INDESIGN X DKO

Just eight kilometres from Melbourne’s CBD, 100 Albert Street is a new collection of eight designer homes in the up and coming suburb of Preston. The spacious one-bedroom apartments and two- and three-bedroom townhouses have been designed by DKO to offer unparalleled modern style with generous dimensions, quality fixtures and finishes, within a contemporary aesthetic and secure environment.

Driven by the pressure of modern housing affordability in Melbourne city limits, DKO’s design here responds to the challenge of offering affordable and attainable housing without sacrificing architectural flair.

Traditionally, a site of 840 sqm size would see 3 generic townhouses built, yet DKO increased this density by almost 3-fold to 8 dwellings, mixing one, two and three bedroom designs. The spaces have been arranged to recall the traditional layout of 3 dwellings in their appearance, in a clever design sleight of hand to mitigate the perception of the density from the outside.

Familiar elements such as bricks, weatherboarding, pitched roofs and paling fences recall a classic suburban landscape, yet are abstracted and employed in contemporary ways to blend the eight homes into the modern residential context.

At Albert Street, DKO has delivered eight homes that are rich in space and materials, responding to the local landscape and not compromising on quality. The hybrid proposition is an admirable one, and something that other sites could see duplicated and replicated to better provide considered outcomes at attainable levels.