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Bruce Hall Case Study

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1 Introduction
Bruce Hall used to be one of the iconic residential colleges in ANU, which is prepared to be demolished and rebuilded from 2016 to 2019. To retain the valuable Bruce Hall community in this period, the latest accommodation, Student Accommodation 5 (also called SA5) is now occupied by these Bruce Hall residents. (Burgess, 2016). As SA5 is a brand-new and temporary place of residence, the engineering system tools are used for making some improvements of this new accommodation.
2 The need for SA5
Although SA5 is a fashionably designed dormitory, some managements still bring troubles to residents. Bruce Hall used to be a sociable and multi-cater hall, which allows residents to freely choose to be either catered or self- catered. This …show more content…

Since SA5 locates in central part of ANU, the self-catered residents in SA5 face inconveniences in doing grocery shopping or going dinning in restaurants. Also, SA5 kitchen is not only a place which provides cooking and dinning, but also gives students opportunities to communicate with others. Therefore, the kitchen plays an essential role on retaining the Bruce community.
Bruce Hall used to be a great example of combining catered wing and self-catered wing, but they are in separate buildings, which at the same time, separates the communications between catered and self-catered residents. For SA5, both self-catered and catered are located on the same floor, which creates a chance for interactions. Also, self-catered are minorities in SA5, so they’re experience and requirement would be focused on in this report.

2.2 Interview
To gather the opinions on kitchen of SA5 from current self-catered residents, I did an interview to some self-catered residents, and their requirements are summarized and classified into three parts.
Food supply: Get raw food easily
Enough storing space and safety of storing

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