Tobias Horrocks runs architecture and design practice Fold Theory, and teaches architectural design, history and theory at the University of Melbourne. He has an abiding interest in environmental sustainability.
Tobias Horrocks's Latest contributions
Taroona House by Candour and Archier
A refined modernist aesthetic and speedy design come together in this prefabrication system aimed at producing better buildings for more people.
Blok Belongil by Blok Modular with Vokes and Peters
Blok Belongil, Blok Modular’s collaboration with architecture practice Vokes and Peters, is built on the edge of the sand dunes at Belongil Beach, Byron Bay. In response to rising sea levels, the council forbids construction here unless the building can be demounted and moved within a certain time frame.
OM1 and Mobile Studio by Dimensions X
With traditional construction methods beset by time and cost uncertainties, the time is ripe to explore alternatives. This prefabricated house is assembled in just three weeks.
Placidus Student Welfare Spaces for Marcellin College
Branch Studio Architects and Marcellin College seek to enhance student wellbeing through a series of empathetic interiors that re-interpret the Marist Brothers’ Catholic tradition.
Stumpy Gully House by Markowitz Design with Stavrias Architecture
Seemingly effortless yet upheld by unwavering structural logic, this understated new home invites easygoing living, like the simple beach shacks that inspired it.
Elegantly simple: Court House by Archier
In a gold rush town in north-east Victoria, a new home on a prominent site refuses to defer to the colonial past, demonstrating an alternative, unapologetically contemporary way of responding to the landscape.
Cocoon with a view: Palmette
Ornate Victorian-era scroll motifs give way to folded planes of Victorian ash in this Carlton home by Sum, where the decision to have fewer bedrooms has contributed to a spacious, calm environment for living.
Revisited: Fisher House
In the bushy Melbourne suburb of Warrandyte, the modular design of Alistair Knox’s Fisher House (1970) has been sensitively updated to retain its celebration of the unique Australian light and the surrounding “sun-evolved” landscape.
Raw beauty: Block House
Inspired by the raw, expressive quality of classic brutalist architecture, this Melbourne home draws on the once gritty and industrial character of its neighbourhood to create a calming, cave-like oasis.
‘A gift to the neighbourhood’: Milkbar House
In inner-suburban Melbourne, the built legacy of a former milk bar has been transformed into a calm family home in which spaces are zoned for practicality and for mood.