Project Overview
Nature + science in harmony
A façade as a climate interface
St Kilda Residence sits with a quiet confidence. Solid, grounded, and softened by landscape. At the perimeter, the façade becomes an environmental instrument:planting filters and cools, mass absorbs, and external shading intercepts solar energy before it crosses the glass line. Together, these layers create comfort without losing architectural clarity.
ev80 performance: heat, daylight, glare, privacy
The ev80 system uses 80mm rolled-edge C-shaped slats, engineered for precise, incremental positioning across a 160°operating range. This enables targeted solar interception with nuanced daylight control – reducing heat gain, trimming low-angle glare, and shaping privacy as a gradient rather than a binary condition.
Technical Focus
Engineering for real conditions
Guidance options allow the system to suit façade intent and exposure: wire-guided solutions for minimal visual interruption, or side-channel guidance with pins where stability, refined movement and resonance control are priorities. Early coordination with structure, reveals and junction details ensures performance reads as architecture.
Specification cues
- Slats: 80mm rolled-edge C-shaped profile
- Operation: 160° slat rotation range
- Performance intent: external solar interception to reduce heat gain and glare while maintaining usable daylight
- Guidance: wire-guided or side-channel with pins (select based on exposure and façade detailing)
privacy; the façade reads as a continuous
horizontal texture.
controlled – comfort achieved through geometry
rather than opacity.
Facade Sequence
A façade that behaves like a landscape
Like a canopy, the external venetians modulate rather than block-filtering sun, preserving outlook, and keeping interiors luminous. The result is a calm façade language outside and an even, usable daylight condition within.
Photography: Timothy Kaye (timothykaye.com)