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Interior Architecture BA Hons
| Programme title: | BA (Hons) Interior Architecture |
| Apply: | via UCAS |
| Code: | K120 |
| Start (ft): | September |
| Mode: | full-time/ sandwich |
| Duration: | 3 years full-time/ 4 years full-time sandwich |
| Location: | Luton campus, Park Square |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Creative Arts, Technologies & Science |
| Department: | Bedfordshire Institute of Media and the Creative & Performing Arts: Division of Art & Design |
Summary
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. You will develop a creative and critical understanding of building structure and fabric. And you will also develop skills in physical and digital model making.
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 course provides students with a range of opportunities within design practice with large numbers of practices within close geographical reach.
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.
Further details about the programme
The following module information refers to current programmes running 2007/8. This information is therefore subject to review.
STAGE 1
Interior Architecture 1
introduction to the practices and the key skills that underpin Interior Architecture. Through a series of practical activities, the students will be introduced to a range of skills such as composition, drawing and visualising, methods of representing space and form, model-making techniques, a consideration of the impact of structure, materials and methods of environmental control.
Art and Design PPaD (level1)
Enables needs, aspirations and expectations to be identified in working in the professional world of art and design. Understanding the coherence of the art and design programme.
Interior Architecture 2
Develops understanding of the practices and the key skills that underpin Interior Architecture. Through a series of practical activities the students will expand their skills in composition, drawing and visualising, representing space and form, model-making, and relevant IT applications, together with their practical understanding of technical and environmental issues.
Contemporary Issues 1
Introduces both European and non-European key concepts and models of twentieth and twenty-first century art and design practice. It is intended to encourage a critical engagement with some visual arts/design issues.
Visual Research 1
Introduces working attitudes, procedures and concepts essential for effective visual research. Provides knowledge, skills, and conceptual strategies to be able to identify, investigate, organise and interpret visual information.
Skills for Academic Writing
Develops core study skills, irrespective of discipline, involved in producing academic essays/reports and oral presentations.
STAGE 2
Interior Architecture 3
Theoretical, compositional, aesthetic, planning, technical and presentational design issues. Project work - key theories underpinning the work of the Interior Architect, the aesthetics of space and form and space planning. In addition, students investigate in detail how design proposals may be constructed through the study of structure, materials and environmental control systems.
Interior Architecture 4
In depth theoretical, compositional, aesthetic, planning, technical and presentational design issues. The project work builds on that from Interior Architecture 3, examining key theories underpinning the work of the Interior Architect, the aesthetics of space and form and space planning. In addition, students investigate in detail how their design proposals may be constructed through the study of structure, materials and environmental control systems.
Contemporary Issues 2
Advances and develops ability to reflect critically upon contemporary art and design concepts and practices and become familiar with the language and use of visual/oral and textual analysis.
Art and Design PPD
Prepares for the dissertation in the following year as well as developing an understanding of the professional context of art and design specialisms.
STAGE 3
Professional Design Project
Prepares for rapid research and decision-making necessary before design activity can be accomplished. It will prepare the student for the Major Project Module in terms of developing the students project management skills.
Art and Design Dissertation
Independent learning through the writing of a dissertation of approximately 8,000 words.
Art and Design Major project
Production in a body of creative art/design work that is intended to be represented in a public exhibition.
Entry requirements
Standard entry requirements apply for this course.
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.
Find out more
Please contact Garry Layden, Course Manager, for detailed questions about the course content:
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