Sokvattana Chhun

Bachelor of Design (Architecture)

Lovely to make your acquaintance, I’m Tana, I'm a passionate creative who values all design work down to it's little detail. I adore creating aesthetically pleasing visualization of every project I embark on but especially solving issues through the built environment to serve the community. Throughout my journey at Swinburne, I've picked up many skills and learnt from many great voices from my peers to my tutor and I believe I've built myself up to be ready for all my challenges ahead.

ARC20001_Villa Verde Olive Guest House

Villa Verde is design specifically to respond to the problem that newer generations face which is the disconnect to the matriarch of the family. We want to find a way for family members to reconnect with the matron figure and that was through the size of this building, specifically to accommodate a big and open walk way with visuals to match through the use of arch-way columns.

ARC30001_The Wandering

A view of the semi-underwater courtyard for people to relax and view the conditions of the water along with allowing researchers to view flora and fauna or observe conditions.

ARC30001_The Wandering

In collaboration with Ben Mathias & Angus Baddley-Thompson. The Wandering envisions a student accommodation along the North Wharf Strip that engages in education with the surrounding water. It aims to provide a space that would attract students with amenities that will satisfy their needs and a comfortable living space, while also attracting other people to the site through having a marine viewing area, engaging with processes of water rejuvenation of the site and on-site laboratory for new innovations in the site’s renewal.

ARC30004_Reaching Out

In collaboration with Anthony Kalidoudis & Geneva Bates. Reaching Out is a refurbishment plan of the AMDC building retrofitted to improve student's mental health, foster a sense of collaboration and greening a vertical structure. The facade was redone to maximize the views and in turn also reshape the interior challenging the look of a traditional classroom.

ARC30002_The Vestige

The Vestige envisions a railway museum that can revitalise the culture of the surrounding Newport area of Melbourne, Victoria. Proposed to be a central creative hub, it’s a marriage between the industrial and the modern with the use of brick, carbon metal and the use of the arch language on the bottom half of the building transitioning to a modern look of the same material on the top half. The main feature of the museum is the leveled train ramp displaying all the items with a big central covered courtyard filled with greenery.

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.