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Keep House / BKK Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 02:00:00 +0000

Keep House is where a couple lives, work from home, and raises their two teenagers. Their corner block is a wedge shape, its rounded edge facing a park across the street, its back garden culminating in a triangle. The block is elevated from the street, placing it on view all along its extensive street frontage and from the park. They needed a house that would connect the parkland and garden to the family, yet guard their privacy on the inherently visible site.

Cirqua Apartments / BKK Architects

Lauren Crockett — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 07:00:00 +0000

Described by BKK Architects as a contemporary reinterpretation of “local, historical housing types,” Cirqua Apartments weave new and obscure formal elements into an established residential neighbourhood in suburban Melbourne, playing on the familiarity of the single-home dwellings ingrained in the the collective memory.

Split House / BKK Architects

Lauren Crockett — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 20:00:00 +0000

Set within a relatively recent subdivision upon the side of Mt Martha, the Split House negotiates a complex range of conditions typical of emerging coastal developments. New houses for ‘downsizers’ in a suburban mode, paved driveways and letterboxes prevail, vying for the expansive views to Port Philip Bay, and backed by the relatively wild, coastal woodland of Mt Martha Public Park. Construction works are ongoing in the area; completed houses with gardens at varying stages of maturity are punctuated by empty lots cleared of all vegetation.

Geelong Truckstop / BKK Architects

Cristian Aguilar — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 16:00:00 +0000

It is estimated that driver fatigue is a factor in 20% of deaths on Victoria’s roads each year. In response to this VicRoads has developed a Victorian Rest Area Strategy which aims to reduce fatigue-related incidents by taking a holistic, strategic approach to the provision of rest areas across Victoria’s major roads. A key objective of this strategy is to provide interesting and engaging architecture to encourage drivers to stop and recuperate - to create places of interest beyond their utilitarian functions, with areas for people to eat and for children to play.

Doll's House / BKK Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:00:00 +0000

Dolls House is an idea about providing flexible, highly sustainable living that is responsive to its context and able to adapt to the changing needs of a family over a long life-span. The first known Doll’s house, originally called a ‘baby house’ in 1557 was a showcase for local creatives and craftspeople to display their wares.

Holiday House / BKK Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Set within coastal vegetation, on an elevated site on the Mornington Peninsula, the Holiday House presents a low slung, non-descript street presence. The site is accessed via an unsealed road from which adjacent properties are generally set back behind a natural green buffer, lending the surrounds a distinctly informal character.

Australian Garden Shelters / BKK Architects

Cristian Aguilar — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 01:00:00 +0000

The Australia Gardens Shelters were an opportunity to engage with one of the nation’s most unique landscape projects. This is Australia's only botanical gardens to feature solely Australian native plants. Rather than present a collection of plantings in a ‘museum’ type setting, the landscape is designed, reinterpreted and presented under a conceptual framework that is posed as a transition from the relatively unoccupied interior to the more constructed coastlines. In contrast to most Architectural commissions, the architecture responds directly to the landscape context both conceptually and physically. In fact, the landscape was most completed when the architectural process began. The designs for the structures explore notions of what shelter is and the history of shelter from its most primitive forms to the more contemporary vernacular. 5 shelters were commissioned and three completed this initial phase.

Lonsdale Street Dandenong / BKK Architects

Javier Gaete — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Lonsdale Street in central Dandenong is the first key infrastructure project delivered as part of the State Government’s Revitalising Central Dandenong (RCD) Initiative. The RCD Initiative seeks to restore central Dandenong as the capital of Melbourne’s south east and bring new energy, activity and amenity to the heart of this richly diverse urban centre.

Hi-pod / BKK Architects +

Sebastian Jordana — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This project consists of a new facade element inserted into an existing 13 storey, public housing tower in Melbourne’s inner city. Effectively a residential extension, albeit elevated three storey’s above the ground, the project employs standard construction methodologies and relatively small gestures to big effect.

Enclave House / BKK Architects

Javier Gaete — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This project has been undertaken for a couple and their children of varying ages. It includes alterations to an existing Edwardian House and a new separate studio to the rear of the site.

Boundary House / BKK Architects

Javier Gaete — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The placement of the existing residence on the site presented a number of difficult challenges. The central placement of the house created awkward residual spaces whilst the orientation of the site was problematic as main living spaces faced south, devoid of direct sunlight.

Twofold House / BKK Architects

Javier Gaete — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

For this project we were approached by a developer client to design a pair of 4-bedroom luxury townhouses. We were interested in addressing issues of containment and scale while providing the highest living amenity.

Great Wall of Warburton / BKK Architects

Andrew Rosenberg — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

On an elevated site set amongst native bushland with rolling hills to the north, the Great Wall of Warburton withholds views upon approach, presenting a mute block wall embedded into the site. This wall further explores our interest in how a line drawn becomes a wall that acts to claim space or mark territory. At this point you are still denied the view. Passing through this wall via the compressed point of entry, the panorama is suddenly revealed to the viewer; and further heightened by the dramatic angled ceiling. The interior face of the wall acts as a constant, omnipresent anchoring device as you move through the house. It is visible from every space. Each space unfolds from one to the other as the wall shifts in plan. This unfolding of space is subtle and yet dramatic as you journey through the house.

Calder Woodburn Rest Area / BKK Architects

Andrew Rosenberg — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The Roadside Service Station

Beached House / BKK Architects

Andrew Rosenberg — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The recurring ritual that plays out in the journey to the holiday home is integral to the conception of this house: the car and its contained interior; the stop off for provisions in the last town before arrival; getting out and unchaining the entry gate before driving onto the site; the wall that confronts them, the view denied; the welcoming gesture of the front portal wedge; and the final release to the view as one enters the main living spaces.