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>> DR CHURCHILL: Currently we're in the disused Myer building in Fremantle.
Last week there was nothing here — it was derelict.
This week, the Interior Architecture and Architecture students from Curtin University have moved
in with their best work and created this amazing exhibition.
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>> DR NEILLE: This is their opportunity to put that stuff on the wall in an open forum
and display their thinking, their intelligence, their discoveries.
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>> LAUREN: It feels like quite an accomplishment actually.
It's really nice to have the opportunity to show something that we've worked on so hard.
>> CAMDEN: You're creating this really great work and you've got to show it off, to not
only in the future content your client, because it's not just for yourself and it's not just
like an essay, it's really for a lot of people to see.
>> JADE: It's such an achievement to have gotten this far.
It's a very high intensity course, um, it's a personal achievement that I definitely won't
forget.
>> BRETT: It's good to get that feedback from the public, whether they like it or not.
And I guess that's the measure of good architecture.
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>> LAUREN: I've got a panelling system over in the corner there.
It's a screen that sits in front of a forgotten or disused space.
And it opens and closes in response to the user, so it's robotic.
The concept came from a theory called third space, which looks at perceived space which
is the space we touch and interact with every day.
And conceive space which is the space of thought.
And the idea of a third space in between those two, that is a superory position, or some
sort of strange relationship between the two of them.
>> KATRINA: I'm trying to see how a spacial interior could provoke a sublime experience.
The idea is that you're supposed to just forget your inhibitions and just feel the landscape
and take off your shoes.
Totally go into it.
It's darkness and there's pebbles around.
A few close walls.
I'm pretty excited to see what it's going to bring.
See how people react to my space.
>> JESSICA: You know when you're in the industry for a while you tend to get a bit, I think
sometimes things can get a bit stale or you get bogged down in the real life issues such
as budgets, and you know, clients.
But when you're, obviously looking around you can see that the students don't have those
kind of stresses and they're really free in their thinking and the way they actually approach
design is really different.
>> BRETT: I believe that the work should be understood by the broader public.
I don't think it should just be academic or theoretical.
>> CAMDEN: If you're going to create a space for someone to explore and to engage and create
an experience in, you need to have that experience as well to create that.
So, you find yourself really immersed in what you're doing and what you're testing.
>> JADE: The way that it opened me up to my creativity.
I didn't realise that I had certain skills before I started.
I didn't realise that I could draw, I didn't realise that I could articulate my ideas.
>> KELISE: The way that you see the world, it's changed once you've kind of spend five
years or six years, kind of developing taste and learning about the built environment and
everything around you and why it is the way it is.
>> JESSICA: My outlook and the way that I react to the built environment — that's
completely changed.
I can't walk down a street and not be looking in the air!
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>> JADE: Always being able to test something, and trial it, and push further.
And never just kind of be comfortable with the first idea.
>> JESSICA: I actually think there's a number of superstars in the room tonight.
>> DR NEILLE: It's really not about the ordinary, it's about trying to make something special
for everyone.
>> JESSICA: I've come out knowing enough of certain things to interject them into my design.
And make sure that they're workable and understandable and they have the possibility to be built.
>> CAMDEN: I feel like I've got enough within myself to contribute to the field.
>> KATRINA: Yeah, I'm hoping for big things, yeah.
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