The Adelaide’s 111 Esplanade demonstrates a masterly control of light and space, the fundamentals of good architecture. Located in Adelaide, Australia, this house was designed with spectacular success by Tridente Architects is simple, well resolved, environmentally sensitive and robust. The brief called for two two-storey semi-detached houses, united behind a single facade: an experiment in higher density coastal architecture that doesn’t lose sight, literally or figuratively, of the coast. One of the houses will be kept by the owner as their private residence; the other is being sold.
Each house consists of three distinct masses, separated by voids and joined by bridges. The precariousness of crossing a bridge hails back to jetties and planks, the uncertain transport of the sea and the thin crossings that link water to land. Simultaneously, the voids open the house vertically, lighting the house naturally from without and allowing glimpses, natural light and a sense of space to penetrate the interior. Constantly aware of its marine backdrop, oriented towards the sea, 111 Esplanade ensures visitors and inhabitants retain a keen sense of the beach. Tridente describes the facade as “a contemporary reinterpretation of the Victorian-period seaside architecture in this area”, another oblique incorporation of the seaside aesthetic. Certainly, it retains the scale and the white facade of this older architecture. The real story, though, might be in its departures. The voids cut strips from the building, jagged omissions that deconstruct the solid façades of this Victorian architecture.
The front of the beach house is even more dramatic, with irregular, non repeating aluminium fins that seem to allude vaguely to Victorian-era colonnades while creating a dynamic and distinctively modern sense of chance and movement. From these nineteenth-century allusions, Tridente captures the sense of spontaneity and relaxed activity that we associate with the twenty-first century beach. The fins are more than an aesthetic gesture, however. Protruding from and protecting the almost all-glass façade, they offer a compromise between exposure and interaction. Without interfering with the views, they provide privacy and shade, limiting solar gain on the exposed west-facing street frontage and creating a transitional zone between private living spaces and public thoroughfares. The bedrooms, all located on the first floor, are more secluded again, offering a private retreat from the movement of the street.
In this sense, 111 Esplanade functions as a more sophisticated, more permanent corollary to the spreading of towels and planting of umbrellas. Acknowledging limited space and adopting a generous attitude towards it, welcoming the beach but protecting against its worst excesses, deferring but not surrendering to the environment, Tridente’s design is a remarkable statement of coastal architecture. Contemporary not just stylistically but in its consciousness of the shortage of space and the necessity of sustainability, it is a confident gesture towards the future of seaside design. The distinctive “fins” of 111’s façade protect the all-glass street frontage from light, heat and inquisitive passers-by. The white structure, interspersed by tinted glass, mimics the colours of Adelaide’s beaches. Inside view of the voids. The structural masses are connected by bridges that reference the nautical environment, while allowing light to traverse the space.
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