About
Paxton Architecture is a Melbourne-based practice specialising in Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), creating smart, efficient, and sustainable buildings through advanced design and offsite manufacturing. We work across residential, commercial, civic, and educational sectors, creating smart, efficient, and sustainable buildings through close collaboration with clients, manufacturers, and consultant teams. Our designs integrate advanced manufacturing, offsite construction, and assembly processes from the earliest stages, ensuring each project is optimised for speed, quality, and cost efficiency.
With more than 20 years of experience, Fraser is a recognised specialist architect in MMC, Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA), and prefabrication. He has extensive knowledge of timber-framed composite wall panels and has designed, manufactured, and overseen the installation of prefabricated buildings across multiple sectors between Australia and New Zealand. His expertise spans panelised, volumetric, and component-based systems, backed by research and international study of leading prefabrication companies in Sweden and Japan. Fraser’s approach optimises buildings for efficient production, transport, and assembly, driving innovation towards faster, more sustainable construction.
PUBLICATIONS
Moving assembly line for low-cost mass customised homes. Fraser Paxton, Lu Aye & Felix Hui
Australian Research Council Centre for Advanced Manufacturing of Prefabricated Housing, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia.
Moving assembly line for low cost mass customised homes (unimelb.edu.au)
A minimum viable product design of volumetric building modules. Fraser Paxton, Jen Vu, Felix Hui & Lu Aye. Australian Research Council Centre for Advanced Manufacturing of Prefabricated Housing, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia.
A minimum viable product design of volumetric building modules (unimelb.edu.au)
Lean manufacturing’s inroads into construction. Built Offsite Magazine. Fraser Paxton & Tuan Ngo. Lean manufacturing’s inroads into construction - built offsite
The Art of Mass Customisation. Built Offsite Magazine. Fraser Paxton & Tuan Ngo. The Art of Mass Customisation - Built Offsite
Prefabrication in Japan. Built Offsite Magazine. Fraser Paxton. Japanese tales - Built Offsite
The Age Newspaper. Jenny Brown. How an extension warped a holiday house (domain.com.au)
Built Offsite Architects and Prefab: Link to forum discussion here
Topography: a collection of work (Book) Contributor, Richard Black & Martyn Hook, Published 2004 RMIT Press.
Mobile Landscapes. (Book) Contributor, Richard Black, Published 2007. RMIT Press.
Platform (Book). Contributor, Melanie Dodd. Published 2006. RMIT Press.
STUDY TOURS
ZEMCH Zero Energy Mass Custom Housing – Japanese Housing Tour 2017. Tour of Japanese prefabricated housing manufacturers, including Sekisui House, Daiwa Home, Sekisui Heim, Tokyo University
PrefabAus Sweden Study Tour 2017. Study Tour of Swedish Prefabricated Housing Manufactuers, including Ikea Boklok, Eksjohus, Myresjohus, Husknuten, Randek Factory.
COMPETITIONS
Flinders Street Station Redevelopment International Design Competition. Paxton Architecture submitted a proposal for the Victorian Government's design competition to re-imagine Flinders Street Railway station.
EXHIBITIONS
International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2003: Mobility - A Room with a View. https://www.iabr.nl/en/editie/mobility-a-room-with-a-view