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Interior Architecture - BA (Hons) Degree

Remodel, redesign, and reinvent the spaces of the future.

Interior Architects shape the spaces we inhabit, working to design functional, accessible, stimulating and sustainable environments. Driven by a people-centred approach to designing spaces, you will work to enhance the quality, wellbeing and needs of those that inhabit and interact within them.

The programme sits within the Architecture and Designed Environments department, benefitting from ongoing collaboration with Architects, Interior Designers and Architectural Design Technologists. Interior Architecture benefits from cutting-edge research and applied practice in sustainable and inclusive design.

You will focus on the adaptation, reuse, remodelling and augmentation of pre-existing spaces. With a focus on sustainability, you will explore approaches to creating both permanent and temporary design solutions. Comprehensive facilities will ensure that you develop a rich creative and technical architectural language, ranging from sketching to data-rich immersive digital simulations.

Your studio-based practice will include critical theory, exploration, and a variety of briefs. You will work with industry and the wider sector to explore the relationships between places and spaces, and the values of the communities that use them. You will investigate the responsible and thoughtful use of materials, structures and spaces, to propose innovative and sophisticated solutions to the problems of the future. As part of this degree, you will undertake interdisciplinary learning experiences that are designed to shape you into an adaptable 21st century graduate.​


We endeavour to deliver courses as described and will not normally make changes to courses, such as course title, content, delivery, and teaching provision. However, it may be necessary for the university to make changes in the course provision before or after enrolment. It reserves the right to make variations to content or delivery methods, including discontinuation or merging courses if such action is considered necessary. Please read our Terms and Conditions for the full information.​​​

Key Course Information

UCAS Code:
K561​ - 3-year degree

Place of Study:
Llandaff Campus

School:
Cardiff School of Art & Design

Course Length:
Three years full-time. Four years full-time if undertaking year-long sandwich placement.​

COURSE OVERVIEW | MEET THE TEAM
Meet the Team: Craig Thomas

Senior lecturer Craig Thomas discusses his career as an Interior Designer / Interior Architect and how he uses his experience to help prepare our students for the industry.

Meet the Team: Charlie Bull

Technician Demonstrator Charlie Bull discusses how she helps our students to bring their ideas to life through digital design and visualisation.

 

Photography StudiosOur photographic facilities include three lighting studios equipped with electronic flash, Tungsten and LED lighting, and a wet darkroom for traditional photographic processes.

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Wood WorkshopsOur woodwork facilities offer a full range of equipment including bandsaws, sanders, wood lathes, circular and cross-cut saws and planer thicknessers.

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Metal WorkshopsOur Metal Workshops offer equipment and support for a range of techniques, from lost wax bronze casting processes and welding to traditional forge and sheet metal work.

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APPLYING TO CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN
What to Include in Your Portfolio

Student Recruitment Officer and Cardiff School of Art and Design graduate Abbie shares her portfolio tips.

Full terms and conditions in relation to accepting an offer to study at Cardiff Metropolitan University can be found by visiting www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/terms