The Pocket in Perth, Western Australian Development, Apartment Building, Architecture Images
The Pocket in Perth
Contemporary Housing Development in Western Australia ? design by Cameron Chisholm Nicol
20 Nov 2017
The Pocket
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Architects: Cameron Chisholm Nicol
The Pocket

The Pocket is the first completed development at Claremont on the Park, a new residential precinct created around the Claremont football oval. The Pocket brings together many of the design principles our practice has developed over the last five years into a well-resolved and highly functional apartment complex.

The Pocket features 95 apartments across 5 and 6 storeys, and offers a diversity of apartment types in one-, two- and three- bedroom configurations to accommodate different lifestyles and budgets.
A vertical village built around a central communal courtyard, the focus is on amenity. The Pocket is positioned in direct proximity to transport, shopping, entertainment, and sport and recreation facilities. This reduced the need for on-site facilities that would generate higher construction and operational costs, and reduces reliance on cars. For retirees in particular, these factors are highly desirable.

The design evokes a distinctly Claremont character, drawing cues from the limestone, terracotta and weatherboard buildings in the adjacent train station precinct. The subtly-raised ground floor balances privacy with surveillance of the public realm. Upper floor ap...