Harshil Navadiya

Bachelor of Design (Architecture)

My name is Harshil Navadiya, I am a third-year architecture student. My passion towards Architecture and Design begin to develop when I first started my journey of pursuing Diploma in Architecture back in 2016 from India. After pursuing my diploma in Architecture, I was really fascinated by the exploration that this field offers, It’s something way beyond expectations. So, to dive deep further into it with newer approach, I decided to further study bachelor’s from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia to explore diverse varieties of design approach and style, as being an international student.

Throughout my journey at Swinburne, I cam across how small decision impacts the flow and its future. In addition to that, how various elements comes together collaboratively to encourage each other and results as a successful framework. Furthermore, during my past semester I got to learn the impacts that material has on our environment and to provide a solution we explored and made Bioplastic as our environmental-friendly element to our design. My overall approach to architectural designs focuses on amalgamation of materials and practicality, along with collaboration of nature to provide a better user experience.

Studio 5 - Greenline

Studio 5 - Greenline (Matthew Hill Plaza)

Studio 4 - Anchor Points (Boat Workshop)

Studio 3 - Lorimer Gardens (Innovation Center)

Studio 2 - Light Whirlpool

Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.