12 Stokes Ave by Smart Design Studio

ArchiPro Project Summary - A striking caretaker’s apartment featuring four self-supporting brick-lined catenary vaults, designed with attention to detail and low-cost materials, creating an impressive ambiance complemented by custom industrial-style furniture and fixtures.

Title:: 12 Stokes Ave
Architect:: Smart Design Studio
Category:: Residential/; New Builds

A dramatic caretaker’s apartment runs the length of the readapted induindustrial buildingt houses our new studio. This residence is made up of a series of four self-supporting brick-lined catenary vaults. Attention to detail ensures low-cost materials contribute to an impressive ambiance. The beautifully laid bricks are the hero, while all other elements such as flooring, fenestration, lighting, and joinery are simple and recessive. Most of the furniture, fixtures and fittings are custom made and complementary in their industrial character.

Photography: Romello Pereira

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Alexandria, City of Sydney, New South Wales

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Smart Design Studio. Smart Design Studio, founded in 1997, has a reputation as a multi-disciplinary design studio of excellence. With a diverse range of design projects - master-planning for new urban centres, public projects, commercial, cultural and retail spaces, multi-unit residential developments and private residences - Smart Design Studio produces buildings and interiors of elegant simplicity, a quality which unites our portfolio across differences in scale. Our studio is run with five separate teams, each with its own area of specialisation. These teams share knowledge and work together at critical stages of the design process, allowing the expertise of one team to influence the designs of others. For example, our interior design team may assist the architectural teams at sketch design stages to develop good space planning and later in the documentation stage with the selection of finishes or lighting design. Conversely, the architectural teams assist the interiors team with structural knowledge, building regulation requirements and construction techniques. And the new designs developed by our private residential team are transferred to our larger projects after they have been constructed and proven to be both effective and efficient.