Split House Mt Martha

Set within a subdivision upon the side of Mt Martha on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, the Split House negotiates a complex range of conditions typical of emerging coastal developments.

Designed by BKK Architects, the Split House provides a range of relationships to its site and the broader territory that balances the owners’ desire for privacy and engagement with their surrounds. The house comprises 2 relatively simple volumes linked by a splayed stair that also acts as a seating area for people to gather, listen to music, sit in the sun. Occupying separate levels that follow the natural contours of the site, the 2 pavilions provide a separation between the upper, main living/master bedroom zone and rumpus room/guest bedrooms below.

At its inception the landscape and spaces in-between the house were conceived as of equal importance as the building itself; screens and finely detailed pergola elements provide sheltered zones around the house that reveal themselves as a sequence of distinct spaces with varying qualities of light and shadow.

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

Mt Martha house / BKK

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