Interior Architecture Year 2 Interior Architecture BA (Hons)

Era Savvides, Alessandro Ayuso, Jake Parkin & James Engel

Era Savvides is a partner at the creative collective Urban Radicals. Her design philosophy centres around a materially-driven, crafted approach to digital design and the creative use of robotic fabrication within the built environment.

Alessandro Ayuso is Senior Lecturer whose studio-based practice and research focus on the intersection of representation, architecture and the body.

Jake Parkin is a designer and tutor based in London. Alongside teaching, his work focuses on exhibition, set and architectural design.

James Engel is a practising architect and educator. He established the cross-disciplinary design studio, Spaced Out and is passionate about how design can solve problems and improve wellbeing.

Culture, Alteration, Material and Detail

Students: Nouf Al Jeraisys, Tala Al-Hiyarats, Aida Ali Bakris, Tamara Alirezas, Amal Alkhajas, Nouf Alsadouns, Helin Altinatmazs, Mariam Amin Sadeks, Rabab Bilals, Carla Canestros, Liliya Chylikinas, Angelina Constantinidess, Aashman Danewalias, Fatema Dashtis, MyattIro Delidimitris, Aaron Dunnes, Grace Fallowss, Laysa Fernandes Bertoldo Da Costas, Ann-Sophie Froschs, Merjen Geldiyevas, Kathrine Giacominis, Talia Hepburns, Sophia Hesses, Avleen Hunjans, Hyejeong HwangImans, Victoria Kayas, Beritan Kilics, Krystian Kowalczyks, Tsz Liangs, Tong Lians, Siying Lis, Alicia Mckenzies, Viktorija Minseviciute, Angelica Mirandas Valdiviezos, Shierryn Mohamed Farozs, Keiran Moores, Blessing Nzaus, Jo-Anne Obis, Tuana Ozurens, Isabella Pacellis, Jali Parriss, Humaira Pervins, Anna Samoenkos, Cameron Sins, Olivia Stylianous, Lily Thompson, Lara Thompsons, Jenny Vasanis, Jessica Vatamaniucs, Audrey Wistehuffs, Sarah Witneys, Kaiwen Zhengs

This year, our year 2 students looked for the materially sensuous and the impeccably crafted. ur studio focused on poetic, transformational spaces and interiors that have the potential to become catalysts for change. The year unfolded into two inter-related semesters, aiming to engage students with material experimentation and craft as drivers for sustainable design thinking. This allowed students to explore how small-scale processes can influence large-scale spaces and helped develop a deeper understanding of environmentally-conscious material and crafted modes of operating within interior architecture.

In Semester One we ventured across London in search of material and immaterial observations of ‘time’. Through a series of rigorous and playful design processes, the students tested themselves as architectural flâneurs, gathering information directly from the urban realm and applying this to the design of meaningful spatial proposals, responding of the needs of the South Bank mooring community.

Semester Two was an opportunity to interact with real clients, and focus on constructing spatial experiences and designing atmospheres for flagship concept stores in the retail sector. Through a series of process-driven material experimentation workshops, students were given the opportunity to develop a personal understanding of a set of seemingly incompatible materials. Using this, they were tasked to construct innovative material applications and assemblages that would inform the production of immersive, atmospheric spatial proposals, responding to the creative agendas of two emerging fashion brands.

Special thanks: Eleni Diana Elia, Theo Jones (Green Matt Workshop), Chris Kokarev (Material Cultures), Aleksandar Harry Stankovic, Jacob Valvis (Green Matt Workshop)