Hai Nam Tran

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As an Interior Architecture student, I am motivated by an interest in sustainable living, spatial quality, and how design can positively shape the everyday experiences of its users. My work focuses on creating contemporary residential and community environments that balance functionality, material integrity and atmospheric character. I approach each project through a combination of conceptual exploration and technical resolution, ensuring that ideas are not only visually compelling but also grounded in practicality and long-term performance.

I work confidently across spatial planning, digital modelling, diagramming and visual communication, which enables me to translate early concepts into coherent and refined architectural outcomes. Beyond technical skills, I value clarity, precision and collaborative engagement. These qualities support my ability to respond thoughtfully to critique, refine details with intention, and maintain strong design logic throughout each stage of development.

Across my studio work, I explore themes such as biophilic design, adaptive reuse, community connection and the integration of sustainable strategies into everyday living environments. I aim to create spaces that are responsive to context, considerate of environmental impact and meaningful to the people who inhabit them. Through continuous refinement of both conceptual and technical skills, I strive to contribute to design solutions that are future-focused, user-centred and architecturally grounded.

Residential Development – Regent Station

This exterior view showcases the low-rise residential cluster designed to reflect a calm, suburban character while maintaining strong spatial connections to the surrounding landscape. The soft, neutral façade palette and simple massing emphasise material honesty and natural light. The curved pathway in the foreground introduces a gentle transition into the housing precinct, guiding residents through a more open and community-focused environment.

Living & Dining Interior – Regent Station

This interior scene highlights the open-plan living and dining space designed to enhance comfort, light and everyday usability. A warm material palette of timber flooring, soft fabrics and muted tones creates a calm residential atmosphere, while the integrated kitchen and dining arrangement supports fluid family interaction. The balanced composition and layered textures reinforce a sense of homeliness within the broader Regent Station development.

Museum Café – Museum of the Hand Made

The museum café is designed as a light-filled social space that encourages visitors to pause, connect and reflect on the exhibition experience. Large openings bring in natural daylight and views of surrounding greenery, creating a calm and welcoming atmosphere. Simple furniture arrangements and a neutral material palette support flexibility and comfort, aligning with the museum’s focus on craft, tactility and human-centred design.

The Grove Living – Exterior Overview

This exterior overview highlights the main apartment building within The Grove Living, a residential development composed of one apartment block and two townhouse rows. The apartment serves as the central anchor of the project, framing the shared courtyard and establishing a strong visual and spatial identity. Its stepped massing and open circulation enhance natural light, ventilation and community engagement, while the calm material palette reinforces a sense of openness and liveability.

Apartment Kitchen & Dining – The Grove Living

This kitchen and dining space is designed as a warm, open central area within the apartment, supporting daily routines and social interaction. Natural tones, timber flooring and soft lighting create a comfortable residential atmosphere, while the linear kitchen layout maximises usability and clean circulation. Integrated greenery and simple furnishings reinforce the project’s focus on healthy, contemporary living.

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.