HMM Residence
Main Ridge, Victoria
2022 -
HMM Residence is a contemporary rural homestead in Main Ridge on the Mornington Peninsula, designed to age with a growing family. Positioned on a sloping site, the home is conceived to be largely concealed by generous setbacks and heavily vegetated boundaries, allowing the architecture to sit quietly within its landscape rather than declare itself to it. Materials are selected for durability in coastal conditions and for the way they weather, so the building becomes more grounded and familiar over time.
The project begins with shelter. Depth, shadow, and borrowed light are treated as primary design tools. Rather than relying on openness everywhere, the house is calibrated: protected where it needs to be, released where it can be, and composed so the interior experience feels steady across different seasons and modes of occupation.
Thresholds are thickened. Light is admitted with restraint so it can read clearly and atmospherically, rather than flattening the interiors with glare. The intent is a lived richness that comes from proportion and sequence, not from surface complexity.
Project Architect: Ben Schmideg
3D Visualisations by Klaudia Adamiak
This is a home that values coherence. View-lines are framed.
Related Editorial: Warm Minimalism Is Not Absence, The Thick Wall, Atmosphere as the Vessel for Life.
