STUDENT DESIGN AWARDS 2016
04 May 2016
Proudly partnered by Home Design magazine, the eussen Living Student Design Awards 2016 invites students of design to strut their stuff for the benefit of Barangaroo House.
The Home Design & eussen Living Student Design Awards 2016 is focused on the ethical, economic and sustainable elements of community-based design. The competition brief requires entrants design an integrated indoor-outdoor space for Barangaroo House, which operates as accommodation for Indigenous families and students in Sydney.
THE BRIEF
Here in Australia, the inside/outside design element in residential dwellings is often essential, as our warm climate allows us to embrace the fact that open-air spaces work best. Interiors are merging with exteriors creating hybrid spaces that enable us to awaken our senses. Interior design meets landscape architecture in the transitional spaces that fuse the indoors to the outdoor spaces. It is this in between state, connecting both spaces that require the interior designer’s sensitive treatment in the blurring of the boundaries between the two.
As technology infiltrates our lives, the need for communication and gatherings are more important than ever. The traditional ‘deck’, ‘veranda’ or ‘balcony is now required to service a different function.
THE CLIENT
‘Australia Cottage’ operates as accommodation for Indigenous families and students in Sydney. The cottage is used to house Indigenous visitors who spend time visiting their children from outback destinations who have been supported by bursaries for high school education.
The housing environment must be accommodating yet sensitive to the occupants heritage and transitional experience.
The cottage is also used to accommodate Year 12 graduates who wish to stay in the city post Year 12 studies until either university begins or jobs are undertaken. This is only temporary accommodation not permanent so it has transient occupants. The cottage must be designed and renovated to make them feel welcome, not overwhelmed, and encourage them to stay in the city rather than return to outback country properties.
The current building is used for accommodation purposes, however it is lacking space for breakout areas. They have the ability to utilise unused areas beyond the current building footprint.
All current degree and diploma design students from the following institutions have been invited to enrol:
SYDNEY & ACT | Whitehouse Institute of Design, Billy Blue College of Design, CATC, Canberra Institute of Technology
MELBOURNE | Whitehouse Institute of Design, Melbourne Polytechnic, Billy Blue College of Design, CATC , Holmesglen Institute
BRISBANE | Billy Blue College of Design, CATC
PERTH | Billy Blue College of Design, WA Central Institute of Technology
The competition is fierce and entries will be judged by John Eussen and Kate St James, Editor-in-Chief of Home Design magazine, on 16 May 2016. Final results will be released on 30 May 2016.