Tag: prefab
The La Trobe Tower by Rothelowman is Australia’s tallest prefabricated high-rise structure, but the construction methods behind it is also breaking records.
"There is no way that any company that we know of could do what we did, and now there are 1200 people who are safe from the next cyclone," says Nev Hyman. After years of surfing the world's waters, Hyman collaborated with Ken McBride of HASSELL to create cyclone-proof prefab homes for remote villages, constructed from recycled waste plastic.
An innovative proposal for a prefabricated shopping centre - designed to be “screwed, not glued” together and reassembled elsewhere - won the top prize at last night's International Brickworks Living Building Challenge design competition, held at the Melbourne School of Design.
Dispelling the connotations of bland standardisation that prefab conjures, La Sagrada Família is a potent symbol that even the most intricately detailed and iconic architecture can be produced offsite.
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