Master Plan: Modern family forever home

This L-shaped family home is designed around the family’s favourite areas — the pool and outdoor entertaining area.

The house was designed by mckimm, a Melbourne residential design practice, for the the firm’s founder Nick McKimm. In this video, Nick gives us a detailed tour of the stunning Brighton home, and explains some of its innovative design features.

He says that an important element of the design was featuring “introspective” architecture, creating their own views and zones.

Plus, Nick insists that ‘flow’ is vital to this house, “the aim was to create areas that were well-zoned and enhance the connection between internal and external spaces.” To do this, every room has a view out onto the pool so that there’s a sense of connectivity between rooms.

This connectivity was another integral part of the design — making choices such as having the barbecue in a central spot in the outdoor entertaining area, rather than in the corner.

And as for materials, Nick says they used “honest” materials, including lots of concrete, timber and steel. These are durable materials that will withstand the test of time, and that require minimal up-keep. Plus, the concrete is textured and patterned in different areas of the house, to create variety and visual interest.

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[harperwelch]

I like how a rather large footprint is broken up into rectilinear forms that reduce the apparent mass of the building. Looks like lots of space in every room, nothing’s crowded. Very elegant street front facade. Quite an achievement.

[debroyprasenjit]

Love the design ethos and open floor plan.
20 August 2021

[crowntextures]

I would expect his house to rock! owner of Mchimm

[shakey]

Beautiful .... What's the size of the plot?