Interior Design

Interior Design Projects 1
This module introduces students to the key concepts and approaches underpinning Interior Design practice, enabling students to produce their own creative work with a defined rationale. On this module, students ‘learn by doing’ while fulfilling Interior Design project briefs that develop understanding of 3D geometry and spatial configuration. 

Interior Architectural Communication 1 
This module runs in tandem with the Interior Design Projects 1 module and allows students to explore how they visually communicate their ideas at various points in the design process, as well as equipping them with the analogue and digital modelling and visualisation skills to do so. 

Building Analysis 
This module addresses ways in which interior environments can impact upon users. It covers issues such as: space and structure; functions and principles of building interiors; organisation and hierarchy; materials used in interior spaces; building in relation to an environmental setting; accessibility; ergonomic and anthropometric data.

Interior Design Core Skills 
The module begins with an introduction to basic drawing conventions, awareness of scale, representing a 3D space as a 2D drawing, understanding how to cut plans and sections and represent elevations, as well as 3D projections and perspective views. These processes are initially taught hand drawn before introducing basic CAD software to digitize these drawings. 

Interior Design in Context 1 
This module lays the foundation for understanding how to analyse, research and discuss
designed objects and ideas surrounding their design, production or consumption. Through the study of precedent projects, students begin to understand how design is influenced by the context(s) of a specific time and place, as well as to appreciate that their own design work relates to the context(s) in which they operate. 

Ethical and Sustainable Design 
Students will explore ways in which designers respond to environmental, social and ethical issues in society through creative practice. This will enable students to reflect upon their own practice and to consider the practical effects and symbolic implications of their design work.

Interior Design Projects 2 
This module emphasizes creative and strategic thinking in response to a brief and the
increasingly independent exploration of design concepts and visual presentation methods.
Students are introduced to a range of specialist areas within Interior Design (such exhibition, retail, hospitality, commercial, heritage or cultural projects) to recognize how to approach different types of projects, as well as to increase awareness of the field and career possibilities

Interior Architectural Communication 2 
On this module, students learn about analogue and digital presentation techniques and
develop skills to present information in 2D and 3D physical and digital formats. Students
explore visual branding strategies and learn to create visuals that capture the essence of a project’s visual identity. Students also learn to do a feasibility study, which will prepare them for self-choice projects in final year.

Interior Design Professional Skills
This module addresses two areas of professionalism relative to Interior Design: industry
standard production drawing and specification as well as recognition of each student’s
current skill level in relation to desired career goals. 

Interior Design in Context 2 
This module builds on students’ research, analysis and communication skills, enabling
students to understand and explain in greater depth the contexts and concepts relating to Interior Design. Students work independently and collaboratively to develop communication and project management skills. 

Conservation Principles and Sustainability 
This module addresses the key conservation principles that designers should adhere to
when dealing with buildings of historical or social significance, especially listed and
protected buildings. This module also addresses sustainability in relation to the conservation of the existing built environment and in material specification.

Interior Design Major Project 
This module may be seen as the ‘capstone’ of the degree, where students draw on the skills that they have developed throughout the course to produce a self-selected major project. 

Production Information 
On this module, which runs in tandem with Interior Design Major Project, students learn to produce the necessary technical drawings following industry standards to explain and
quantify the proposed Interior Design scheme and main internal elements for their self-
selected major project. (e.g. technical detailing, finishes layouts and reflected soffit plans integrating lighting schematics).

Competition and Exhibition
This module encourages students to focus on design work that is more outward facing, such as entering design competition briefs and planning the end of year design showcase, in order to build up their professional profiles and portfolios.

Critical Research in Interior Design
This module gives students the opportunity to explore an area of personal interest and/or in relation to their career goals. Students research a topic of their choice and develop a reasoned argument, culminating in a final written outcome of approximately 5,000 words, which may include elements of originality.

Professional Practice
On this module, students engage with wider issues relating to the Interior Design industry,including professional requirements and ethical standards. This serves to develop ethical professionalism, as well as time and project management skills.