Interior Architecture Year 3 Interior Architecture BA (Hons)
TUTORS: Alessandro Ayuso [year lead], Sam Aitkenhead, James Engel, Jake Parkin Roman Pardon, Ro Spankie, Allan Sylvester, Adam West & Julian Williams
In Year 3, students learn to move comfortably between scales and environments: from a space occupied by one citizen, to how interiors forge relationships between groups, before navigating global contexts and larger discussions framed by narratives of inspiration and regeneration.
Students in their final year of study of BAIA started their design year with a brief called Revolution of The Imagination. It asked students to transform the Canal Museum building in Somers Town into a space for a Climate Assembly, a version of a Citizen’s Assembly that brings diverse groups of people together to discuss the climate crisis.
Taking the position that all design starts with an understanding of the people that inhabit it, students constructed self-portraits of themselves as citizens. Made with CNC fabrication and rigid media printing, these half and full-scale models were part of the ‘Nine Earths’ Exhibition held in Ambika P3, curated by D-FUSE. As well as helping to make a large-scale mural, students designed and installed their own part of the exhibition, and contributed as panel members as part of the exhibition events.
Visualising their own self-portraits as inhabitants in the existing building provoked ideas about how the space that surrounds and connects individuals could give way to larger design propositions. This approach carried over to Semester Two when students designed their self-directed Thesis projects. The year was enriched by site visits, digital media, portfolio design and storytelling workshops, dedicated technical tutorials and practice-oriented activities such as the Interiors Matters lecture series and Careers Week, during which students visited design offices, participated in mock interviews, had the opportunity to speak to alumni about their experience and gain further insights of the working world from practitioner lectures.
Archive of Year 3’s work from previous years:
Interior Architecture Year 3 2016-2017
Interior Architecture Year 3 2017-2018
Interior Architecture Year 3 2018-2019
Interior Architecture Year 3 2019-2020
Interior Architecture Year 3 2020-2021
Interior Architecture Year 3 2021-2022
Interior Architecture Year 3 2022-2023
Interior Architecture Year 3 2023-2024
Interior Architecture Year 3 2024-2025
