Interior Architecture Year 1 Interior Architecture BA (Hons)
TUTORS: Anastasia Tsamitrou [Year Lead, Module Leader], George Christofi, Inan Gokcek, Jo Meehan, Sue Phillips & Urna Sodnomjamts
BA Interior Architecture Year 1 places students at the centre of an exploratory and supportive learning environment where they develop their own design voice through experimenting with drawing, model making, digital tools and material processes.
In First Year, BA Interior Architecture students are introduced to the concepts and principles of the discipline, learning fundamental processes, skills and techniques to explore and communicate this design specialism.
To quickly engage in the topic, students were set a range of short assignments to survey spaces and people at the start of Semester One. Inspired by visits, digital skills and a range of physical making techniques with different materials, students progressively learned through hand-drawn and handmade work, alongside 2D and 3D digital, mechanical and material technologies.
Sustainability is a key principle to Interior Architecture and the year-wide Climate Week focused on aspects of sustainability in design and making. Students engaged critically with the relationship between space, material, body and environment, responding to contemporary social, cultural and ecological conditions through diverse and ambitious design approaches.
Students were asked to channel these ideas in the design of a temporary interior installation for Young V&A that reconstructed childhood memories through play, spatial experience, materiality and narrative design, while responding sensitively to the building’s retrofitted architecture.
The main design project of the year imagined re-modelling part of Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross, for sustainable makers who specialise in repair, re-purposing, modification and up-cycling of waste. Talks from makers and designers about the wider context of the neighbourhood and the burden of consumer waste on the community fuelled students’ site and context investigations. While developing an. understanding of re-making, reuse practices and circular design, the students iteratively investigated materials and techniques to create performance spaces for the community.
Archive of Interior Architecture’s work from previous years:
Interior Architecture Year 1 2016-2017
Interior Architecture Year 1 2017-2018
Interior Architecture Year 1 2018-2019
Interior Architecture Year 1 2019-2020
Interior Architecture Year 1 2020-2021
Interior Architecture Year 1 2021-2022
Interior Architecture Year 1 2022-2023
Interior Architecture Year 1 2023-2024
Interior Architecture Year 1 2024-2025
