OVERVIEW
- Gain real world experience on live industry projects
- Learn from international acclaimed architects and designers
- Explore spaces in project based field work
- Interior Architecture and Design students have participated in live projects with a number of commercial partners including Letchworth Garden City urban regeneration, Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen, Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange, The Forum Hertfordshire, Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council and St Albans Museums.
- The degree focuses on working with existing buildings and spaces and exploring different possibilities for habitation.
- The Interior Architecture and Design degree pursues a progressive and holistic teaching approach as we consider the design process as something non-linear or sequential (i.e. research first, design later).
- Graduates from the course are eligible for associate membership to professional institutions such as: The British Interior Design Association, The Society of British Interior Design and The Chartered Society of Designer.
What's the course about?
This course specialises in the design and production of immersive, innovative and surprising interior spaces. You will have the opportunity to design and think between the digital and the physical worlds. Virtual and augmented reality are mixed with physical making and prototyping skills, which enables you to think about design with an open mind and challenge you to communicate your ideas in the most exciting ways. There’s great emphasis on the understanding and use of materials as you explore surface design and detailing.
Throughout the course you’ll work with existing buildings and conditions, producing refit, refurbishment, retrofit, re-use and place-making designs. As you progress, you’ll develop an expertise in producing impressive drawings, images and models, as you not only design functional, contemporary and innovative interiors, but – above all else – create immersive atmospheres.
Your main campus is College Lane??
This is where the creative arts, science and health-related subjects?are based. This means you’ll share the campus with future nurses, scientists, artists and more. You can use the common rooms to relax with friends, work out in the 24-hour gym or have a drink in our?on-campus?pub or cafes.?We also have restaurants for you to eat in or grab something on the go.?Our Learning Resources Centres are open 24/7, which means you can study whenever suits you best. Want to pop over to the other campus??You can take the free shuttle bus or walk there in just 15 minutes.???
What will I study?
Lectures, Workshops, Seminars, Field Trips, Group and Individual Tutorials, Critiques, Live Pitches with Clients/ Industry Panels.
The Interior Architecture and Design degree will develop your knowledge, skills and techniques of Interior Architecture and Design, to broaden and deepen your understanding of and competency in Interior Architecture and Design. Students are encouraged to engage with some key contemporary issues and learn to develop their design exploration and experimentation, to be more self-directed in their design processes and to produce coherent and more complex design resolutions.
This degree will introduce students to thinking about the "interior" as a space of intersecting environments within an urban realm. Interior Architecture is explored as the engagement with and adaptation and transformation of the existing built fabric across both inside and outside spaces, generating ideas from a critical engagement with occupation, material form, site context and culture.
You will develop proficiency in a wide range of communication and technical skills from hand drawings, physical model making, CAD drawings and knowledge of structure, construction, materials and detailing. Learn how to observe, analyse, represent and communicate the qualities of existing spaces, adapt and improve existing building fabrics. In addition, a Critical and Cultural Studies modules offer the opportunity for students to acquire the theoretic and historic knowledge of the discipline while exploring a particular contemporary issues in depth.
CAREER PATHSYou will gain the transferable skills which will enable you to respond to current and future career challenges. Create opportunities for live projects and work placements in the industry. The course will equip you with career development skills to work professionally in the disciplines related to interior architecture and design and contribute creatively in a variety of roles, working independently and as part of multidisciplinary design teams.
This course will prepare you for a variety of careers. Our Interior Architecture and Design graduates have gone on to work as:
- Interior Designer
- Visual Merchandise and Commercial Display Designer
- Museum & Exhibition Designer
- Model Maker
- Renderer
- Theatre Designer
- Project Coordinators
- Design business start-up
- Design Journalist
- Design Teacher
Interior architects and designers can work on new construction projects or within existing buildings, as an individual practitioner or entrepreneur, within an architectural or interior design company, or as part of a multi-disciplinary design consultancy. With the opportunity to move into areas such as retail design and display, production design for stage, film or television, exhibition design, event design, styling of photo shoots, or virtual environments, interactive design and game design. There is work on small-scale domestic schemes for individual clients or be involved in large corporate identity and branding projects. The Interior Architecture and Design programme enables you to explore the design possibilities of these different areas, to develop your own position as a designer and help them achieve their personal and career development plans.
You’ll be well equipped for a job in the creative industries, whether you choose to specialise in interior architecture and design or move into a more multidisciplinary role. Many graduates have been offered jobs from leading companies, such as Foster + Partners. You’ll also be eligible for membership of several professional institutions.
The School of Creative Arts works closely with industry such as the Hertfordshire Associates of Architects, Wilkinson Eyre, Zaha Hadid Architects, Sir Robert McAlphine, Morgan Sindalls Architects, TP Bennetts and many more. You’ll benefit from industry lectures, workshops, critical feedback and awards activities with these companies. Additionally, we have a strong relationship with Denton Associates, which is the longest established design and build company in London. Every year on the course we run an ongoing graduate employment scheme with the company, offering many permanent job opportunities to our graduates.
You’ll have the opportunity to attend career and employment events that happen twice a year, where UK design companies provide internship opportunities, part time positions, portfolio review and interview experiences. Many previous students have gained work experience after attending the events.
The course will prepare you to enter and to deal with changes in the design industry with confidence. You will learn portfolio preparation, interview technique, professional etiquettes, freelancing, contracts, project costing, business budgeting, studio management and how to promote your business on different platforms and social media.
Gain experience by immersing yourself in different cultures and explore the world of design. You’ll have the opportunity to travel and work on collaborative projects with our international partners in Tokyo, New York, Canada, Sri Lanka, Athens, Berlin and Copenhagen. We also run an international multi-disciplinary project with our New York partner on campus, so you can participate and achieve a real booster project to your portfolio.
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