OM1 AND MOBILE STUDIO
by Dimensions X
Entrepreneur Oscar Martin’s transition from co-founding a pop-culture news website to co-founding a prefabricated housing company with Peter Stutchbury Architecture was sparked by his experiences on the building site. After selling Pedestrian.tv to the Nine Network, he wanted to do something with his hands, so he enrolled in a diploma of building.
He experienced first-hand the waste, cost and time issues that hinder traditional construction. “It was a bit of a light-bulb moment when the prefabricated wall panels arrived and suddenly it looked like a house,” he recalls. “Why isn’t everything arriving like that, pre-done?” he wondered. He put that question to Peter Stutchbury after commissioning his practice to design him a house. He recalls Peter saying that prefab had been tried before, but that Australia is not flat and architecture needs to respond to site.
Inspired by the untapped potential of Peter Stutchbury Architecture’s 2004 Cardboard
