Sunday, September 6, 2009

Red Ochre Homes: Factory made homes in South Australia

I am pleased see a product home company in Adelaide offering something like what I'm thinking of. They sell pre-designed homes by various architects. The construction is prefabricated and modular, with design options.

An interesting product (plans above) is the next homes pavilions by Energy Architects. This one interests me because it is more of a 'house system', there is no one design, it is a catalog of options. Like a species, there are general characteristics and compositional grammar, providing abilities and constraints, infinite creations are possible.

Design is limitless but speculative - Systems come with limits but can be counted on.

Key elements to me are; -
Product/design/style presentation and options,
Marketing tacts eg. quick build time, sustainability and a substitute for 'brick construction'...,
Materiality -steel frame.


"We work with numerous independent architects to achieve diverse styles of designs, then take them through our structured product development process before releasing to market."

"Within our purpose built, quality controlled workshop facility, we prefabricate and assemble specialized floor systems, walls and roof frames into transportable modules. These are delivered to site where assembly and surfaces are finished by our highly skilled trades people."


"We use technology and innovative designs to produce building structures of equivalent durability and thermal capabilities to conventional brick homes at a fraction of the price."
images and quotes from Red Ochre Homes web site

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  2. I Have recenlty visited The Red Ochre Home In middleton and must say Go have a look ! Amazing WOW and the sales lady Kim will help with any questions, worth the visit and So affordable ,when we build our home, Red Ochre E-fusion is the choice for us ,doing our bit for the enviroment.GO SA a giant step for SA Builders

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