Clarisia Khaterina Hartono

Interior Architecture

Hi, my name is Clarisia Khaterina Hartono. I am an international student born and raised in Indonesia, majoring in Interior Architecture in Swinburne University. I was never confident in my designing skills but being an interior designer has been my dream job. Picking a university was also something that I had to struggle with as I did not know what’s best for me at the time, until I found Swinburne University of Technology.

Swinburne University of Technology had taught me a lot about designing interior spaces and architectural buildings from scratch, creating a foundation to allow me to work in the field, and creating connections with lots of different people which can be beneficial for my future work.

In Swinburne, I have been taught to create and worked on a variety of projects including student accommodation, social space, museums, art galleries, and a healthcare retreat facility. Tutors and friends in Swinburne have been very helpful in helping me design the spaces as best as I can and it helped me to discover my potential in interior architecture design.

I am a hardworking, detail-oriented, and sociable person who enjoys learning about other cultures since they are so unique, and I have learnt to respect each of them. This has been the foundation I had used to create and design different styles of buildings and spaces throughout my studies.

Peace of Mind

Piece of Mind is a mental health retreat centre for teenagers who suffer from depression and anxiety, designed for my Capstone project.

Peace of Mind

The semi-open floor concept of the retreat centre includes both private and social areas. In addition, I created a therapeutic garden to enhance the customers’ general well-being, which will also help their mental health.

Peace of Mind

The retreat centre will contain a range of facilities and activities to aid clients in the physical, emotional, and visual senses as they participate in the activities as part of their route to wellbeing.

Tedzukuri Tsuchi

The purpose of this building is to host a handmade art gallery and pottery museum. This project focuses on how to apply and improve sustainability in the building, reducing the use of artificial materials and technologies, wiht the help of pivoting clay facade and glazing.

Pavilion of the Water

The huge site allows the pavilion to host a number of different spaces including public library, bazaar & food court, mini podium, and outdoor seating area. Moonee Ponds Creek, which is located right by the site, plays ahuge role on providing the inspiration for the creation of the pavilion. This is based on the shape of the pavilion which resembles the wave of the water.

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.