DR PHIL CROWTHER, HEAD OF DISCIPLINE: The architecture studio is all about experimenting and exploring ideas.

SUSAN LOH, LECTURER: Imagining and postulating, about trying new things out.

ROSEMARY KENNEDY, LECTURER: I think that would be one of the major strengths of the studio, this opportunity to be able to share and collaborate.

DR MIRKO GUARALDA, LECTURER: Students can really have a taste of the professional environment.

DR PHIL CROWTHER: It's this communal environment where students are working together with mentors, with tutors, and it's really kind of trying to give them a taste of what they're going to experience when they are out there actually as practising architects.

MATTHEW HOOPER, STUDENT: In industry it's really important to work in a group. Learning to do that, and being able to be flexible, and learning communication within the studio environment is really important.

DR MIRKO GUARALDA: Students have the chance to apply the theories and the knowledge that they've acquired.

DR PHIL CROWTHER: So this is where students get to kind of own their ideas, and actually experiment, and explore all sorts of exciting and rich concepts.

MATTHEW HOOPER: You know, you work on trace, you work on your iPad, you got your laptop, and it's a real hybrid of ideas.

SARRAH HARTRIDGE, STUDENT: One day I had a set-up, I had the computer here, a huge big sheet of butcher's paper, and then my physical model here.

MATTHEW HOOPER: And it helps you to change from media to media, to be able to just explore concepts. And in doing that I think you really develop your own process.

DAVID GOVER, STUDENT: Everyone has their own style and own ideas, so it's a really great, loose environment.

SARRAH HARTRIDGE: It's a really nice light, kind of casual environment you feel free to create and express, and actually make progress.

ALEX DICKINSON, STUDENT: You're all working towards the same goal but you're all coming from such different angles, so as a studio culture it's really a great place to be in.

DAVID GOVER: You kind of really do learn about yourself and how you work as a person, and in that you can encapsulate that in your designs and your design process. So I think if you're that way inclined and if you're thinking about doing it, it's definitely something to go for and go do it, I think, yeah.