Morwell TAFE Learning Facility, HECTC Victoria Real Estate Building, Australian Architecture Photos
TAFE Early Learning Facility in Morwell, Victoria
4 May 2021
Morwell TAFE Early Learning Facility, Victoria
Architects: GHD Woodhead
Location: Health and Early Childhood Training Centre (HECTC), Morwell, Victoria, Australia

Less than 12 months after its inception, Morwell TAFE?s new learning facility was being enjoyed by students thanks to the modular building techniques utilised in its construction.

The two-storey, purpose-built Health and Early Childhood Training Centre (HECTC) accommodates nursing, allied health, individual support and early childhood education and care, along with specialised nursing and individual support labs, specialised early childhood learning spaces and general-purpose classrooms ? sectors all catered to local job demands.
With architecture by GHDWoodhead, the building was constructed by Modscape in its Brooklyn factory over a short 12-week period, before being installed to site and ready for occupation only weeks later.

The HECTC facility forms a gateway to the Morwell campus with a defined, angular aesthetic, aptly clad in Colourbond Monument Spandeck. Full-height windows connect the inside and out, and triangular metal sunshades run vertically along the second storey, enhancing passive design principles while teaming with the building?s angular motif. The shape and proportion of both levels of the building also follow those of the golden rec...