On the Front Line – Martha Cove by DKO
Embracing its sea-front view and positioning, Martha Cove opens generously to its surrounds, and connects visually through framed openings and apertures. DKO draw on a contemporary and linear approach in vertically optimising aspect and in proposing a home of crisp and enduring proportions.
Aligning with the water’s edge, Martha Cove is located along Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula and affords its owners multiple views from multiple vantage points, across its many levels. In its position, the home overlooks the sea, and through vertically stacking of forms, the resulting home creates visual access from within each space, connecting the home to its location and anchoring it in place. An approach of linear and regular formality inserts the home as a crisp series of elements as it engages with the natural and brings an element of contemporary urbanism into its coastal setting. In a unique response to site, DKO propose a dual fronted property, with a private and concealed entry, which then opens generously behind a veil of interlocking and cantilevering elements.
Built by Everclear Construction, Martha Cove is founded on principles of restraint, ensuring a continued lineage and relevance over time. As part of a series of newer developments, the surrounding context speaks more to its place than any reference of heritage and reinterprets an integration of the natural. Through elevated detailing and a series of integrated and supporting storage, the resulting spaces sit generously together, as they open to the surrounds. The use of a monochromatic palette both inside and out, allows more temporary elements to animate the spaces, and be changed or altered as needed, while the shell remains constant.
Oriented to its main view, a long and linear shared living zone groups the kitchen, dining and living spaces, as it opens outward. Full height glazing then opens the internals to the surrounds and allows the eye to be carried out onto the deck and embrace the elements. The kitchen plays a major role as a gathering agent and brings a series of textural materials together to engage the senses and heighten the interaction with the space. Emphasised through a lightness, the selection of finishes further illuminates with the incoming sunlight, and consequently increasing the perceived volumes internally.
The focus on a clean and linear formality becomes an appropriate response and ensures a continued relevance.
Imagined enduring, Martha Cove brings a contemporary approach to a coastal setting, ensuring DKO have conjured a home of lasting resonance.
