Truc Quan Le

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I am an emerging interior architecture designer based in Melbourne, where I am completing the final year of my Bachelor of Interior Architecture. My practice is shaped by a fascination with how spaces can tell stories how material, light, sound, and atmosphere can draw people closer to nature and to themselves. I am especially drawn to sustainable design and immersive experiences that invite users to pause, feel, and reconnect.

As an international student, I have learned to navigate new environments with curiosity. This constant process of observing and adapting has become part of my design language. I draw inspiration from the textures of everyday life, from cultural contrasts, and from the quiet emotional moments that architecture can hold. My philosophy blends functionality with narrative, crafting spaces that are grounded, tactile, and meaningful.

My capstone project, Eterna, is the clearest reflection of this vision. Set along the Frankston shoreline, Eterna reimagines sustainable tourism through a hybrid land–sea hotel where visitors are immersed in the rhythms of the ocean. Through its underwater dining experience, aquarium-like corridors, and commitment to renewable materials, Eterna becomes more than a destination it becomes a reminder that our oceans are fragile, vast, and essential to human life.

I hope to continue shaping retail, hospitality, and eco-focused residential spaces that are both beautiful and responsible spaces that encourage people to slow down and rediscover the natural world around them.

Eco-Suite Interior

A calming guest suite designed with warm natural tones, layered textures, and gentle daylight to create a tranquil, restorative environment connected to the surrounding ocean landscape.

Land–Sea Hotel Design

A full exterior perspective showcasing Eterna’s hybrid structure, where elevated suites meet the submerged undersea restaurant, creating a seamless transition between land, water, and sky.

Coastal Eco-Suite Terrace

A serene private balcony featuring filtered natural light, a sculptural plunge pool, and soft coastal materials designed to frame uninterrupted views of the horizon.

Immersive Undersea Dining & Performance Hall

A serene, ocean-inspired dining space where soft lighting, reflective surfaces, and fluid forms merge to create a calming, atmospheric experience. Designed to celebrate human connection through music, space, and sustainable materiality.

Tidal Bar

A sculpted bar environment shaped by underwater gradients and coral-inspired textures. The space blends luxury and sustainability, offering guests a sensory journey surrounded by panoramic marine views.

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.