Interior Architecture Year 3 Interior Architecture BA (Hons)

Diony Kypraiou, Sam Aitkenhead, Zoe Diakaki, Ro Spankie, Allan Sylvester & Anastasia Tsamitrou

Sam Aitkenhead is a designer, researcher and maker whose work across architecture, interiors, graphics and product design explores ways to reduce environmental impact through design and material innovation.

Zoe Diakaki is an architect and set designer whose work sits at the intersection of performing arts, scenography and human interaction technologies.

Diony Kypraiou is Senior Lecturer, an architect and researcher. Her work explores polyvocal practices and performance drawing analogies across theatre, psychoanalysis, interiors and architecture. She is a member of the Interior Educators network.

Ro Spankie is Assistant Head of School and Subject Lead for Interior Architecture. Fascinated by the role of the drawing in the design process, she has exhibited and published work related to the interior in the UK and abroad.

Allan Sylvester is Visiting Lecturer, a practicing architect, and founding partner of Ullmayer Sylvester Architects, a design-led, multidisciplinary collaborative practice.

Anastasia Tsamitrou is an archaeologist and architectural designer at Pilbrow & Partners, focusing on the sustainability and energy efficiency of their projects.

YEAR 3: Spatial Narratives & Thesis Project

Students: Kristelle-Liis Ahone, Tala Al-Hiyarat, Aida Ali Bakri, Tamara Alireza, Nouf Al-Jeraisy, Nouf Alsadoun, Helin Altinatmaz, Mariam Amin Sadek, Rabab Bilal, Carla Canestro, Liliya Chylikina, Angelina Constantinides, Aashman Danewalia, Fatema Dashti, Iro Delidimitri, Grace Fallows, Laysa Fernandes Bertoldo Da Costa, Ann-Sophie Frosch, Merjen Geldiyeva, Kathrine Giacomini, Sophia Hesse, Avleen Hunjan, Nehir Kaya, Fateme Khaleghi, Krystian Kowalczyk, Viktorija Minseviciute, Shierryn Batrisyea Mohamed Faroz, Keiran Moore, Shima Mousawi, Malak Nasser, Blessing Nzau, Isabella Pacelli, Jali Parris, Humaira Pervin, Nanina Rainer, Anna Samoenko, Cameron Sin, Olivia Stylianou, Lara Thompson, Lily Thompson, Jessica Vatamaniuc, Audrey Wistehuff, Kaiwen Zheng

This year’s SPATIAL NARRATIVES module challenged students to design a visionary Scientific Discovery Centre – an interactive space where science, public engagement and policy converge. Inspired by Alexander Fleming’s legacy, student proposals reimagined how interiors can foster innovation, public dialogue and global collaboration in science. The final designs promote access, curiosity, and speculative scientific scenarios for the interiors of the future.

Building on previous years, the Co-Production Workshop with Imperial College medical students enabled students to explore the design’s profound impact on health. With expert guidance from practitioners, clinicians, patient advocates and design professionals, interdisciplinary student groups collaborated to propose small-scale healthcare interventions in the public realm. Such dynamic experiences challenge students to think critically about their role as designers to create solutions that genuinely improve lives.

The Thesis Project is the focus in Semester 2. Each student develops a programme for a host building they select to reuse, reflecting on their personal design interests. Ideas are explored using a variety of techniques, including material research, testing and immersive technologies. The diversity of schemes, including Do Androids Dream of Distant Futures? A VR and gardening hub at Barking Power Station; Colvestone House: the transformation of a disused Hackney school in to a youth centre supporting emotional safety and independence through playful design; and The Reclaimed Mahal: an Indian cultural hub created in a Crystal Palace Subway, highlights the breadth of creative speculation and innovative thinking within the programme, setting the stage for the next generation of interior architecture designers.

Guest Critics: Abdi Ai (Ruimte Design), Mimi Dietrich, Seda Eldek (Perkins+Will), Amos Goldreich (Tamart), Jack Hoe (Resident Architects), Mehdi Jelokhani (i/o atelier), Maya Kurantowicz (Johnson Pinney Architects), Anoushka Pacquette (Gensler), Roman Pardon (Pardon Chamber Architects), Jake Parkin, Aaron Perry (Kennedy Woods), Adam Phillips (Gensler), Fynla Stallybrass (Foster + Partners), Vanessa Wing Ting (Arup)

Special thanks: Catherine Carpenter (Bespoke Careers), Micah Davis-Rae (Bespoke Careers), Clementine Fletcher-Smith (Speirs Major Light Architecture), Annie Frost Nicholson, Amos Goldreich (Tamart), Andrew Revell, Deborah Schneiderman (Pratt Institute), Acme Studios, Anares Studios, Gensler, Hudson Rock, muf architecture/art, Nissen Richards, Toogood Studios, Winch