Coventry St Apartments

by Architects EAT

321 Coventry Street is a small multi-residential project with a commercial space on the ground floor and a penthouse terrace facing the much-loved heritage listed South Melbourne Market. The tight corner building aims to re-interpret the brick cladded warehouse buildings predominant in the area with a contemporary expression. The concept for the project centralizes around the idea of “Give and Take” – while respectfully speaking to its heritage neighbours, the new infill development does not seek to replicate the heritage built form around it; a second layer of hit and miss brickworks takes on the introverted approach to give the building residents a visual and acoustic screening to the hustle and bustle of the street.

The strong corner reflects other built form in the South Melbourne Market precinct, especially commercial built form, and reinforces the street corner in the streetscape – an urban design outcome that both we and the Council seek to achieve in the heritage precinct. Adbri Architectural Brick Ebony is chosen for its deep colour consistency, as well as its smoothness across all faces of the brick, hence the hit and miss brick screens and relief are consistent and neat.