Sarah Maloyan

Bachelor of Design (Architecture)

Hi, my name is Sarah Maloyan. I am a third year Bachelor of Design (Architecture) student at Swinburne University of Technology, and I have recently completed my first internship at Little Wonder Design.

I am passionate about being involved in projects that leave a positive social impact and I am eager to develop my skills to contribute to projects that are not only aesthetically engaging but also purposeful, functional, and sustainable.

Pathways Museum | Architectural Design Studio 5

Mixed-use development combining an immigration museum with programs fostering education and community connection as Williamstown precinct gentrifies. |
Group Project by Alexia Christopoulos and Sarah Maloyan

Pathways Museum | Architectural Design Studio 5

RivuLore | Architectural Design Studio 4

A hybrid mixed-use development where experience, knowledge, and stories are shared and gained through an interaction with the Yarra River, designed to provide student accommodation along with public library and study spaces. |
Group Project by Alexia Christopoulos and Sarah Maloyan

Professional Practice 1: BIM (Building Information Management)

Redeveloping Swinburne's Advance Manufacturing and Design Centre (AMDC) and focusing on the idea of creating safe and secure spaces for students and staff not only to foster social interaction but to also help them express their emotions while prioritising their privacy and comfort. |
Group Project by: Bushra Al-Asfoor, Alexia Christopoulos, Natarin Jamsai, and Sarah Maloyan

Yoga House | Architectural Design Studio 2

A guest house located in the Latvian bog which is surrounded by forest, designed to offer a welcoming, tranquil, and unobstructed space allowing the guests to relax and practice yoga in harmony with the nature. |
Group Project by Alexia Christopoulos and Sarah Maloyan

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.