Blok Three Sisters is a trio of identical holiday homes built for siblings

Prefabrication specialist Blok Modular has labored with Australian structure studio Vokes and Peters to create Blok Three Sisters, a trio of prefabricated vacation houses on North Stradbroke Island in Queensland.

The row of homes was designed by Vokes and Peters for 3 sisters who spent childhood holidays on the location close to Brisbane, and needed to proceed these shared holidays with their very own prolonged households.

Blok Three Sisters was prefabricated in Blok Modular’s Brisbane manufacturing facility earlier than being craned onto the location and assembled by a neighborhood builder.

The undertaking has been longlisted within the housing class of Dezeen Awards 2025.

Every home has an equivalent structure. To accommodate every household as they age and in addition comfortably host older family members, the bottom ground of every one can function as a standalone step-free residence.

A entrance bed room in every house is separated from the rear social areas by a small courtyard backyard with a small timber deck.

“Individually, the homes are designed with agility and suppleness in thoughts, in anticipation of the adapting and evolving family inhabitants and calls for on them to accommodate change in household dynamics,” mentioned Vokes and Peters.

“As buildings, the terrace homes change into repositories of shared vacation reminiscences and file household life and the passing of time,” it added.

On the primary ground of the houses, two extra bedrooms are positioned alongside a skylit rest room. Certainly one of these bedrooms overlooks the central courtyard, whereas the opposite seems out to the road by way of a big window.

For privateness, the entrance facades have high-level home windows and are lined with screens of white timber planks. These screens incorporate sliding doorways that open into porches.

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On the rear of the location, every house opens right into a double-height portico set inside a deep opening lined in white fibre-cement panels and decked with timber.

These porches supply a sheltered and personal area to look throughout a shared backyard hugged by massive timber, which every house can entry through a set of huge timber steps.

The eating and kitchen areas of Blok Three Sisters open onto this portico and backyard by way of full-height sliding glass doorways, whereas above, an elevated dwelling space options sliding home windows that supply a vantage throughout the Pacific Ocean.

“As an archetypal spatial system, the backyard gathers the sensory delights of the setting alongside day-to-day home rituals,” mentioned the studio.

“The style of the salty onshore breeze, the readability of moonlight on the fibro, the echo of the crashing waves, the scent of native jasmine, the restorative feeling of deep shade in summer time,” it added.

Different prefabricated housing initiatives lately featured on Dezeen embrace SuperBungalows on Marathon in Los Angeles by SuperLA, a block of 9 flats comprised of mass timber, and a Norwegian home by Workplace Inainn that’s modelled on slate.

The images is by Christopher Frederick Jones.