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Homes 2025 Australian Home of the 12 months: Blok Three Sisters by Blok Modular X Vokes Peters. Image: Christopher Frederick Jones
In a plot twist nobody noticed coming, a crumbling childhood vacation shack has been named the 2025 Australian Home of the 12 months after a shocking transformation.
Blok Three Sisters by Blok Modular with Vokes and Peters has taken out the highest prize within the 2025 Homes Awards for its progressive method to a novel drawback – creating three jawdropping properties for a trio of sisters the place they spent their childhood summers.
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The property was designed so three sisters may nonetheless vacation of their childhood summer season escape. Image: Christopher Frederick Jones.
Prefabricated segments being transported to web site. Image: Christopher Frederick Jones.
Easy options with indoor-outdoor circulate. Image: Christopher Frederick Jones.
The imaginative and prescient behind the design and its implementation noticed it heralded as the way forward for Australian housing – representing the kind of “stealth density” required in a time of housing scarcity, turning one crumbling home into a number of designer properties.
At first look it does nonetheless seem like one home, however it’s three full properties side-by-side on North Stradbroke – every with their very own courtyards, breezeways and laid-back vibe
The properties weren’t even constructed on-site, having been prefabricated in Brisbane and shipped to the delicate island surroundings to avoid wasting time, cash and environmental impression.
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A muted color scheme all through. Image: Christopher Frederick Jones.
Every house nonetheless has privateness and but they’re all collectively as a household. Image: Christopher Frederick Jones.
The Homes Awards jury was blown away, with their quotation positively gushing over the property.
“A single seashore home in a state of disrepair has been changed with three new residences, allowing the subsequent generations of the identical household to make their very own reminiscences right here,” the quotation stated.
“Blok Three Sisters is an ingenious design that finds a compelling steadiness between pragmatism and ambition.
“The design appears to the previous to recall what makes a terrific vacation home, whereas broadening the chances of prefabrication instead development methodology that’s higher outfitted for our future.”
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Greenery throughout within the yard. Image: Christopher Frederick Jones
The design is hardy to face up to the rigours of a tropical local weather. Image: Christopher Frederick Jones.
It stated the items have been organized side-by-side, with a easy flip within the plan of 1 unit reaching refined variation within the facade, “gently disguising its modularity”.
“Australia wants extra exemplars of stealth density that exhibit how our freestanding residences would possibly step by step evolve to accommodate extra dwellings, with out sacrifice to particular person or neighbourhood amenity,” the jury quotation stated.
“The jury felt this terrace-like, modular design was not solely a profitable response to this laid-back coastal setting, but in addition a worthy and replicable mannequin for co-living that might be readily tailored to websites in city and suburban settings.”
