Harbour Frankston is located at the edge where urban life meets the ocean. The 12-storey development is situated within Nepean Highway and Kananook Creek boulevard in a setting that mixture of small density housing and mid-rise developments are providing a unique opportunity for growth and development of a different urban language. With these two major roads presented at the site, the development aims to utilize the existing potentials of the site such as: lack of dining and retail options, as well as the proximity to the ocean as an integrated response to engage with wider generations of dwellers who are seeking a calm, peaceful and dynamic environment.
The proposal consists of 3 levels of basement including building assets, parking, and workshops, 2 levels of restaurant, café, wellness centre and apartment arrival lobby, 11 levels of apartments and one level of rooftop consisting of wellness, pool and social amenities. These three groups of Retail, Apartment and leisure/entertainment are set accordingly from bottom to top to attract people of different age groups for a variety of activities, thus activating and bringing forward the dynamism that different lifestyles bring together.
Located on a compact site, the building stands as an amalgamation of curved slabs providing a dynamic feature as a response to its natural setting. In addition, the stepping of the façade is an endeavour to provide at least 70% of the apartments with the prominent view of the ocean and the shore located at north, north-west and south-west of the site. This importance has been met by a unique layering and planning of the apartments so that the stepping could be conceived as a natural attempt of the form to provide openings and views in a homogeneous order.
At the podium level, the permeability of canopies brings light and texture of the overall geometry from tower down to the urban scale and provide the reading of the form to be consistent among all levels, thus avoiding, formally, separation of podium and tower. This feature is, then, accentuated through the use of native landscaping that drapes over the hollow sections of the canopies, which helps bringing light to podium level and perceiving the overall object as one piece from urban point of view. The playfulness of curvaceous slabs along with the stepping of the façade provide terraces with flexibility of a wide range of activities, as well as having controlled privacy where the separation of inter tenancy occurs.
