both the owners and to neighbours. The courtyard provides an “internal view” and focus to the house. Smaller courtyards off the secondary bedrooms provide intimate outdoor spaces and aid cross ventilation and daylighting.

The main open plan kitchen, dining, living room integrates seamlessly with an outdoor room with operable roof. The open plan living space faces the street and large sliding doors slide open to turn the living room into a verandah.

A simple and restrained palette of materials and finishes, the integration of internal and external spaces and considered detailing has resulted in a tranquil and calm house.

This new residence combines the order and legibility of classical architecture with the enthusiasm for technology that vitalise modernism. The design of the principal elevations is defined by four tropes ubiquitous in classical architecture; namely, symmetry, an entablature supported by columns, a raised main floor, and exaggerated height. Each of these classical devices are thoroughly modernised by their engagement with the project brief, material palette, site context and program.

Maximising the residence’s floor-to-ceiling northern windows and using stone floors ensures passive solar heating in winter. In Summer, the 1m deep projecting cornice shades the northern windows and the operable windows to north and south elevations provide breezeways.

Stone House enhances and continues our clients’ long family-history on the site. Our brief was for ‘a small but different’ holiday-house designed for aging with ‘beautiful, sensuous curves.’

Influenced by nature’s curves, the undulating site and trees, the strong, elegant form of Stone House emerges from the hillside resembling an extended branch from the surrounding gums. The hill flows over the single-level accommodation forming a green roof, entirely self-seeded by local species. The double-height living wing topped by a gently floating butterfly roof offers distant views and cross breezes. Emerging from the hillside the house sits in nature rather than on it.

With a BAL FZ fire rating location, access, materiality, and sustainability were key design drivers, including refurbished water tanks, an ATU, solar PV and passive-solar design principles – north-facing orientation, thermal-mass, crossflow breezes, ceilingfans. A wood-fire and minimal air-conditioning to the living and main bedroom provides additional comfort

SHA were approached by past clients to refurbish a ‘Mediterranean-style’ split-level strata unit however the projects brief changed to new-build when we discussed future needs and aging-in-place.

The result is The Pad, a beautifully detailed, Japanese inspired, two-bed single-storey home. The architecture is deliberately understated with a minimal material palette of steel, timber, and polished plaster in muted tones.

Intimately connected to its surroundings, including the Canning River inlets, Swan River and views to the city, nature gently flows into the house via three internal landscaped courtyards providing light, views and breezes deep into the site.

This design demonstrates that it’s possible to create delightful and sustainable infill-housing in spite of multiple constraints and challenges imposed by strata by-laws and regulations.

By prioritising access to light and views – and connections to nature – The Pad provides a welcoming residence for our clients to enjoy their retirement and entertain family and friends.

A rich array of specialist facilities allow engagement with all facets of the Whyalla community, creating an important community hub and an outstanding asset of learning for the City of Whyalla for many generations to come.