Traven Lam

I'm a Graduate architect with a focus on sustainability and usage of curves as a design language. My academic journey how I have improved and evolved as a designer through each milestone project. I am eager to design for more medium- to high-density projects in the future and to bring innovative ideas from my time dedicated to my studies.

Year 2 Construction 2 Building Services and Document packaging

These represent how the sustainable homes made from steel framings as well as the many components used to ensure the structural integrity of these homes.

Waterfront placemaking Apartment and commercial complex in docklands Studio 4

These two building are split into two different building one for apartments the other focused on commercial stores and a gym. Both buildings are angled in a way that creates the best angle for Docklands. There's a bridge that connects these two buildings together. On the facade, there is this black and white triangular facade that can collect water as well as generate electricity for the building this allows the building to become more sustainable.

Luminex Studio 5 Bringing light to Newport

This building focuses on the aspect of light and how it can turn the quiet suburb of Newport to a bustling night life with a light park market space while also having a light museum focusing on the history of light and how light can be used in many ways.

Fit out plans for the AMDC Design Proposal BIM Year 3 Semester 2

This fit out plan focuses on the aspect of having a bookstore that is connected to a library downstairs in level 7. This building has downlights to illuminate a supplies store for architecture students of Swinburne. It uses a clear translucent form of material small holes to create an expressive unique learning environment for the people present in the building.

Circulation Model for the AMDC Design Proposal BIM Year 3 Semester 2

Here is a model that aims to present the floors 5-9 of the AMDC that were reimagined to fit the current needs of the students of Swinburne. There is also a void present in the building for each floor, having a bridge on each side of the building. This allows for a more unique circulation of the building while creating a sustainable and innovative building. Below is a link to my Instagram that shows a video of this building.

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.