Cheap, dull, unattractive and unpleasant spaces – that’s the reputation of school ‘relocatables’. Chris Bosse, Asia Pacific director of LAVA says: ‘we wanted to turn this idea upside down and create spaces that are sustainable, practical, cost effective whilst fun and exciting to be in’. The sustainable design includes a modular façade system that is manually operable, flexible for light and shade, enclosed space or open space, bringing the outside in or the inside out. Using eco-materials it is low cost, low carbon, with off-site prefabrication allowing responsive assembly, with small lightweight, easily transportable modular elements.

LAVA`s school relocatable is a learning space for the future. The classroom for 21st century learning is sustainable, integrates with the landscape, connects with the school environment, and is suitable for prefabrication and mass customisation.

Relocatables are the decades old solution to changing demographics, remote community needs, and natural disasters. Unsightly, they are perceived as cheap and unpleasant spaces.
This idea is upturned with spaces that are sustainable, practical, cost effective whilst making learning fun and exciting.

Sustainable design includes prefabrication, eco-materials, symmetrical repeatable geometry, and small lightweight easily transportable modular elements. The modular façade system is manually operable, flexible for light and shade, enclosed space or open space, bringing the outside in or the inside out. Mass customisation is low cost, low carbon, with off-site prefabrication allowing responsive assembly, and adapts to varied climates, unusual configurations and topographies.

The ‘three axis’ geometry design allows interlocking of various configurations to adapt to changing class sizes, learning clusters and future learning methods.
This cellular space for learning strengthens the connection between mankind, nature and technology.

The design received a ‘Jury Special Mention’ in the Australian Future Proofing School competition and was on show in December 2011 at the Wunderlich Gallery, University of Melbourne.

ARCHITECT: Laboratory for Visionary Architecture [LAVA], , Stuttgart – Sydney – Shanghai. CLIENT: Future Proofing School. DESIGN: LAVA – Chris Bosse, Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck. LOCATION: Australia. DESCRIPTION: Education. STATUS: Competition entry – commendation. AREA: 60-180 sq m each. DATE: 2011. No part of this web site may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of Morfae and the copyright owner.