Cong Liu

Interior Architecture

ART GALLERY SPOT

The elderly create paintings and hold small exhibitions here to provide for social needs and help alleviate the social isolation problem of the elderly. Due to the weakened vision of the elderly, indoor colours require bright colour assistance and more natural light. The yellow wavy wall features help the elderly memorise the space and wayfinding.

SOCIAL OASIS CO-LIVING

By integrating nursing-oriented senior apartments within the community centre, we blend social elements with a hotel-style approach to cater to diverse housing needs. In this project, we redefine aging, offering daily opportunities for connection, growth, and a life lived to the fullest. The environment includes a wide range of amenities, activity facilities, social spaces, and a diverse array of interest classes and events, all dedicated to addressing the challenges of social isolation and loneliness among the elderly.

COMMUNITY CENTER

Elderly people can develop new interests and hobbies through doing crafts, increasing mental activity and promoting social interaction. Indoor greenery, wooden colours and carpets are chosen to create a comfortable and secure atmosphere. Colour blocks add highlights to the space, stimulating and helping the elderly inspire creative inspiration.

CAMPUS NEST

The project is centred around shared student housing, promoting co-living experiences in communal spaces. It comprises 6 buildings, each featuring 2-bedroom residences. The main objective is to create a supportive and interactive community for students, offering an affordable and convenient housing solution.

HALLWAY

The interior uses raw wood and light apricot colours to create a relaxed and warm atmosphere. Introducing indoor green plants can alleviate students' anxiety problems. The common area and accommodation are on two floors, with an open layout to meet the social needs of students.

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.