Port Melbourne Townhouses
2022
Multi-Residential
Port Melbourne, VIC
Adele Bates
Timothy Kaye
2023 LOOP Design Awards - Winner of Citation Awards in Multi Unit Housing
2023 Houzee award by Architecture Collection Gold Winner
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Only moments from one of Melbourne's famous beaches, the Port Melbourne Townhouses comprises of 6 size family-sized townhouses with shared parking on the basement level.
The driving principle behind this development is to inject density to the site. The architectural language in parallel to this driving principle is to develop a built-form response that is sophisticated in design, modern and in juxtaposing contrast with the surroundings to both evoke a landmark effect and to avoid adopting the built-form approach of watered-down imitation of heritage.
The townhouses are organised across 3 storeys, capped-off by individual terraces on the roof level. To mitigate the physical attributes of a 3 storey structure, a layering effect is adopted in the form of a metal screen veil shrouding the corner frontage. Articulation in the form of battens spacing and length delivers an illusion of a double storey structure in lieu of 3. Further, the third level is also set back from the boundary behind the screens to achieve a less confronting or intimidating scale of the built form.