Interior design btec pearson level 3 certificate

Course Content:
The course aims to develop the skills, knowledge and understanding needed to design effective and creative interior solutions using appropriate techniques and materials.

There is one core unit which spans the year, and three selected specialist units as follows:
Core unit 1: Visual Recording in Art and Design
This unit aims to extend learners’ ability to select and visually record from a range of sources in order to communicate information to different audiences, using appropriate presentation methods and for a range of specific purposes.
Learners will build their visual language skills and understanding through using the formal elements (line, tone, colour, shape, pattern, surface, structure etc.) in a wide range of visual studies activities, developing the ability to identify and select for different purposes appropriate visual qualities from direct observation. Understanding the process of exploring and recording will involve experimenting with mark making using varied materials, techniques and processes appropriate to interior design.


Specialist unit 2: 3D Design Media, Techniques and Technology
The aim of this unit is to encourage learners to develop the skills, understanding and knowledge of working with a range of 3D materials in order to fully realise the potential of their ideas.
On completion of this unit learners will:
• Know about the characteristics and properties of 3D materials
• Be able to investigate 3D media, techniques and technology
• Be able to use 3D media, techniques and technology safely
• Understand own use of 3D media, techniques and technology.
Specialist Unit 3: Small Scale Design
This unit aims to develop learners’ skills, knowledge and understanding, investigating small-scale design to their specialist pathway (in this case Interior Design). Learners will gain an insight into different practitioners’ ideas and approaches and will use their research to inform and inspire their own practice. This unit will develop learners’ skills in using small-scale design methods, by carrying out a design brief, analysing requirements, developing ideas and producing outcomes and reviewing the process at all stages.
On completion of this unit learners will:
• Understand the purpose of a small-scale design project
• Understand the context in which specialist work was produced
• Understand the function, purpose and qualities of creative small scale design
• Be able to develop and produce design ideas for a small-scale design project
• Know how to review working methods used to realise outcomes for a small-scale design project.
Specialist Unit 4: Large Scale Design
The aim of this unit is to develop learners’ skills in large-scale design.
It enables learners to explore and experiment with the manipulation of ideas and models in specialised areas of study such as architecture and interior design, environmental design, exhibition and display design, urban design and landscape design.
On completion of this unit learners will:
• Understand a brief for a large-scale design project
• Be able to develop design ideas for a large-scale design project
• Be able to produce design ideas for a large-scale design project
• Know how to review working methods used to realise outcomes for a large-scale design project.
All units require learners to develop and present creative ideas in response to a brief. You will evaluate your own and others' work in terms of aesthetic values, innovative values, functionality and fitness for purpose.

This is a project-led course in which you will learn through practical demonstration, formal instruction and individual tuition, but primarily by working towards your individual design solution to a given brief.

Assessment Methods:
Your progress will be assessed through in-class observation and your final grade determined on submission of your coursework folder.