Interior Architecture and Design at University of Hertfordshire at Main

BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design specializes in the design and production of immersive, innovative and surprising interior spaces. There’s great emphasis on the understanding and use of materials as learners explore surface design and detailing. Throughout the course students will work with existing buildings and conditions, producing refit, refurbishment, retrofit, re-use and place-making designs. As student's progress they’ll develop an expertise in producing impressive drawings, images and models, as they not only design functional, contemporary and innovative interiors, but – above all else – create immersive atmospheres.

This degree course will develop learners' knowledge, skills and techniques of Interior Architecture and Design,  to broaden and deepen their 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.

Students will be introduced 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.

Students 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, analyze, 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.

The Year Abroad will provide students in Creative Arts with the opportunity to expand, develop and apply the knowledge and skills gained in the first two taught years of the degree within a different organizational and cultural environment in a partner academic institution. Moreover, an optional 'Sandwich' placement year may be undertaken between the levels 5 and 6. A placement could take a variety of forms, including: working in an external organization; working with a University company or professional team within the University; self-employment within defined context and externally refereed.