Vitrosca: Studio director Steve Rhodes on the Joe Adsett Architecture design philosophy

“That's the reason why I'm in architecture ... We get the ability to touch clients' lives.”

Between the angles and concrete curves of the Cliffhanger House in Redwood, near Toowoomba in Queensland, the light falls just so. Sunlight beams across the Great Dividing Range first, before bringing the dramatic home – built with a 6.5-metre concrete cantilever, replete with floor-to-ceiling Vitrocsa glazing along the eastern facade – to life. For Steve Rhodes, the studio director at Joe Adsett Architects (the architects of the impressive structure), the resulting view is unparalleled.

“The view was the priority,” he says. “Vitrocsa allowed us to explore the view in large format glass panels, maximising unobstructed transparency to the outdoors. Everything was about the view and so everything became about the Vitrocsa doors and what they enabled us to do, from every aspect of the house, from every internal space.”

The success of that pursuit resulted in “just absolute wow factor” for the homeowners, says Rhodes.

Rhodes sees that reaction with many Joe Adsett clients, from the Riviera project in Palm Beach, Queensland, which features sweeping views of the beach by aid of Vitrocsa Sliding and Pivot doors, to the new Kanagawa project on Miami Beach on Queensland’s Gold Coast, which is currently under construction.

He’s been at the practice since early 2021, after his “kind of non-typical career path” took him from “fairly large-scale projects” in South Africa, England, Scotland and the United States, to 20 years of work in Australia, including with Arkhefield, S3 Architects and Tim Stewart Architects – the last where he first utilised the Vitrocsa system. At Joe Adsett, Rhodes says, he is offered an incredible privilege every day..

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