With generous proportions, the homes that comprise Adela Apartments combine subtleties and calm to match their location. Jost Architects and Hecker Guthrie propose a series of considered homes that bring modern sensibilities together with crafted and thoughtful tactile details.

As an offering of increased density within a predominantly single-residential area, the resulting homes combine a sense of discretion and muted-ness, brought together through a clean and contemporary lens. Occupying similar proportions as a small house, each apartment captures a familiar scale and volume, separating them from the traditional apartment offering, with matched generous outdoor terrace spaces to allow an extended sense of space and openness. As a series of time enduring homes, Adela Apartments are founded on the conjuring of calm and offering a place of respite for its residents for many years to come. Jost Architects and Hecker Guthrie have successfully responded to context, striking the right balance between open and closed, light and warmth.

Both in its engagement with its site and also in its embrace of sustainable principles to ensure integrated systems that support a lower dependency on external energy and ensure climatic comfort all year, Adela Apartments achieves an 8-star NatHERs Energy Rating. Both present- and future-focused, the formal vernacular approach establishes the homes as durable and timeless through a simplicity and use of clean lines. Materials of muted and warming timber with textured glass, stone and exposed concrete all ensure the spaces have a wider demographic appeal and an emphasis on quality and detail over a trend-driven methodology.