Interior Architecture

BA (Hons) Interior Architecture
Mode: full-time

This course focuses on spatial manipulation and innovation, and on the fundamental restructuring of building interiors.

You will explore the design of interior environments in a wider urban (or suburban, or rural) context.

A degree in Interior Architecture can be a route to working overseas, particularly in Europe and the United States.

Interior Architecture involves students in spatial design problems, providing students with opportunities to create exciting and dynamically innovative interior environments.

The course involves students in a multi-disciplinary context, introducing them to contemporary design concepts as well as the necessary technological and organisational skills.

Students will investigate space-planning, composition, material properties, structure, environmental control and sustainability.

Students are encouraged from early in the course to take ownership of their creativity and its outcomes, while at the same time developing an understanding of the contexts that affect Interior Architecture.

Teaching and learning strategies include practical workshop sessions, personal study, one-to-one tutorials/supervision, seminars, demonstrations and importantly the use of a reflective/contextual journal as a means of understanding individual learning.

Students will benefit from excellent studio facilities and learning support. Visits are a vital and integral part of the course along with attendance at special key lectures delivered by experienced practitioners in the field.

Areas of study include:

• Design Practice
• Exhibition Design
• 3D Model-making
• Basic Web Page Design
• Digital Image Creation and Manipulation
• Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
• Digital Film Editing

Why choose this course?

• Multi-disciplinary approach, with many opportunities for collaborative work
• Teaching staff with extensive experience in practice
• Professional-quality facilities including IT-suites, television studios and a theatre
• Predominantly project-based coursework
• Dedicated studio spaces within a dynamic and stimulating learning environment
• Training in industry-standard technologies and software packages
• Opportunities for overseas study through a successful and long-standing exchange programme
• Final-stage students can showcase their work online and at a graduate exhibition in London

Career Opportunities

The university provides career development sessions for students and there are qualified staff available to assist students with the strategy, application and writing processes.

Assessment

Practical projects are the key learning tool within the programme. Formative and summative assessments are seen as an important method of ensuring students understanding and progress.

Continuous assessment is a feature of the programme and although there are no end-point examinations, formative assessment is carried out in relation to all of the work that is done in response to assignments that are an integral part of the programme.

Assessable coursework will in addition to Design work, include the following: Research Portfolios, Notebooks, Research Assignments, Essays and Dissertations.

Special entry requirements

Applicants will be invited to attend interview and a portfolio of work should be presented for discussion and perusal by the Programme Team.