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Interior Design BA (Hons)
Your studies will focus on objects and their relationships with space, as well as the ways in which they create the user experience.
You will learn the importance of sustainability and environmentally responsible design; tradition and heritage of place; aesthetics and materiality; as well as the impact design has on human experience and well-being.
We will equip you with a critical and contemporary understanding of interior space. These skills will allow you to remodel the past, create the present and inform the future.
You will undertake collaborative projects spanning a range of contexts, countries and cultures. You will explore and employ a range of technologies, critically engage with live briefs and real-world concerns as you develop your own design identity.
This will enable you to compose, visualise and simulate unique and individual environments, preparing you for your future.
Your core subjects of creative thinking, drawing, model making, studio design techniques and CAD technologies will give you a solid basis in design fundamentals.
You’ll explore different techniques, ideas and approaches in a variety of areas, including:
• Remodelling; preserving; restoring; renovating existing sites
• Create user-centred environments (live; work; rest; play)
• Analyse Client Culture (design language; mood; atmosphere)
• Formulate design strategies
• Creating appropriate places for experience
• Produce Tectonic Detail information
• Sketching and scaled detail design drawing
• Model-making and 3D visualising (CAD; Virtual Reality; Perceptual Experience Lab)
• Developing relationships with clients, constructors and other specialists
• Legal and Regulatory Frameworks
You’ll learn about the creative, scientific and functional considerations you need to take into account when you’re dealing with space. And you’ll become familiar with technical, legal and regulatory constraints facing interior designers.
Your future
• There is a significant focus on real-world experience; from building contacts and undertaking placements to live briefs with clients. In your final year you can choose to develop a business plan and be supported in forming your own business.
• Graduates are well placed to join interior design companies and work as independent designers. Postgraduate study within the Cardiff School of Art & Design is also an option.
Place of study: Llandaff Campus
Course length: 3-4 years full-time, dependent upon taking a year-long sandwich placement
Entry requirements: Typical offer: 96-120
UCAS Points
Opportunities to study part of this degree in Welsh are available
