Whether you call them portables, demountables or relocatable classrooms, the temporary fix for expanding schools in times gone by has left a legacy of sad and sorry structures throughout Australia. Bearing little resemblance to the 21st century education settings we aspire to offer our children, the classrooms often fill parents with memories of freezing winters, boiling summers and weaving through cramped, monotone spaces. Indeed, many portables have been in schools for over twenty years – well beyond their life expectancy [...]

As the largest prefabricated display suite in Victoria, the Windermere display suite in Mambourin succeeds on making an ambitious statement. Property developers, Country Garden, engaged Modscape and DKO Architecture to design and construct a sales gallery that would reflect the design intent, ideals, vision and over-arching scale of the future development. The result is the largest prefabricated sales gallery in Victoria – boasting over 500 square metres of space and 5.5 metre high ceilings. The 24 modules were constructed off-site [...]

Tucked neatly behind a weatherboard house in Melbourne’s leafy north-east sits a two-storey modular extension that is bold yet refined and has transformed the way the clients live. In need of extra space for their growing family the clients decided to employ a modular solution and extend their home rather than move. The extension is open, filled with natural light and beautifully compliments its leafy suburban location. A new double-height entrance space has been created in the middle of the [...]